Houston died on Monday morning in her New Jersey home while under hospice care for Alzheimer’s disease, her family said.

The mother of the sole British hostage still in Gaza a year after she was taken by Hamas has pleaded for her safe return, saying: “I need her back with me now, alive, before it is too late for her.” ...

Police Scotland has launched a murder probe after the death of a 38-year-old man. On Sunday at around 7.35pm, David Graham, from Cambuslang, was walking alone at the General’s Gate area of Uddingston, ...

Conservative Party leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat repeatedly shouted “not true” as Mr Lammy set out the reasons behind the Government’s decision to relinquish sovereignty over the Chagos Islands, ...

Politicians should “cut all the flim-flam” and drop rhetoric which is “damaging public confidence” in the NHS, Victoria Atkins has warned. In a Commons debate about Lord Darzi’s NHS investigation, the ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested that migrants who are in the US and have committed murder did so because “it’s in their genes”. There are, he added, “a lot of bad genes in ...

The Lower Thames Crossing proposal is aimed at reducing congestion on the Dartford Crossing with a new motorway-style road.

Mary Lou McDonald has announced a “complete overhaul” of Sinn Fein’s governance procedures as she apologised for the party’s handling of a sex crime investigation into one of its former press officers ...

A small crowd gathered outside the Auberge de Castille, the prime minister’s office in the capital, in anticipation of the royal arrival.

The North African country’s Independent High Authority for Elections said on Monday evening that Mr Saied had won 90.7 of the vote.

The public inquiry heard he swapped 1,355 Facebook messages with the nurse in a three-month period when they worked together.

Four pupils are being treated in hospital after a school bus overturned in Northern Ireland. The mother of one of the children on the double-decker told how pupils were left screaming in fear after ...