From Hartlepool to Bristol, successes in 2 May’s polls will set the tone for the impending Westminster race

As Luca Guadagnino’s tennis film Challengers makes its case for sporting immortality, critic Guy Lodge chooses 20 of the genre’s undisputed heavyweights

The prime minister faces a further blow to his leadership if Ben Houchen and Andy Street are both unseated in next Thursday’s contests

The announcement is another setback for Food and Drug Administration officials, who drafted the ban and predicted it would prevent hundreds of thousands of smoking-related deaths over 40 years

The Underground entrances to King's Cross Station were blocked off after reports a flare was set off

Managing the barrage of upsetting material online is a challenge that service providers are struggling to meet, even if they try

The UK is set to be hit by an 'Iberian plume' in the coming weeks

An anti-war movement is spreading on college campuses across America and beyond. Protests have been met with police violence, mass arrests and an unbending political class — all of which have only fuelled the demonstrations further. A hot summer of ...

The main parties’ strengths and vulnerabilities will be starkly on show in the capital, the West Midlands, Tees Valley, the north-east and Dorset

An anti-war movement is spreading on college campuses across America and beyond. Protests have been met with police violence, mass arrests and an unbending political class — all of which have only fuelled the demonstrations further. A hot summer of ...

A former Post Office executive was condemned for using “word soup” jargon by a frustrated barrister during the Horizon IT inquiry on Friday 26 April. On her second day of giving evidence, Angela van den Bogerd was asked about the cases of several ...

Some really grim weather is set to ring in May

Sriram Ambarla armed himself with a knife and set out to murder his ex-girlfriend after she repeatedly told him their relationship was over - she survived only by 'a hair's breadth' after being stabbed nine times

The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore after being stuck in the harbour since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago. A bulk carrier, headed for Canada, passed through the new 35ft channel on ...

The first minister’s latest misstep will worsen his party’s split along culture war lines, says Dani Garavelli, a freelance journalist and Herald columnist

Philip Pullman will help choose this year’s winners of award set up in memory of the keen young writer who died aged 13 in 2021

Campaign Against Antisemitism, led by Gideon Falter, was set up by activists who felt existing groups were not doing enough

Large-language models such as ChatGPT are still liable to distort the meaning of what they are summarising, says academic seth Lazar

From Miriam being ‘revealed’ as a transgender woman to the contestants trashing the set, it was the cruellest reality show ever. Ahead of a new series about its tragic fallout, Miriam’s brother and friend open up for the first time abo ...

Humza Yousaf joked about a "breakup" with the Greens after he ended the so-called Bute House Agreement underpinning the Scottish government coalition on Thursday, 25 April. The first minister denied ending the pact because he did no ...