The 41-day shutdown could last a few more days as members of the House, which has been on recess since mid-September, return to Washington.

Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after causing floods and landslides, knocking out power ...

A High Court judge is to rule on whether an Essex council is successful in its bid for an injunction that would block asylum seekers being housed in a hotel. Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) is ...

Catherine Connolly will be inaugurated as Ireland’s 10th president on Tuesday at a ceremony at Dublin Castle. The independent TD from Galway, who is a former psychologist and barrister, has pledged to ...

Lawyers for several high-profile people, including the Duke of Sussex, and lawyers for the publisher of the Daily Mail have accused each other’s legal teams of “drip-feeding” disclosure ahead of their ...

Remembrance services and events are set to take place around Scotland to mark Armistice Day. At Edinburgh Garden of Remembrance at the Scott Monument within Princes St Gardens, Lord Provost Robert ...

BBC chairman Samir Shah apologised for an ‘error of judgment’ over the editing of a speech by Donald Trump for Panorama.

A group of 75 MPs has joined animal welfare activists in calling for the release of 15 penguins “trapped in a basement without sunlight or fresh air” at the Sea Life London Aquarium. The captivity of ...

A poll of health service leaders found 45 were extremely concerned about discrimination towards staff from patients and the public.

An independent commission also said the current definition of terrorism is too broad and creates ‘uncertainty and overreach in its application’.