Elon Musk is to jointly lead a new US Department of Government Efficiency that will advise President-elect Donald Trump’s White House on how to reform and make savings in the federal government. The ...

The witness told the inquiry that a sample of the nerve agent the size of ‘a third to a sixth of a grain of salt’ could be fatal to a human.

There is no “tension” between plans to make savings from limiting winter fuel allowance to the poorest pensioners and more people taking up pension credit, Liz Kendall has signalled. The winter fuel ...

Mr Scholz declared his plans for the vote of confidence one week after his three-party coalition government collapsed.

A tug capsized in less than 10 seconds with the loss of two lives because of a “breakdown of the systems that should have kept them safe”, marine investigators have found. The Biter capsized while ...

A court in Greenland again decided on Wednesday to extend the custody of anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson until December 4, while Denmark considers a Japanese extradition request. Japan does not ...

Actor Timothy West, known for many roles in television and the theatre, has died peacefully in his sleep aged 90 “with his friends and family at the end”, his family said. West, who was was married to ...

A disability rights campaigner opposed to the assisted dying bill has argued care services should be prioritised over the ...

Israel has failed to meet US demands to allow greater humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, where conditions are worse than ...

Peter Sullivan remains behind bars for the murder of Diane Sindall who was killed on her way home from work in Merseyside in 1986.

A 68-year-old man who died after a suspected assault in Newcastle has been named by police as a woman is charged with his murder. Officers received a report of a disturbance at a house on Sceptre ...

A bishop specialising in safeguarding has said other people in the Church of England might need to quit following the Archbishop of Canterbury’s resignation over an abuse scandal. Bishop of Birkenhead ...