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.

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

Former chief medical officer for England Dame Sally Davies said she had nightmares about someone picking up the discarded nerve agent Novichok after the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his ...

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 ...

Giving evidence to the UK Covid-19 Public Inquiry, NHS England chief executive Amanda Pritchard said that the decision was “disappointing” and that the nation “could be in a different position” when ...

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

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 PA news agency understands scans have revealed the problem which forced him off in the first half of Saturday’s victory over Aston Villa is rated as a low grade issue. It is believed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson was regarded as a “divisive character” at his NHS Trust who “was ploughing his own furrow” before being investigated, a coroner examining more than 60 patient ...