Smoking could cause almost 300,000 cancer cases in the UK over the next five years, according to new analysis. The “magnitude ...

Workers in the night-time economy will be instructed on how to prevent cases, support victims and help ‘collect evidence’ by spring next year.

Hours after the rain subsided, rescuers were still searching for a missing five-year-old girl in the inundated neighbourhood of Bajo Llojeta.

Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on a Lebanese army centre killed one soldier and wounded 18 others on a southwestern road, ...

British spies will seek to counter the threat of Russian cyber warfare with a new laboratory for artificial intelligence, a minister will announce, as he insists Vladimir Putin will fail to deter ...

Tax rises in the autumn Budget are undermining investment among UK companies, according to the head of one of Britain’s most prominent business groups. Rain Newton-Smith, chief executive of the ...

MPs will take part in a vote this week on whether to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people after a row over ministerial criticism of the Bill deepened on Sunday. Labour backbencher Kim ...

A six-year-old Harry Potter enthusiast who was given a wand by a kind stranger after losing his has said he feels “like a wizard now”. Richard Brown saved up pocket money he got from completing chores ...

Upgrades to Openreach’s ultrafast full fibre broadband could deliver a £66 billion boost to the UK economy in the next few years, research suggests. The upgrade is expected to drive productivity gains ...

Storm Bert will continue to bring disruption into Monday after torrential downpours caused “devastating” flooding over the weekend. Hundreds of homes were left underwater, roads were turned into ...

James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, is said to be a former British Army soldier who was captured in the Kursk region.

Dame Priti Patel and Robert Jenrick suggested the International Criminal Court decision had ‘no proper basis in international law’.