The NHS maintained care for an estimated 10,000 more patients during the latest doctors’ strike compared with last year’s industrial action. Early data shows that 93% of planned operations, tests and ...

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has also said she plans to introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog.

Countries are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, where they will hope to break a deadlock in talks for a legally binding agreement on plastics.

Rescue teams have found a body inside a section of a copper mine in Chile that collapsed two days earlier during a moderate earthquake, the mine’s director said on Saturday. Rescuers have been trying ...

Kemi Badenoch has said Rachel Reeves is making “even bigger mistakes” than Liz Truss. The Tory leader hit out at the Chancellor and the Prime Minister for their economic decisions as she drew a ...

The Home Secretary plans to introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle the asylum backlog that aims to turn around decisions within weeks. Yvette Cooper said Labour was planning a “major overhaul” of the ...

A watchdog has appointed interim managers to take over the running of an animal charity linked to Boris Johnson’s wife. The Aspinall Foundation is facing an investigation by the Charity Commission ...

“The only clear and enforceable plan is the Conservative Deportation Bill, a no-nonsense strategy that allows us to detain illegal arrivals immediately and remove them without delay. The British ...

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested England’s Lionesses will receive honours after their dramatic Euro 2025 victory, declaring: “Recognition is coming.” The Lionesses became back-to-back European champions ...

There was no jackpot winner in Saturday’s National Lottery Lotto draw, meaning Wednesday’s top prize is an estimated £5.3 million. The winning Lotto numbers were 01, 05, 10, 30, 33, 50, and the bonus ...

Russell Martin spoke scathingly about “egos” and “self-preservation” among his players after Rangers dropped two points at Motherwell on the opening day of the William Hill Premiership campaign.

The minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls said the country has been reliant on the charity of women for years.