The UK’s asylum system now costs £5 billion – the highest level of spending on record and up by more than a third in a year. Home Office spending on asylum rose by £1.43 billion, up 36% from £3.95 ...

At least 13 people have died in eastern Uganda after landslides buried 40 homes in six villages, officials said. The Uganda Red Cross Society said 13 bodies have been recovered and the rescue effort ...

The Equality and Human Rights Commission said Parliament needs adequate time to scrutinise the proposed legislation.

Coventry have announced Frank Lampard as their new head coach on a two-and-a-half-year contract. The 46-year-old will take charge of the Sky Blues for the first time this Saturday when his new side ...

Just 42,500 applications have been approved since July, when the Government said almost 900,000 households were missing out on the benefit.

Today our Road Safety Camera vans will be operating on the A66 east from Penrith, the A685 between Tebay & Brougham, the M6 J42 – J37, ...

Seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said, adding to ...

“While remaining high by historic standards, net migration is now beginning to fall and is provisionally down 20% in the 12 months to June 2024. Over that period we have seen a fall in immigration, ...

The US conservative political commentor Candace Owens has been refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials ...

BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball has revealed she suffers from temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder, in a post on Instagram.

In Cumbria, 152 pets were abandoned last winter, up slightly from 150 in 2020-21. RSPCA chief inspector Ian Briggs said the rise in the number of calls made to the charity's emergency line this winter ...

Donald Trump has dined with Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg at the US President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The meeting brings together the Facebook founder and the former president who ...