Dror Or, a 49-year-old held captive in Gaza, has died

Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in Friday, piling pressure on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ahead of a U.K. general election in which the main opposition Labour Party appears increasingly ...

Readers didn’t hold back, calling the Conservatives everything from a ‘dire smorgasbord of incompetence’ to politcial lightweights akin to ‘hydrogen balloons’

Conservative MP Jonathan Gullis was mocked by Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth as Tory councillors lost seats across the country in the local elections. Mr Ashworth goaded the Tory deputy chairman during the BBC’s local election results programme ...

This is the moment Labour was announced victorious in the Blackpool South parliamentary by-election on Friday (3 May). In the contest triggered by the resignation of former Tory MP Scott Benton following a lobbying scandal, Labour’s Chris Webb secu ...

Leading pollster says Tories could be set to lose around 500 seats in worst local local elections result in 40 years

‘It is their decision about how to use these weapons,’ foreign secretary says

Baroness Warsi said party must learn from its West Midlands mayor Andy Street on ‘how inclusive and decent politics can be done’

 

Ex-central banker Lady Shafik, the university’s president, now faces calls to resign due to her handling of campus unrest

Indonesian scientists document extraordinary case of Rakus the Sumatran orangutan, who covers his facial wound with mesh made from chewed leaves

It’s a dilemma no business owner should have to face: whether to reopen after a mass shooting

ukrainian troops are battling to build stronger defences as Russian advances plough through

Man admitted carrying the concealed creatures, with the incident spawning jokes across social media

Family praises 14-year-old as a ‘wonderful child’ as stabbing suspect Marcus Monzo appears in court

Despite finishing narrowly ahead of Reform uk in Blackpool South, the Conservatives were beaten Nigel Farage’s party in 16 of the 25 seats up for grabs on Sunderland City Council

Sir Keir Starmer said Labour’s win in Blackpool South was ‘truly historic’ and the ‘most important result’ nationally

Civil servant Josie Stewart spoke to media after government presented ‘dishonest account’, tribunal told

ukraine’s athletes have been urged by their Olympic chiefs not to have any contact with their Russian and Belarusian counterparts at the Paris Games

ukraine, trade and investment are expected to dominate Chinese leader Xi Jinping's first trip to Europe in five years, which starts in France on Monday