Authorities in eastern Pakistan have closed public parks, zoos, museums, historical buildings and playgrounds for 10 days as a record-breaking “smog wave” choked 18 districts of Punjab province, ...

Universal Credit claimants will see their payments automatically increase next year, after the DWP set new benefit rates from April 2025.

Israeli football fans have been attacked after a match in Amsterdam, with five people admitted to hospital and 62 arrested, Dutch police said. It was not clear how the violence began. Dutch and ...

Asda has become the latest supermarket to warn of rising prices due to tax changes in last week’s Budget which will hit the retailer with £100 million in extra costs. Chairman Lord Stuart Rose said ...

Jonathan Powell will take over from Sir Tim Barrow in the role based in 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet Office said.

Strike action which closed schools in First Minister John Swinney’s constituency has resulted in a “credible” offer for council workers, leaders of the trade union Unison have said. Non-teaching staff ...

Irish premier Simon Harris has said that the US and EU needed each other before the US election, and continue to need each other now. He indicated that the election of US President-elect Donald Trump ...

Lidl is to mark the festive season by driving its own version of a Christmas cola truck to cities across the UK, as Coca-Cola announced the return of its own tour. The 20-metre, 15-tonne red truck ...

The competition watchdog said the market is dominated by two companies, which have ‘limited incentives’ to compete on price under existing rules.

Sir Richard Dearlove said the president-elect may put criticisms of him to one side because of his strong political mandate.

TOM Shanklin believes Ben Thomas must start at inside centre for Wales when they begin their Autumn Nations Series campaign against Fiji ...

Russia is mounting an intensified aerial campaign that Ukrainian officials say they need more Western help to counter — even as doubts deepen over what Kyiv can expect from a ne ...