Mitch McConnell, the longest-serving Senate leader in history, has announced he will step down from the position in November. The 82-year-old confirmed his decision on Wednesday 28 February and addressed the chamber. “As I have been thinking about ...

A heated argument broke out between restaurant-goers in Austin, Texas as an angry woman ripped into a 27-year-old mother for bringing her child to the bar. “Get your baby out of the bar, why would you do this to the poor kid?” she is filmed ...

Footage shows the moment a mystery character stepped out from behind a mirror and scared children at a Willy Wonka-inspired experience in Glasgow. In the video, a creepy figure wearing a silver mask moves in front of families as they make their way t ...

watch live as Rishi Sunak faces Sir Keir Starmer in Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday 28 February.

watch live as Alexei Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnya speaks at the European Parliament on Wednesday, 28 February, following her husband’s death.

watch as Scott Morrison plays a game of “Taylor Swift bingo” at the request of his two daughters, Abbey and Lily, by filling his farewell speech with the singer’s albums. The former Australian prime minister is retiring from politics a ...

Join Rob Smyth for all the latest updates from the FA Cup last-16 ties

watch live as Emmanuel Macron hosts a state dinner for Qatar’s ruling emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani at the Elysee Palace on Tuesday 27 February.

watch as the trial of Alec Baldwin’s Rustarmourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, continues on Tuesday, 27 February.

Peter Faulding and his Specialist Group International (SGI) colleagues joined the search for two-year-old Xielo Maruziva in Aylestone, Leicester, on Tuesday (27 February), more than a week after he fell into the River Soar while out with his family. ...

Queen Camilla attended a memorial service for the late King Constantine of Greece at Windsor Castle today (27 February), as the Prince of Wales was forced to pull out due to a “personal matter”. Camilla smiled as she arrived at Windsor Cast ...

watch the moment an out-of-control pickup truck crashed through a shop kitchen and narrowly missed a cook. CCTV footage shows the vehicle slamming open the gates, which was only two steps away from the worker carrying vegetables in Rayong, Thailand. ...

Nick Ferrari cut a Tory minister’s interview short after he refused to say whether Lee Anderson’s comments about Sadiq Khan were Islamophobic. The Ashfield MP received widespread criticism and had the Tory whip suspended after claiming the London ...

watch live as witnesses, including Alan Bates and ex-Post Office chairman Henry Staunton, appear before the inquiry on Tuesday, 27 February.

According to a report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen by The Associated Press Iran has further increased its total stockpile of uranium and continues to bar several of the most experienced inspectors from monitoring its nuclear program

watch live as farmers protest in their tractors against EU policies at a demonstration in Brussels on Monday, 26 February, as EU agriculture ministers meet to discuss responses to the current crisis in the sector.

watchdog says there is need for ‘significant intervention’ over supply and quality of new homes

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as CMA finds fundamental concerns after studying Great Britain’s housebuilding market

As a child, he lived in fear of his stepfather and watched the abusive men in his church defend one another. The Oscar-winning screenwriter discusses the role of religion in his new TV drama, life with his husband Tom Daley – and why the UK gove ...

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