Closing parliament's bars in a bid to tackle a culture of sexual misconduct on the estate would be "excessively puritanical", Kwasi Kwarteng has said.

A group of civilians have become the first to be evacuated from a steel plant in Mariupol - but 1,000 people are still thought to be living underneath it.

A woman who says she was branded a witch as a child and accused of giving her mother cancer fears the faith leader behind the claims is still operating in the UK today.

Ireland's Katie Taylor has beaten Amanda Serrano in the biggest-ever fight in women's boxing history.

Joe Biden has mocked his own low approval ratings and had a dig at the "horrible plague" of predecessor Donald Trump at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.

Prince Charles has called for the UK's "dwindling" historic natural habitat to be renewed as he revealed a new project to mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.

The contractions started after she learnt her husband, a Ukrainian border guard, had been killed by a Russian sniper.

The family of a former hotel manager who was portrayed as a hero in a Hollywood film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide has filed a $400m lawsuit over his alleged abduction and torture.

North Sea oil and gas companies have come under pressure from the government to invest their profits into accelerating domestic energy production as millions of Britons continue to face soaring energy prices.

Britain has accused a "sick Russian troll factory" of "plaguing social media with Kremlin propaganda" after funding what it said was expert research into the organisation.