Laila Soueif, 68, said she will not eat again until her son, Alaa Abd El-Fattah, is released from prison in Egypt.

Members of the largest education union in the UK have voted to accept the Government’s 5.5% pay rise for teachers in England. In a National Education Union (NEU) snap poll, 95% of members who ...

Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves “sees more black holes than Mr Spock”, a Conservative leadership hopeful has claimed. Tom Tugendhat said October’s Budget could “destroy growth” in the UK and he ...

The Conservatives’ social media strategy is “10 years out of date”, according to leadership candidate Robert Jenrick. Mr Jenrick labelled the party’s strategy as “really poor” during the general ...

The assassination attempt was thwarted when a member of the Secret Service protective detail spotted Routh’s rifle barrel.

A New Mexico judge has upheld an involuntary manslaughter conviction against a movie armourer in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film Rust.

The UK Government is doing “everything we can” to help Britons flee Lebanon, Downing Street has said. Foreign Secretary David Lammy chaired a ministerial meeting of the Cobra emergency committee on ...

Prisons minister Lord James Timpson said violence and illicit drug use at HMP Rochester were at ‘dangerously high levels’.

Emergency searches have been carried out for a person in distress. Coastguard crews from West Bay were called following concerns that a person seemed to be in a state of distress under Burton Cliffs ...

The court in London was previously told the four companies would be likely to enter administration if the plans were not approved.

Italian police have arrested 19 people, accused of criminal ties with the powerful ‘Ndrangheta mafia group, in a move that decimated the fan clubs backing Serie A teams Inter Milan and AC Milan.

Mount Everest is around 15 to 50 metres taller than it would otherwise be because of a river that is pushing it up, research suggests. The nearby river is cutting into the landscape around the ...