In his second cabinet in just over a month, Mr Ishiba reappointed most of its previous members, including foreign minister ...

The NHS’s backlog of care would not be as bad if the government had given it permission to expand the number of hospital beds in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the head of the health service has ...

Dame Sally Davies told the Dawn Sturgess Inquiry that she worried someone would pick up discarded Novichok after the Skripals were poisoned.

Taxi driver Urfan Sharif, 42, appearing at the Old Bailey on Monday, once again denied killing his daughter by beating her. He told jurors that he found the 10-year-old collapsed after his wife ...

The health of 11 million children in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province is in danger because of air pollution, the UN children’s agency has warned. Toxic smog has shrouded Pakistan’s cultural capital ...

He is expected to tell the nearly 100 other delegations in Baku that Britain is returning to ‘responsible international engagement’.

A joke and magic shop which claims to be the oldest in the world has closed after 138 years. Tam Shepherds Trick Shop has been a Glasgow institution since 1886. The shop drew in generations of ...

Home workers save an average of 56 minutes a day from not commuting, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This frees time for them to get 24 more minutes of “sleep and rest” and 15 ...

Pensioners face having to fill in a 243-question application to claim pension credit, which will unlock winter fuel payments of up to £300.

The study found that children with asthma performed worse in memory tasks than children without the lung condition. According to the researchers, memory deficits may have longer-term consequences, and ...

Luke Louden has always loved the sea, so when he upped sticks and moved 400 miles from his English hometown to the south west of Scotland it was ...

Jonny Huntington, who suffered a brain bleed in 2014, is aiming to become the first disabled person to succeed in this ...