NHS England has published its latest monthly performance data for hospitals, along with this week’s snapshot of winter virus ...

Mozambique’s main opposition leader has returned from self-imposed exile saying he still rejects the results of a disputed ...

The number of pupils in England off school without permission increased ahead of the Christmas holidays, figures suggest. Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows that the unauthorised ...

The yield on gilts is a proxy for the effective interest rate on public borrowing – meaning that rising yields equal higher borrowing costs.

Lebanon’s parliament has voted to elect the country’s army commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a more than two-year-long presidential vacuum. The session was the legislature’s 13th attempt ...

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry.

Plans for sanctions on the finances of people-smuggling networks will ‘prevent, combat, deter and disrupt irregular migration’, Mr Lammy said.

A celebrity osteopath who has pleaded guilty to three counts of voyeurism is under further police investigation after the discovery of more recording devices, a court has heard.

Lawyers for Liz Truss have sent a letter to Sir Keir Starmer about ‘false and defamatory public statements’ made about their client.

Shares plunged as boss Stuart Machin also cautioned of an ‘uncertain’ economic picture, taking the shine off bumper Christmas trading.

Medics have revealed how long a person can expect to live after being diagnosed with dementia. Survival rates range between two and nine years on average, the study suggests. Various factors appear to ...

Hundreds of schools have been closed across northern Scotland amid a weather warning for snow and ice which has been extended until Friday. The Met Office yellow weather warning covers Aberdeen, ...