A wealthy landowner has been fined £28,000 for taking too much water from a rare chalk stream during a drought. The Environment Agency said the Ilchester Estate in Dorset “deliberately flouted” the ...

Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in a “massive” night time missile attack and Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said, as the ...

OpenAI boss Sam Altman has reiterated the AI giant is “not for sale” after an Elon Musk-led group of investors offered more than 97 billion dollars (£78.4bn) for the firm. After news of the 97.4bn ...

Tariffs are taxes – bad for business, worse for consumers,’ European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.

The cost of dealing with Northern Ireland’s troubled past is set to be considerably more than £2 billion, a UK think tank has estimated. The Policy Exchange has put the cost of inquiries, court cases, ...

A beloved Coronation Street star has quit the ITV show 10 years after her first appearance. In last night's episode, Bethany Platt (played by Lucy Fallon) said goodbye to the cobbles to start a new ...

Waterloo Road is returning to the BBC for its 15th series, with Lindsey Coulson being among several new additions to the cast ...

The families of four young people have sued the social media giant in the US in an effort to get access to their data.

Jurors in the trial of Hadi Matar, 27, on Monday heard from staff at the arts institution where Rushdie was set to give a speech in August 2022, when authorities say the Fairview, New Jersey man ...

Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has backed a call by actor Idris Elba to take action on kitchen knives. Luther star Elba, 52, has called for a ban on kitchen knives with a pointed end, in a ...

Bestselling author Jojo Moyes has spoken of her anxiety at leaving the Essex home she had spent more than two decades living in. The author, 55, spoke about the move while promoting her latest book We ...

The American rapper is not legally required to evidence, and subjecting a defendant to cross-examination is often a major risk in criminal cases.