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

Jos Buttler has been impressed by how quickly young all-rounders Jacob Bethell and Dan Mousley have settled into life with England. The Warwickshire pair are close friends and have started their ...

Ms Haigh also said there are “early signs” of improvement across several services, including London North Eastern Railway (LNER), Northern Rail and TransPennine Express, but noted it will “take time ...

Thousands of people have been forcibly evacuated from 2,500 villages in the northern Philippines as another typhoon ...

Ruben Amorim has arrived in Manchester to begin his reign as Manchester United boss (Zed Jameson/PA). The former Netherlands striker, who was brought in over the summer and has been in interim charge ...

Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he expects the Strategic Defence Review to find that the UK is facing the biggest threat since the Cold War.

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 ...

Tam Shepherds Trick Shop is to become an online business only because of the redevelopment of the premises it is in.

Toxic smog has shrouded Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore and 17 other districts in Punjab since last month. Health officials say more than 40,000 people have been treated for respiratory ailments ...

People who work from home spend more time sleeping and exercising than those who travel to work, a survey has found. Home workers save an average of 56 minutes a day from not commuting, according to ...

Ministers are “looking at” the lengthy form which pensioners must fill out to secure their winter fuel payments. Pensions minister Emma Reynolds acknowledged the application process was “very long”, ...

Mysteries about Uranus which have puzzled scientists for decades may have been the result of unexpected data collected during an unusually powerful solar storm, research suggests. In 1986, Nasa’s ...