The Taliban’s rule, especially bans affecting women and girls, has triggered widespread condemnation and deepened their international isolation.

Latitude Festival's poetry competition for young writers is expanding across East Anglia in 2025. The contest, which was first launched in 2024 with BBC Radio Suffolk, will now also include BBC Radio ...

The trip was the latest example of how he has mostly limited travel early in his new term to trips built around sports events.

Stephen Lawrence’s father has urged one of his son’s killers to name the others involved after reports suggest David Norris accepted his part in assaulting the teenager.

The election will take place against the backdrop of a trade war and sovereignty threats from US President Donald Trump.

The papers on Sunday are led by a variety of political stories. The Daily Telegraph reports Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to order the civil service to save £2 billion per year, putting thousands of ...

Rachel Reeves has ruled out raising taxes in next week’s Spring Statement. The Chancellor has repeatedly said she will not budge from her fiscal rules, which rule out borrowing to fund day-to-day ...

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has ordered the National Energy System Operator to “urgently investigate” the power outage caused by a substation fire, and is working with Ofgem and using powers under ...

The funding aims to train up to 60,000 engineers, bricklayers, electricians and carpenters by 2029 to tackle skills shortages.

Her comments reveal the Tories’ ‘disdainful thinking’, the Lib Dem leader will say in a speech to his party’s spring conference.

Moves by the Government to challenge a ruling that SAS soldiers were not justified in killing four IRA members in a 1992 ambush are “disgraceful”, according to Sinn Fein. Last month, coroner Mr ...

The civil service will be told to slash more than £2 billion a year from its budget by the end of the decade as part of the Government’s spending review. The Cabinet Office will tell departments to ...