Speaking on the sidelines of the annual session of China’s national congress, Wang Wentao reiterated Beijing’s calls for ...

The Justice Secretary has threatened to overrule the Sentencing Council by changing the law as she called for new guidance for judges to consider a criminal’s ethnicity before deciding their ...

Rachel Reeves could have to break her commitment to only one major economic event per year, experts have suggested ahead of this month’s Spring Statement. Dr Isabel Stockton, a senior research ...

Judge John McConnell granted the request for a preliminary injunction from nearly two dozen Democratic states.

London gangster-turned-author Dave Courtney described his pain and how he did not want to “waste having a wicked life” in videos he made before his death, an inquest has heard. Courtney, 64, who ...

Pictures show people wearing life jackets coming ashore in Dover, Kent after disembarking from a Border Force boat on Thursday.

The defendants, four men aged 46 to 58 and a 77-year-old woman, were accused of founding or being a member of terror organisation United Patriots.

A Number 10 spokesman suggested it was usual for ministers to make clear if they think decisions should be taken at a ministerial level rather than by local councils. The go-ahead on the proposed ...

A 12-year-old girl has died after being struck by a car after getting off a school bus. The collision happened outside the village of Castledawson in Co Londonderry on Wednesday afternoon, the Police ...

Industry minister Sarah Jones pledged a ‘well-managed, orderly and prosperous transition’ away from oil and gas.

Bosnian Serbs passed the disputed laws after a Bosnian court convicted Milorad Dodik, the pro-Russia president of the Serb-run entity in Bosnia called Republika Srpska. Dodik was sentenced last month ...