NHS England has published its latest monthly performance data for hospitals, along with this week’s snapshot of winter virus ...

Mozambique’s main opposition leader has returned from self-imposed exile saying he still rejects the results of a disputed ...

Taiwan demonstrated its sea defences against a potential Chinese attack on Thursday as tensions rise with Beijing, part of a ...

The National Gallery’s Van Gogh: Poets And Lovers exhibition is to open for 24 hours during its final weekend. The display ...

The US president was scheduled to leave for Italy after giving the eulogy for former president Jimmy Carter at his funeral in ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, will be honoured ...

The Government will do “whatever it takes” to clamp down on the use of ketamine, a Cabinet minister has told MPs. Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell said many members see the “real, dangerous ...

The number of pupils in England off school without permission increased ahead of the Christmas holidays, figures suggest. Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows that the unauthorised ...

The leading candidate is Lebanese army commander Joseph Aoun, no relation to the former president. He is widely seen as the ...

The yield on gilts is a proxy for the effective interest rate on public borrowing – meaning that rising yields equal higher borrowing costs.

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt ...

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry.