Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has pledged to take tougher measures against the misuse of political funds after he ...

Matthews was a surprise omission from the original squad due to his fine try-scoring form for Glasgow Warriors in recent months. Max Williamson and Jack Dempsey have been ruled out with hand and ...

The UK will feel chillier this week thanks to clearer skies, the Met Office has said. Gloomy weather produced above-average temperatures of 13C to 15C in many parts of the country during the start of ...

Defence Secretary John Healey has been challenged to press the Prime Minister to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP if the UK’s threat levels are found to have risen. The Government’s Strategic ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr was in the region to inspect the damage from the last storm and help distribute food.

The health of 11 million children in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is in danger because of air pollution, the UN children’s agency has warned. Toxic smog has shrouded Pakistan’s cultural capital ...

Home workers save an average of 56 minutes a day from not commuting, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This frees time for them to get 24 more minutes of “sleep and rest” and 15 ...

The NHS’s backlog of care would not be as bad if the government had given it permission to expand the number of hospital beds in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the health service has ...

A joke and magic shop which claims to be the oldest in the world has closed after 138 years. Tam Shepherds Trick Shop has been a Glasgow institution since 1886. The shop drew in generations of ...

The Kremlin has rejected reports that President Vladimir Putin spoke last week with President-elect Donald Trump about the war in Ukraine. A spokesman for Mr Trump refused to comment on what he called ...

But the heart of the project is the creation of a digital twin of St Peter’s Basilica through advanced photogrammetry and AI that allows anyone to “visit” the church and learn about its history.

Pensioners face having to fill in a 243-question application to claim pension credit, which will unlock winter fuel payments of up to £300.