Wednesday’s ballot of MPs will select the final two candidates to go forward to a vote of the party membership.

Milton is forecast to cross central Florida and to dump as much as 46 centimetres of rain while heading toward the Atlantic Ocean, according to the hurricane centre. That path would largely spare ...

Scientists say their study shows how animals are displaying a similar response to how humans react to a set-back ...

Flood alerts are in place across England amid warnings that thunderstorms and heavy rain will cause travel disruption. There were more than 70 alerts cautioning of possible flooding on Tuesday evening ...

The 40-mile-long motorway was ranked last in a survey of more than 9,166 road users conducted by watchdog Transport Focus.

Pakistani police have charged the country’s imprisoned former prime minister, Imran Khan, with attempted murder, over the ...

New Government child protection figures were described as ‘disturbing’ amid a financial crisis in local government.

Iwao Hakamada was sentenced to death for the murders of four people in 1966 but was not executed, due to Japan’s lengthy ...

Some 68,265,200 people were likely to have been resident in the UK in the middle of last year, up 662,400 from 67,602,800 12 ...

Research by anti-poverty charity Trussell found 670,000 people in Scotland have fallen well below the poverty line, including 170,000 children.

The First Minister will tell a renewables conference how the North East of Scotland must be “the powerhouse of the renewables revolution”. John Swinney will speak on Wednesday at the Scottish ...