The Home Office has abandoned plans to move a group of asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm barge in the wake of protests.

Los Angeles police have begun removing barricades at a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ encampment on the UCLA campus. The move ...

The results of Thursday’s elections are being declared over several days, starting shortly after polls close and ending on ...

United Methodist delegates in the US repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBT clergy with no debate on Wednesday, ...

John Swinney could become Scotland’s first minister as early as next week after the woman who would have been his main rival for the job announced she will not be running. Hours after Mr Swinney ...

A charity founder is set to run to every Premier League football stadium in England to fundraise for the construction of ...

A Conservative MP has said his dyspraxia caused him to misplace his photo ID, forcing him to arrange an emergency proxy vote for Thursday’s local elections. Tom Hunt, who represents Ipswich, warned ...

Tom Hunt said his dyspraxia caused him to misplace his photo ID and warned people against ‘persecuting’ him online.

A huge rolling storm battered the south of England and South Wales, with a warning in place until 8am on Thursday, while a warning in south-east England was extended to 10am. The Met Office said ...

British troops should be sent to Bosnia amid risks of destabilisation in the Balkans, a former United Nations commander has argued. Independent MP Bob Stewart told the Commons a British battalion ...

Japanese investigators have concluded that a collision during a night-time drill caused a deadly crash involving two Japanese navy SH-60K Seahawk helicopters last month, the country’s defence minister ...

Voters in Cambridge used the back of a car as a polling station as staff had problems getting into the library building they had planned to use. Polling teams “remained calm and carried on” when they ...