Taiwan demonstrated its sea defences against a potential Chinese attack on Thursday as tensions rise with Beijing, part of a multi-tiered strategy to deter an invasion from the mainland.

Mr Lammy told the BBC that he believes Mr Trump’s comments earlier in the week about Greenland come from his concerns about US economic security.

Private providers of social housing in England saw their costs for major repairs including cladding removal reach the highest level on record in the year to March, according to a report. The Regulator ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, will be honoured on Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National ...

Two lynx which were illegally released in the Scottish Highlands have been successfully captured – with experts warning the creatures could have died if they had remained in the wild.

The UK’s biggest supermarket chain reported UK and Ireland like-for-like sales, excluding fuel and VAT, up 3.7 over the six weeks to January 4.

Tesco is being urged to drop a trial involving Danone-funded midwives offering advice to customers on feeding infants. The midwives have been offered branded uniforms and undergone training by the ...

A community has paid tribute to a 14-year-old boy with a “pure heart” who was stabbed to death on a bus in south-east London. Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa was fatally injured on a route 472 bus in ...

EastEnders star Paul Bradley, who plays Nigel Bates, has begun a new storyline where he reveals he has been diagnosed with young onset dementia.

Greggs upped the prices on a number of items in July 2024, including a 5p increase on the cost of sausage rolls.

Anthony Blinken said on Wednesday that the incoming president’s ambitions are unlikely to amount to anything more than talk.

The bodies of Yosef Al Zaydani and his son Hamzah were recovered in an operation, defence minister Israel Katz said.