The deal returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands.

Police have named a nine-year-old girl and her father who were killed in a house fire in West Yorkshire. Sohaib Ahmed, 38, and his daughter Manahal died in the blaze which broke out in Russell Close, ...

Nine people have been killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz, with the suspected perpetrator also dead ...

An ex-girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs has told a court that she took part in sex acts with male sex workers at the music mogul’s request because it made her feel loved by him – but now regrets what ...

Flagship planning reforms which are “critical” to the delivery of Labour’s pledge to build 1.5 million homes have cleared the Commons. MPs voted by 306 to 174, majority 132, to approve the Planning ...

CUMBERLAND Council is hoping to build a new visitor centre for Millom. The plans are for a site on land at Hodbarrow Nature Reserve and they are currently being considered by council planning officers ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner met the parents of Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King in Downing Street on Tuesday.

Different options to provide asylum accommodation are being piloted ahead of a break clause in contracts next year.

The Israeli military says it has fired warning shots at people who approached its forces in a ‘suspicious’ manner.

Plaid Cymru has called for the First Minister of Wales to condemn the UK government for “betraying Wales” on rail funding. Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid, criticised the UK Labour Government for ...

In a letter to HMRC, Treasury Committee chairwoman Dame Meg Hillier said that to discover the information during a session ‘is unacceptable’.