If you can work, you should,’ social security minister Sir Stephen Timms told MPs before they voted on the welfare reforms.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday and thanked him for the Vatican’s efforts to help return children taken by Russia. Both he and Leo suggested the Vatican could ...

Some victims were sent to prison or financially ruined, others were shunned by their communities, and some took their own lives.

Lord Harrington, now a non-affiliated peer, apologised for miscalculating the period he had to give notice for jobs he took up after leaving office.

The robot operated with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers in the US.

Nicholas Prosper was jailed for life with a minimum term of 49 years in March after admitting the murders of his mother and siblings.

Plumber Sean O’Meara, 36, was wearing a gas-mask and body armour when he was shot and seriously injured by a police officer on Monday night ...

A five-year-old boy who died after an allergic reaction at school was accidentally exposed to cow’s milk protein – probably from his own bottle, an inquest jury has concluded.

The European Court of Human Rights also found Russia had broken international law during the conflict in Ukraine.

Authorities said the fire was in ‘net regression’ on Wednesday morning after racing towards the historic Mediterranean port ...

Crews also in airboats, along with hundreds of volunteers, are part of one of the largest search operations in Texas history.

Contractors are “on standby” to remove a loyalist bonfire in south Belfast which has sparked concern, a Sinn Fein MLA has said. Legal action is also understood to be planned against the towering pyre ...