Chancellor’s visit to EU meeting looks for smoother trade to improve growth but youth mobility scheme remains sticking point

As flooding worsens, the swamp is submerging villages, ruining farmland and killing livestock

Suchir Balaji, who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials

The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands off the coast of the two countries

It comes just days after Sir Keir Starmer hit out at the ‘dangers’ of tariffs, putting the prime minister on a collision course with incoming US president

Exclusive: Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been in prison in Egypt for more than 10 years on charges the United Nations says are unjust

As a US citizen, Mr Musk cannot legally make a personal donation to a UK political party, but he could do so through the UK subsidiaries of his companies

Charity directors praise ‘generous contributions’ given to support victims of conflict and war

Exclusive: unions could back legal action against firms such as Harrods that levy a charge that is not passed on to staff

The long-awaited return of Ruth Jones and James Corden’s hit BBC sitcom represents the latest in a long line of successful creative duos. An author who writes with her husband examines why partnerships work so well

Police would like to speak to anyone who witnessed an earlier argument between the two groups inside a pub

The 56-year-old presenter will replace telly favourite Angela Rippon on Rip Off Britain, teaming up with Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville for the new series

Nigeal Andall fears North London would lose an essential service if he was to close

While the rules can be strict and firm, the vast majority of children are well-adjusted, happy and well-cared for

In choosing the UK’s new ambassador, Keir Starmer is gambling that the rewards will justify the risks

Last week’s photo op with the Reform leader and X owner was further evidence of the UK’s inevitable march towards the far right. Merry Christmas!

Workers in family-run businesses earn less on average and have fewer opportunities to progress into senior jobs

Far-right protesters gathered in the German city of Magdeburg after five people - including a child - were killed in an attack on a Christmas market. Around 1,000 people congregated in the city of Magdeburg on Saturday night (21 December), after misi ...

They have formally acknowledged the country’s republican system of government, some 50 years after the monarchy was abolished

Pope Francis condemns killing of children in Gaza as ‘cruelty, not war’