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

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

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people ...

The Liberal Democrat leader is teaming up with Bath Philharmonia’s Young Carers’ Choir for the song written by six current and former young carers. The song was recorded in Bath last month with a full ...

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 ...

A police car has collided with an official limousine transporting New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis. No-one was hurt in the incident, officials said.

Russia is engaged in a massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, officials said, as fears mount about Moscow’s intentions to devastate the country’s power generation ...

Around 100 firefighters were in attendance at the fire on Thursday morning at a takeaway restaurant in Holloway, north London. The London Fire Brigade said that half of the ground floor, as well as ...

Shoaib Bashir is still “learning on the job” as a Test spinner but believes the support of Ben Stokes is helping unlock his ...

Two Gwynedd rowers are set to take on the world's toughest rowing challenge. Nia Baylis, originally from Machynlleth but now living in Aberdyfi, and her rowing partner Pammie Tyson, will be crossing ...

The 21-year-old off spinner helped the tourists fight back as New Zealand reached 319 for eight on the opening day of the Test series.

President-elect Donald Trump said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop migration through Mexico”. In a post on his Truth Social account on Wednesday evening, Mr Trump said this was ...