Nobel Prize-winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah has said he did not pick literature as an A-level as it did not feel “useful”.

The health ministry said the new deaths took the war’s toll to 53,901 since the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.

Wet weather across the bank holiday weekend is expected to end what has been a record-breaking start to spring. While Sunday and Monday will not be a complete washout, the Met Office said unsettled ...

Sir Alan Bates has said the Government’s compensation schemes for victims of the Horizon IT scandal have been “turned into quasi-kangaroo courts”. The former subpostmaster, who has campaigned for ...

Housebuilders who leave vital development sites unfinished for years could face losing their land to local councils under new Government rules. For the first time, developers will have to commit to ...

Services previously run by South Western Railway (SWR) became the first to be brought under public control by the Labour Government on Sunday.

Nigel Farage will commit to restoring the winter fuel payment to all pensioners and to scrapping the two-child benefit cap, reports have suggested. The Reform UK leader is expected to appeal to ...

One lucky player scooped the £3.8 million Lotto jackpot in Saturday’s draw. The ticket-holder matched all six main numbers to win the top prize. Four players won £1 million after matching five out of ...

A major power outage has struck south-eastern France, disrupting traffic and briefly halting events at the Cannes Film ...

More than a dozen people who were injured in a stabbing attack at the central train station in the German city of Hamburg are ...

ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent have revealed their 10 finalists ahead of the grand final on Saturday, May 31 - full list of BGT finalists.