Across the UK, 29,356 new homes were registered to be built in the first quarter of this year, which was a 36% increase on the same quarter in 2024 and 17% more than in the fourth quarter of 2024, the ...

Tom Cruise has been honoured with the British Film Institute’s most prestigious accolade, a BFI fellowship, describing the prize as “absolutely extraordinary”.

Australia’s cabinet was sworn into office on Tuesday after the centre-left Labor Party was re-elected in a landslide. With vote counting continuing, Labor expects to hold between 92 and 95 seats in ...

Three Belgian soldiers have been injured in a training exercise in Scotland, Belgium’s prime minister said. Belgium’s defence ministry told the BBC that two of the soldiers were in a stable condition, ...

No wire service reporters, who supply reports to news outlets around the world, were on the plane to the Middle East with President Trump.

Researchers said the discovery could save ‘vast numbers of lives’ by enabling pre-emptive treatment of the condition.

They have placed their hopes for Tuesday’s semi-final in Basel, Switzerland, on 21-year-old singer Claude Kiambe.

Holyrood will vote this evening on the general principles of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill – with a majority of MSPs needing to back the legislation if it is to continue ...

In the Commons, Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement has also drawn attacks from across the political spectrum. Labour backbenchers criticised the language Sir Keir used to announce the plans, particularly ...

The Royal College of Nursing has called for ‘urgent and sustained’ investment in community services to ensure patients get timely care.

Fighters with the so-called Islamic State (IS) group who returned to the UK after killings, terror attacks and persecution of minorities in Iraq and Syria must face justice, a committee of MPs and ...