All news by author Emma Davis

Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell will enter a ballot of Labour members in their bid to succeed Angela Rayner as the party’s deputy leader.

A British couple who had been held in detention by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been released and have flown out of the country, the Qatari foreign ministry said in a statement.

In the initial months of the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK was severely underprepared.

The Northern Ireland secretary has stated that new measures aimed at addressing crimes committed during the Troubles will tackle the "unfinished business" of the peace agreement made 27 years ago.

British spy chief Sir Richard Moore has warned there is "absolutely no evidence" Vladimir Putin wants to negotiate a peace deal in Ukraine.

A Grammy Award-winning singer has died in a plane crash. Brett James, 57, was among three people on board an aircraft that crashed into a field in North Carolina.

A television channel run by Russia’s Ministry of Defence is airing a program it claims is AI-generated. According to advertisements for the show, a neural network is picking the topics it wants to discuss, then uses AI to generate that video.

President Donald Trump mentioned that being with the "wonderful" King was the highlight of his historic state visit to the UK, as he praised the royal family following the trip.

The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Court to allow it to fire the Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, as it continues its extraordinary attack on the central bank’s independence.

French first lady Brigitte Macron is preparing to present "photographic and scientific evidence" in court to prove that she is a woman.

The US is taking steps to reclaim the Bagram airbase from the Taliban after losing it during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Donald Trump announced.

Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have entered into a mutual defence agreement that considers an attack on either country as an attack on both — a crucial agreement following Israel’s strike on Qatar last week.

The EU has called for closer ties with India, while admitting there was no “mutual understanding” with Narendra Modi’s government over Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Shabana Mahmood accused migrants of "making a mockery" of Britain’s laws and generosity as she vowed to fight last-minute appeals against the Government’s "one in, one out" deal.

Police investigating the rape of a British-born Sikh woman in a racially aggravated attack in the West Midlands have renewed their appeal for public assistance as they released a man on bail.

An 88-year-old woman died after being knocked over and trampled by a cow.

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said that two foreign laboratories had confirmed her husband was poisoned, after tests on biological samples secretly smuggled out of Russia.

Official Britain is rolling out the red carpet for Donald Trump today. It marks the first full day of his significant state visit, and he will spend it with King Charles at Windsor Castle, experiencing the finest pageantry the nation can offer.

At least 900 tourists have been left stranded near Peru’s ancient Inca citadel of Machu Picchu after their passenger train was suspended due to a protest, the country’s tourism minister said.

King Charles and several other senior Royal Family members led mourners at the Duchess of Kent’s funeral at Westminster Cathedral today.

Soldiers disgraced the British army by targeting unarmed civilians in an "unjustified" and "gratuitous" use of force on Bloody Sunday, the murder trial of an army veteran has heard.

Charlie’s alleged assassin Tyler Robinson wrote a note expressing his intent to ’take out’ the conservative commentator before he fatally shot him, according to the FBI director.

Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has called for Israel to be barred from international sports competitions as long as its “barbarism” in Gaza continues, saying the country should not be allowed to use high-profile events to “whitewash” its offensive.