The local election results earlier this month left 10 councils under no overall control, leading to weeks of uncertainty about their political direction. Now all 10 have confirmed their leadership and ...

Former prime minister Boris Johnson favoured an “authoritarian approach” to punishing people who failed to isolate during the pandemic, the Covid-19 Inquiry has heard. Policymakers also preferred ...

A woman accused of murdering her husband lost her composure in an argument about his girlfriend’s alleged pregnancy before she found him “swollen” and looking “purply” at her back door, she has told a ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signed an agreement to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in a deal that could cost taxpayers tens of billions of pounds. In a treaty to “complete the ...

Rapper Kid Cudi claimed that Sean “Diddy” Combs broke into his Hollywood Hills home in 2011 after finding out he was dating Combs’s ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, and that someone set fire to ...

The US Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out, a Treasury Department official confirmed on Thursday. Stopping penny production is ...

A charity that supports families and children suffering from food poverty is calling for donations for its summer programme. Caring Cooks of Jersey is aiming to raise £10,000 to fund its Holiday ...

Gerry Adams is seeking “very substantial” damages of at least 200,000 euro (£168,000) from the BBC, the jury in his libel action against the broadcaster has heard. However, the British public service ...

Proposals to protect the creative industries against artificial intelligence (AI) have been rejected by MPs, after Parliament heard both sectors need to succeed to grow Britain’s economy. Technology ...

The Prince of Wales dubbed a new warship a “hell of a piece of kit – screams UK power” after it was officially named by his wife. Kate pressed a button to smash an exclusive bottle of whisky into the ...

A senior Conservative MP appeared to make “offensive and insensitive” comments about the Irish potato famine, the Commons has heard. Shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith, responding to a question ...

The number of asylum applications in the UK has hit a new high, though the backlog of cases waiting for a decision has fallen to its lowest level since 2021. A total of 109,343 people applied for ...