Left-wing councils were waiting for a Labour government to turn the money back on, but help isn’t coming. So what now?

Residents tell of anger over government's plans to flood villages to build reservoir to increase water for the canal ...

Nigel Farage’s party now has the resources and momentum to capitalise on mass disillusionment with both major parties ...

Growing up, Anna* always knew she was a lesbian. She also knew that her life would be at risk if anybody found out. Anna lived in Georgia, where she says “most [people] are homophobic”.

Women who call police to help deal with abusive partners are being criminalised for assaulting emergency workers ...

Research reveals the business of Channel security is booming, as companies profit off asylum seekers’ desperation ...

This week we turn to South Africa, one of the countries and territories that have particularly been in President Trump’s crosshairs - like Mexico, China, Greenland - since he took office.

At a Welsh Affairs Committee hearing last December, Lord Timpson read a list of 17 names. They were, the prisons minister explained, “all people who went in there [to HMP Parc] to serve their ...

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When Nigel Farage took to the stage at Reform’s local election campaign launch in Birmingham last month, he was clutching the cab of a JCB Pothole Pro – an innovation of the construction ...

More than 5,600 mass graves have been found in Mexico since 2007, and there are more than 72,000 unidentified bodies in the country’s morgues, while 127,000 people are reported missing.

Although Donald Trump is thoroughly unpredictable on many issues, his support for Israel’s government remains firm for now, allowing Binyamin Netanyahu to continue with the devastating war in Gaza.