A new 5,000-tonne destroyer key to North Korea’s naval advancement was damaged during its launching ceremony attended by leader Kim Jong Un, state media reported.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government is talking to the US about joining president Donald Trump’s future Golden Dome missile defence programme. The multilayered, 175 billion dollar ...

Those who had initially shown more “positive” ageing mindsets – such as believing that ageing was not stopping them doing what they wanted to do – appeared to have a better recovery after a fall, the ...

Rising production costs are threatening the viability of UK theatre, a report has said. The cost of running and creating theatre has soared, rising “significantly faster than inflation”, according to ...

Victims of fraud are being let down as UK policing tries to battle “21st century cyber-enabled cross-border crime” in a localised system set up in the 1960s, a report has found. Think tank the Police ...

The Prime Minister said further details will come at a ‘fiscal event’, likely to be the next budget in the autumn.

The Office for National Statistics will give its first estimate of net migration for the 12 months to December 2024.

A significant number of children are facing “catastrophic” waits for care in the community, leading children’s doctors have warned. A new report from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health ...

Improved breast screening in the UK could identify an extra 3,500 cancers per year and save hundreds of lives, researchers have said. A new trial found extra scans for some women can pick up ...

The Prime Minister is due to attend a virtual handover ceremony with Mauritian officials on Thursday, news reports suggest.

Liam Og O hAnnaidh, 27, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, was charged under the name Liam O’Hanna over the displaying of a flag in support of Hezbollah at a gig at the O2 Forum in Kentish ...