NHS leaders have warned that the peak of the flu cycle has not yet hit, with February and March potentially worse for the health service.

Head coach Jon Lewis insisted England would be ready for the start of the Women’s Ashes this weekend, despite their only warm-up game being abandoned. After several rain delays, the match against an ...

Eighteen assailants died and six were in custody, with one soldier killed and three wounded, after an attack on Chad’s presidential palace, state media have reported. The attack on Wednesday night ...

Taiwan demonstrated its sea defences against a potential Chinese attack on Thursday as tensions rise with Beijing, part of a multi-tiered strategy to deter an invasion from the mainland.

Shamima Begum will not be returning to the UK, David Lammy said following calls from Donald Trump’s incoming counter-terrorism chief for the repatriation of British members of so-called Islamic State ...

The royal family has wished the Princess of Wales a happy 43rd birthday. Future queen Kate is celebrating at home in Windsor, with the Prince of Wales and Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince ...

Mr Lammy told the BBC that he believes Mr Trump’s comments earlier in the week about Greenland come from his concerns about US economic security.

The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) said capitalised major repairs – which include long-term refurbishments such as replacing a roof or stripping cladding from a building – rose by just under a ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, will be honoured on Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National ...

Yields on government bonds – which reflect the cost of government borrowing – continued to rise, up eight basis points to 4.89 for 10-year gilts, which is the highest since 2008. The cost of ...

Two lynx which were illegally released in the Scottish Highlands have been successfully captured – with experts warning the creatures could have died if they had remained in the wild.

The UK’s biggest supermarket chain reported UK and Ireland like-for-like sales, excluding fuel and VAT, up 3.7 over the six weeks to January 4.