A fresh evacuation order has been issued warning people to flee an area close to the Palisades fire – because of an immediate threat to life. Fire chiefs said the blaze grew by another thousand acres ...

The chancellor Rachel Reeves has defended her decision to travel to China amid market turbulence back home. She has promised to “take action” to meet her fiscal rules – but back here the shadow ...

For the first time in its 131 year history, the Bar Council which represents barristers in England and Wales has appointed ...

We spoke to the Labour MP Liam Byrne, who’s chair of the Business and Trade committee and author of a book called Turning to ...

A public inquiry has heard that Afghans killed by special forces members were described dismissively as being “flat-packed” by soldiers who seemed “beyond reproach”. Documents have been released by ...

Banditry is booming in Nigeria, with thousands kidnapped last year. The mass abduction of schoolchildren is a terrifyingly ...

It didn’t take long for the political blame game to start over the fires – Donald Trump using them to resume his long-running ...

Two years ago Netflix took up what it called the “true-ish” story of Burnley businessman, Dave Fishwick. In the film ‘Bank of ...

Temperatures dropped to minus 14.6 Celsius in the Highlands. And the owner of British Gas is now warning that UK gas stores are at “concerningly low” levels.

Nicolas Maduro has been sworn in for a third term as Venezuela’s President, six months after an election he’s widely believed to have stolen.

Glasgow’s facility is a UK first, but there are more than 100 services like this operating around the world. They aim to ...

The Los Angeles Police Department has issued a new evacuation order after another fire has started in Granada Hills.