Burke was last week called up to Gregor Townsend’s squad for the first time for the upcoming Guinness Six Nations.

Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power have appealed to US President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the US. An estimated 15,000 Afghans are ...

News Group Newspapers apologised for ‘serious intrusion’ by The Sun and for phone hacking by private investigators working for the News of ...

A Bill that will prevent taxpayers being “on the hook for small bank failures” has moved closer to becoming law. Treasury minister Emma Reynolds said the Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Bill ...

Scrum specialist Adam Jones will join Wales’ coaching team for this season’s Guinness Six Nations. Jones will link up with Warren Gatland’s support staff on secondment from Harlequins, where he has ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the biggest thing to hit education in 100 years and will change the design of schools within three decades, a historian and author has said.

An exchange of letters between bosses at the Public Accounts Committee and HM Revenue and Customs was published on Wednesday.

The Irish parliament has failed to nominate a new taoiseach, following a row on speaking time. Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin had been poised to become the next taoiseach after agreeing a Programme ...

She has been outspoken about being in an allegedly abusive relationship, which she claims left her without access to money or a support network.

Plans to build two homes on agricultural land in the tiny village of Fordgate near Bridgwater Canal have been resubmitted to Somerset Council.

England’s new white-ball era under Brendon McCullum began on a bum note as India drew first blood in the five-match T20 series with a comprehensive seven-wicket victory in Kolkata.

A “lively and happy” 12-year-old boy who died after being stabbed in the stomach has been named by police. Leo Ross died in hospital on Tuesday evening, hours after he was found with a stab wound near ...