Seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said, adding to ...

The tie-up, announced in May, will create a banking giant with millions of customers and about £89 billion worth of assets.

The Competition and Markets Authority said fuel margins remained higher than historic levels, and it remained concerned about weakened competition.

The prosecutions, brought by Northern Rail and TransPennine Express, were declared ‘null and void’ during a hearing at ...

The UK’s asylum system now costs £5 billion – the highest level of spending on record and up by more than a third in a year. Home Office spending on asylum rose by £1.43 billion, up 36% from £3.95 ...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission said Parliament needs adequate time to scrutinise the proposed legislation.

At least 13 people have died in eastern Uganda after landslides buried 40 homes in six villages, officials said. The Uganda Red Cross Society said 13 bodies have been recovered and the rescue effort ...

Just 42,500 applications have been approved since July, when the Government said almost 900,000 households were missing out on the benefit.

The US conservative political commentor Candace Owens has been refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials ...

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people ...

Net migration to the UK hit a higher than previously thought record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023, revised official estimates show. The measure for the difference between the number of people ...

Three-weekly black bin collections will be introduced across Cheshire East from April 2026 with one councillor saying, ‘the fact is we ...