The deal returns sovereignty of the islands to Mauritius, but will see the UK lease back a military base on Diego Garcia, the largest of the islands.

Police have named a nine-year-old girl and her father who were killed in a house fire in West Yorkshire. Sohaib Ahmed, 38, and his daughter Manahal died in the blaze which broke out in Russell Close, ...

Flagship planning reforms which are “critical” to the delivery of Labour’s pledge to build 1.5 million homes have cleared the Commons. MPs voted by 306 to 174, majority 132, to approve the Planning ...

Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner met the parents of Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King in Downing Street on Tuesday.

An ex-girlfriend of Sean “Diddy” Combs has told a court that she took part in sex acts with male sex workers at the music ...

The Israeli military says it has fired warning shots at people who approached its forces in a ‘suspicious’ manner.

Different options to provide asylum accommodation are being piloted ahead of a break clause in contracts next year.

The troops are only in the city to protect federal property, officials said, as President Donald Trump clamped down on immigration protests.

Plaid Cymru has called for the First Minister of Wales to condemn the UK government for “betraying Wales” on rail funding. Rhun ap Iorwerth, leader of Plaid, criticised the UK Labour Government for ...

In a letter to HMRC, Treasury Committee chairwoman Dame Meg Hillier said that to discover the information during a session ‘is unacceptable’.

The Police Federation said officers in Co Antrim faced attacks which were ‘totally mindless, unacceptable and feral’.

The mother-of-three said her children were asking why their house was being attacked during disturbances in the Co Antrim town on Monday night.