This is the moment George Galloway is announced the winner of the Rochdale by-election in the early hours of Friday morning (1 March). Mr Galloway’s campaign team claimed early on in the night that the former Labour and Respect MP would win “comf ...

Talkshow host says she will donate all her shares ‘to eliminate any perceived conflict around her taking weight-loss medications’

Refusal by Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish leaders to approve candidates means whole recruitment process may have to be rerun

The largest wildfire in Texas history has killed two people and left behind a desolate landscape of scorched prairie, dead cattle and burned-out homes in the Texas Panhandle

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watch live as Joe Biden makes an election-year visit to the US-Mexico border on Thursday 29 February.

Gwent police officers being investigated after incident in which three friends died and two others were trapped for almost 48 hours

watch the moment an English local council meeting descends into chaos as pro-Palestine protesters stage a demonstration before scuffles erupt. A Torycouncillor is heard shouting: “It’s Chorley, not bloody Gaza, get out!” after activist Jenny Hu ...

Labour accuses government of ‘trying to hide shameful information’ after thirteen reports from former chief inspector published at all once

watch live as the trial of Alec Baldwin’s Rust armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, continues on Thursday, 29 February.

watch live as Lloyd Austin testifies before Congress on Thursday, 29 February, about his failure to disclose his cancer diagnosis and subsequent hospitalisations, including to Joe Biden.

watch as a rescuer rappels down a deep well to save a trapped python in Thailand. Footage shows the handler hanging on a safety rope tied to a car before being pulled up with the snake in the province of Uttaradit. As he emerges from the well, anothe ...

watch as the trial of Rust armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed continues on Wednesday, 28 February.

The housing secretary is being probed under a section of the code of conduct that members shall ‘always be open and frank’ in disclosing financial interests

Vladimir Putin has threatened to use nuclear weapons on the West. In his State of the Nation Address on Thursday (29 February), the Russian President said: “They, Nato and America, are active in other parts of the world, of course, and they continu ...

Inquiry into housing secretary’s register of financial interests comes week after Guardian report over football hospitality

A US Navy supercarrier catapulted vehicles into a river to test its catapults, a new video shows. Footage released by shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) shows wheeled car-like structures weighing up to 80,000lbs being launched i ...

Moldova’s pro-European government dismissed Transnistria’s Pro-Russian event as propaganda

David Neal, who was fired for allegedly disclosing immigration failings at City Airport to the media, has urged James Cleverly to replace him to ensure proper scrutiny in Home Office

watchdog says ministers reclassified £1.7bn of existing aid but may still miss promises to poorer countries