Electoral Commission chairman John Pullinger warned that the ‘very, very tight’ rules risk excluding certain voter groups at this year’s general election

watch live as Nikki Haley speaks at a 2024 presidential campaign event in Salem on Monday, 22 January, ahead of the New Hampshire primary.

Rishi Sunak’s controversial Rwanda asylum bill has suffered its first defeat in the House of Lords. The unelected chamber sought to delay a treaty with the east African nation that paves the way for the divisive deportation scheme with a defeat bac ...

Former president remains favoured but faces a closer rival in Nikki Haley

watch live as peers in the House of Lords debate Rishi Sunak's flagship Rwanda asylum policy on Monday, 22 January, after the prime minister won a key Commons vote last week.

watch a live view of Manhattan court as Donald Trump’s defamation trial continues on Monday (22 January).Mr Trump is due back in court in New York today for the resumption of his E Jean Carroll defamation trial.

Tommy Robinson arrives at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Monday (22 January) accused of allegedly refusing to leave a march against antisemitism. The far-right figure, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley Lennon, was filmed outside court ahead of a h ...

This month the moon will sit directly below two bright stars in the constellation of Gemini

watch as rescuers drill a hole in the wall of a house to save a trapped kitten. Footage shows the team searching for the exact spot where the cat had been stuck, before using a power tool to extract the ginger feline. The rescue happened in Chonburi, ...

watch the moment two Royal Navy warships crash at a harbour in Bahrain. The navy is investigating after HMS Chiddingfold was seen reversing into fellow minehunter HMS Bangor. Together they form two-thirds of Operation Kipion, the UK’s permanent na ...

With the IDF now routinely using armed drones to watch and target militants, the worst wave of violence for almost 20 years is sweeping the West Bank

watch as mourners arrive for the funeral of Kids Company charity founder Camila Batmanghelidjh on Saturday 20 January. The Iranian-born social justice campaigner founded the charity in 1996 to support vulnerable children and young people in London an ...

watch live as protesters gather in Madrid, Spain, to call for a Gaza ceasefire, as they mark 100 days since the start of a conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

watch the moment a human smuggler who took cash for small boat crossings is arrested. An east London man who laundered money for networks involved in Channel crossings has been found guilty following a National Crime Agency investigation. Asghar Ghes ...

A cruise trip advertised as the longest in the world has become its own reality show, with passengers regularly going viral for their video diaries. But is anything actually … happening?

watch as Antony Blinken speaks at the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) on Friday, 19 January, at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC.

watch live as Pete Buttigieg speaks at the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) on Friday, 19 January, at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington, DC.

watch as they stab themselves in the back and shoot themselves in the foot over the Rwanda policy, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Police seized 74 sets of an alleged drug trafficker’s prized Lego collection during a raid in Melbourne, Australia, on Wednesday (17 January). During the raid, officers also seized more than AU$600,000 worth of 1,4-Butanediol - a chemical that mirr ...

Comes as ‘rapid review’ launched and police watchdog investigates after two-year-old reportedly starved to death having been left alone for days when his father suffered fatal heart attack