The UK will be the top investment destination for ScottishPower’s Spanish owner’s 58 billion euro (£50.6 billion) spending plan that will focus on electricity grids, in a move set to create thousands ...

An award-winning English sparkling wine producer has begun its earliest harvest with the grower “optimistic” that the warm and sunny spring and summer will lead to a “top-quality” vintage.

I would rather that was not the case, but we have to take seriously the threat from Russia.” Speaking specifically about the incursion into Estonian airspace, Mr Swinney said ...

Some expressed hope that Donald Trump’s words would be backed up by concrete support for Ukraine, while others were wary of his unpredictability.

One of the strongest typhoons in years has lifted waves taller than lampposts on to Hong Kong promenades and created rough seas on the southern Chinese coast after causing deadly destruction in Taiwan ...

Hollywood star Sean Bean has backed a campaign to save green belt land where he played as child, saying proposed housing developments would be a “tragedy”. Bean was brought up in the Handsworth area ...

She said the boy was assaulted by other pupils at Donaldson’s School for the Deaf and abandoned by the side of the road on a trip.

Joshua Meadows, 18, refused to remove the covering when asked to do so by police during a protest in the Essex town on July 24, the court heard.

Sir Sadiq Khan has called Donald Trump racist, sexist and Islamophobic after the US president renewed his feud with the London mayor during a speech to the United Nations. “I think President Trump has ...

Maria Steen has fallen short of the 20 signatures required to enter Ireland’s presidential race as the nomination window closed with three candidates confirmed. To be eligible to run, a candidate must ...

US president Donald Trump’s comments about paracetamol during pregnancy are “not responsible”, Scotland’s First Minister has said. Mr Trump said this week there had been a “meteoric rise” in cases of ...

Scientists have slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease for the first time with a “groundbreaking” new treatment. Experts from University College London (UCL) said the finding could “change ...