There is a “likelihood” a two-year-old boy, whose body was found in his home, might still be alive if his father had not died, an pre-inquest hearing has heard. Bronson Battersby was discovered ...

A UK ticket-holder has come forward to claim the £177 million jackpot from Tuesday’s EuroMillions draw, which will make them the third biggest National Lottery winner of all time. The claim will now ...

Nearly 25 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to development minister Anneliese Dodds.

Scotland’s police chief has said the force has a “resolute determination” to solve the murder of a banker who was shot on his doorstep exactly 20 years ago. Father-of-two Alistair Wilson, 30, was ...

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first round of the presidential election. The Constitutional Court in Bucharest ...

Unite, one of Labour’s major donors, has repeatedly called on the Government to abandon its decision to means test the winter fuel payment.

Lord Lamont of Lerwick warned that a rival payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ if ...