The charity Mencap is celebrating its 80th birthday, a milestone for the UK’s leading charity which supports people with learning disabilities, as well as their families. But new research shows the ...

Alongside the UN general assembly climate summit, it’s also New York’s annual Climate Week. Many of the world leaders here are reeling from the impact of a year of extreme heat and record floods and ...

The UK says it has put a series of multi million payments to Mauritius on hold while it reviews the agreement to transfer ...

The number of drug deaths in Scotland rose by 11% last year – with 1,133 deaths related to illicit substances. It’s more than ...

Ahead of the UN’s scheduled climate discussion, we spoke to the UK’s special representative for climate Rachel Kyte.

Sandie Peggie is now at the centre of a second employment tribunal – accusing the Royal College of Nursing of failing to ...

But she’s facing a challenge from Green party leader Zack Polanski, who’s hoping to transform his national profile into a ...

The home secretary has said it is “unacceptable” that two boats carrying migrants across the Channel managed to reach Kent without being intercepted. Shabana Mahmood said she had ordered an urgent ...

All this as the Kyiv skyline was shrouded by smoke after Russia bombarded the city centre during the busy morning rush hour.

We spoke to David Miliband, who’s head of the International Rescue Committee and served as foreign secretary under Gordon Brown. We put it to him that, as President Macron had said, international ...

We spoke to the Latvian president Edgars Rinkēvičs, and amid the latest pronouncements from President Trump we asked him what ...

They discuss the threat posed by Russia to the UK, the role of tech platforms and whether the new unit could risk the ...