Great British Energy will not invest in any supply chains that involve slave labour, energy minister Michael Shanks has said, with measures to establish the state-owned energy company on the verge of ...

The driest spring so far in more than a century is continuing, the Met Office said, as some farmers hope for “substantial” rain amid drought concerns. So far this spring, 80.6mm of rain has been ...

A prison officers’ union has called for urgent action to protect guards from violence after attacks at two jails. One officer at HMP Woodhill near Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was slashed in the ...

The Justice Secretary has announced more emergency measures to curb prison overcrowding as she warned jails are on track to be down to “zero capacity” by November. Shabana Mahmood unveiled changes to ...

Crowds poured into the streets of Uruguay’s capital on Wednesday to bid a poignant farewell to former president Jose Mujica, a guerrilla fighter-turned-pioneering leader who became a hero of the Latin ...

A federal judge has ordered that a Georgetown scholar from India must be released from immigration detention after he was locked up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students.

US actor Scarlett Johansson has said filmmakers are being “muzzled” by “big tech guys”. The 40-year-old Avengers star was also critical of artificial intelligence (AI) in an interview with Vanity Fair ...

A BBC reporter has denied excluding “unhelpful comments” and contradictions to the claim that Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of a spy. Speaking in a Dublin court, Jennifer O’Leary said she took ...

A WOMAN who smuggled tens of thousands of pounds of suspected drug money out of Jersey has been jailed for one year and nine months. The Royal Court heard that 43-year-old Danielle Shields had made 15 ...

The Prince of Wales has described grief as “the very worst pain any child or parent will ever endure” as he backed the merger of two leading child bereavement charities. Child Bereavement UK, of which ...

Assisted dying Bill backers have argued “most healthcare professionals understand that the current law is not working” after a leading psychiatrists’ group said it cannot support the proposed ...

A former Metropolitan Police sergeant accused of taking upskirting images while on and off duty will appear in court on Friday. Christopher Herd, 48, was charged by Essex Police with one count of ...