The seating plan for international leaders at the funeral of Pope Francis is a delicate effort in diplomacy. It has been described as a “master plan” in stage-managing the “big egos” of world leaders ...

A strong 6.3 earthquake off Ecuador’s Pacific coast has shaken the northern part of the country, with some initial reports of damage to houses. No injuries have been reported so far.

Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who served as a minister in the last Conservative government, is standing as Reform’s candidate in the Lincolnshire mayoralty.

Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson as prosecutors in the US formally declared their intent to seek the ...

Rachel Reeves met Scott Bessent on Friday, after saying Britain’s relationship with the EU is ‘arguably even more important’ than with the US.

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander announced she is prepared to support the expansion of Gatwick airport if the project is adjusted.

Lucinda Collins ploughed through a junction after being told on a call to her mother that her father was dying.

Syria’s foreign minister has attended a UN Security Council briefing after raising his country’s new flag at the ...

A woman who stabbed a man to death in a racist and unprovoked attack had asked her care worker that she be sent back to hospital minutes before the killing. Hubert “Isaac” Brown, 61, was sitting on a ...

Brothers Louis Ahearne, 36, and Stewart Ahearne, 46, were sentenced at the Old Bailey alongside Daniel Kelly, 46.

Some 150,000 people have passed by Francis’s coffin over the past three days as he lay in state in St Peter’s Basilica.

A woman who accused a former contestant on Britain’s Got Talent of raping her said she stayed the night after the alleged incident as she “felt frozen”.