Sir Keir Starmer has said he told Xi Jinping he wanted “respectful” relations with Beijing as he became the first prime minister to meet the Chinese president since 2018.

Finlay MacDonald, 41, is on trial at the High Court in Edinburgh where he is accused of murder and attempted murder.

Wales number eight Aaron Wainwright says “we are all in this together” as speculation rages about head coach Warren Gatland’s future following a record 11 successive Test match defeats.

A teenager who fatally assaulted a bus driver after being refused permission to travel because he was drunk has been sentenced to four years and four months in custody. Keith Rollinson, 58, died of ...

Health Secretary Wes Streeting has been accused of crossing a line by stating his opposition to the assisted dying proposals.

Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use US-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia, paving the way for a similar move by the UK.

Al-Haq, a Palestinian human rights organisation, is taking legal action against the Department for Business and Trade over arms export licences.

Dylan Thomas, 24, is accused of repeatedly stabbing William Bush, 23, in a ‘frenzied attack’ on December 24 last year.

Government is insisting the introduction of inheritance tax on farm businesses worth more than £1m is ‘fair’ and closes a loophole.

Latest figures suggest almost 10 million of 155 million active subscriptions in the UK are unwanted, the Department for Business and Trade said.

Sara Sharif’s stepmother and uncle have declined to give evidence in their trial for the 10-year-old’s murder. Over two weeks in the witness box, Sara’s father Urfan Sharif, 42, had blamed his wife ...

Mr Swann, who was Northern Ireland’s health minister during the pandemic, told the inquiry the hospital was not the preferred site for the Nightingale unit, but logistics prevented the facility being ...