The vice-president's blunt assessment of Republican election defeat marked one of the sharpest breaks with a sitting president in recent memory.

Pound reaches highest level against a basket of currencies since the Brexit referendum a decade ago

Is it symptom a health service at breaking point - or a positive way of involving the public?

Andy Burnham signed up to a broader process to address "historical harms" of the transatlantic slave trade, Chris Mason writes.

Most analysts are predicting an increase from 3.75% to 4%, the first increase in more than three years.

As many as 1,700 officers could be deployed in the biggest Police Scotland operation since last year's visit by President Trump.

The wider risk to the UK public from the deadly virus remains low, a government spokesperson says.

At least 40 people were killed and another 30 may still be under the rubble after Monday's attack on a Ukrainian village, Kyiv says.

Even for countries where typhoons are a way of life, the last few months have brought unusually wild weather.

The trial was condemned as "unethical" and "neocolonial" because half of the babies would not be given the vaccine.