In his second cabinet in just over a month, Mr Ishiba reappointed most of its previous members, including foreign minister ...

Experts from Canada, where assisted dying is legal, have given evidence to a committee of MSPs examining proposed legislation to legalise the practice in Scotland. The Assisted Dying for Terminally ...

Dame Sally Davies emailed then-cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood days after the Skripals were poisoned, describing her meeting with the minister.

A 59-year-old man died after he was kicked in the face by a man angry that he was smoking drugs in the stairwell of a block of flats in ...

A vote is mandatory following an election, and Mr Ishiba is expected to be re-elected in a runoff against the opposition ...

Jonny Huntington, who suffered a brain bleed in 2014, is aiming to become the first disabled person to succeed in this ...

Tam Shepherds Trick Shop is to become an online business only because of the redevelopment of the premises it is in.

Defence Secretary John Healey has been challenged to press the Prime Minister to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP if the UK’s threat levels are found to have risen. The Government’s Strategic ...

People who work from home spend more time sleeping and exercising than those who travel to work, a survey has found. Home workers save an average of 56 minutes a day from not commuting, according to ...

The health of 11 million children in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is in danger because of air pollution, the UN children’s agency has warned. Toxic smog has shrouded Pakistan’s cultural capital ...

The Met Office has warned gales of up to 40mph could batter parts of Norfolk, with towns and villages on the east coast set to bear the brunt.

As members of the upper chamber debated the Chancellor’s Budget, Lord Dobbs suggested some workers are ‘luckier than others’.