A comedian who has appeared on a number of BBC shows has sparked outrage for posting a threat on social media to kill a female “Zionist” comedian. Dane Baptiste, 42, has apologised for posting the ...

People with anxiety and milder depression face losing entitlement to disability benefit payments as Rishi Sunak set out a “moral mission” to reform welfare. The prime minister said the recent rises in ...

Every constituency in Britain saw a rise in sickness benefit claims last year, with Conservative areas experiencing some of the biggest increases. Affluent southern areas have seen the numbers of ...

The Kinahan cartel is using a network of front companies, offshore accounts and proxies to evade sweeping US sanctions and explore new ways to launder its vast wealth. A wide-ranging investigation by ...

Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Are there two more soulful voices anywhere on the planet? At a time when technology plays tricks on listeners and makes very ordinary singers sound, well, ...

At the glitzy London Hilton hotel on Park Lane four years ago the Newsnight team was toasting its success. They had just picked up four RTS Journalism Awards for the programme’s landmark interview ...

Drivers overwhelmingly prefer cars with physical buttons and switches over distracting touchscreen controls, a study has found. Almost 90 per cent of motorists said they would rather drive a car with ...

It is almost as though Ravi Shastri is willing the weather gods to do their worst, to bring monsoons and therefore moisture and greenness to the Test pitches for the five-match Test series against ...

When Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, met President Macron of France for talks on the future of Europe’s security, the stakes were high. The supply of American armaments to Ukraine has been all but ...

Jeremy Hunt put tax cuts for workers and parents at the heart of his pre-­election budget as he ­declared that Britain’s economy was “turning the corner” and laid out his goal to abolish national ...

The US Supreme Court set Donald Trump on track for a week of momentous victories by overruling a state ban on standing again for president before a potential clean sweep of Super Tuesday votes.

The owners of “Britain’s wonkiest pub” have been ordered to rebuild the building brick by brick after it was destroyed in a fire and unlawfully demolished. The Crooked House in Himley, near Dudley in ...