Current and former officials at the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) say staffers ...

Scotland kick off their Guinness Six Nations campaign at home to Italy on Saturday. Here, the PA news agency takes a look at five talking points ahead of the Murrayfield showdown.

Dan Skelton hailed John Hales as “a great man for our sport and all horse sports” after the leading owner died at the age of 85. Hales has seen several top-class National Hunt performers carry his ...

England suffered more torment at the Women’s Ashes as they dropped seven catches to allow a dominant Australia to assume total control of the day/night Test in Melbourne. The ignominy of a 16-0 clean ...

One lucky ticket holder has not yet claimed the £83,474,081 jackpot prize from the EuroMillions draw on Friday January 24.

Hamas has released the names of three male hostages set to be released on Saturday. The list includes Yarden Bibas, 35, Keith Siegel, 65, and Ofer Kalderon, 54, Israeli officials confirmed, speaking ...

The policing minister said she was aware of the “cost pressure” on police the XL bully ban had caused and wants to make sure forces get the funding to enforce it. Police chiefs have warned that ...

South Woodford Islamic Centre raised £5,000 for Woodford Green’s Haven House Children’s Hospice, caring for young people with life-limiting ...

Chelsea agreed a world-record deal to sign USA defender Naomi Girma for around £900,000 and also signed Keira Walsh from Barcelona on deadline day.

It comes after the National Audit Office warned the Home Office had ‘historically underspent’ funding allocated to tackle the issue.

Another runner-up effort at Cheltenham in the autumn continued the Surrey Racing-owned gelding’s progress in the staying division and he now attempts to bounce back from a minor blip at Newbury over ...

Police forces need to make decisions locally on how many officers to have, a minister has said after some warned of funding pressures. Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson said she was “not pretending ...