The Queen got into the festive spirit by helping to light a Christmas pudding during a lunch for volunteers and joked – “hold on to your hair”.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

Contraband is brought in to prisons in “children’s nappies” and through the use of “drone drops” by organised criminal gangs, MPs have been told. This came as prisons minister Lord Timpson called for ...

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said many family farms felt the changes announced in the budget would be ‘the final blow’.

Transgender women will be banned from playing in the female category in most domestic tennis competitions in Britain from next month.

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s first range of generative AI tools, are now available to users in the UK.

Coles, journalist Jane Moore and presenter Declan Donnelly have returned to the UK, with the rest of the cast expected in due course.

Ireland will be asking the ICJ to broaden its interpretation of what constitutes genocide. The Irish Government also approved an intervention in The Gambia’s case against Myanmar, also under the ...

There was no evidence of police collusion in the investigation into the 1978 La Mon House Hotel bombing, the Police Ombudsman has said. Twelve people were killed and scores injured in the atrocity ...