Authorities in India’s capital have shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city on Monday after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said that “funding arrangements will be set out by the end of the year” amid concern about the impact of national insurance changes announced at the Budget on ...

Australian senators have voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at the King during a reception in Parliament House. The censure of independent Senator Lidia Thorpe is a symbolic gesture ...

A neighbour of Harshita Brella has revealed she heard two blistering rows, one involving a woman who “sounded scared”, in the days before the 24-year-old’s body was discovered in the boot of a car in ...

A PARISH council has made energy-saving efficiencies to its historic village hall thanks to a grant worth more than £40,000. The project, at White Colne Village Hall, has seen the installation of 30 ...

Rebecca Hall leads the cast of the new BBC drama The Listeners, which is based on the Jordan Tannahill novel of the same name. A synopsis of the series states: "English teacher Claire's life is ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has renewed his call for a “limitless” expansion of his military nuclear programme to counter US-led threats. His comments, reported on Monday, were his first direct ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said “we need to double down” on support for Ukraine as it was reported Joe Biden has given the green light to Kyiv to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike inside Russia.

China’s economy is obviously the second biggest in the world … I will be having serious pragmatic discussions with the president when I ...

Survivors of the 2004 Boxing Day Indian Ocean tsunami described how they were “fighting for our lives” on the day, ahead of the release of a new documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the ...

The Foreign Secretary will arrive at the UN in New York on Monday during the UK’s presidency of the UN Security Council.

Artem Horchuck and Yehor Kremnov, both six, became friends after joining their local Squirrels group in Gosport, Hampshire.