UK home secretary Yvette Cooper has announced new government-backed local inquiries into grooming gangs, as she seeks to draw a line under a furore surrounding the decade-old scandal that was ...

Powerful production suggests incoming music director Jakub Hrůša could well become the dominant interpreter of Janáček ...

The album lifted The Weather Station beyond the Toronto indie scene in which they formed in 2006. But Lindeman fumbled the challenge of following it up with How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars.

Cyber attack against lab services provider last summer led to one of the largest recent NHS patient data breaches ...

Bulgaria’s parliament has approved a coalition government with a pro-Russia party, ending a political impasse in the Balkan ...

In the first two weeks of 2025, Hargreaves Lansdown recorded 6,100 gilt purchases by its clients, the highest fortnightly number since October. Hargreaves clients have put £225mn into gilts so far ...

We’re in the final days of the Biden administration. In his farewell address to the nation last night Joe Biden warned that an “oligarchy is taking shape in America”. As we close out this era of ...

Sir Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, has travelled to Kyiv to sign a “100-year partnership” treaty between Britain and Ukraine, in a show of support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy that some Ukrainian ...

Ski-friendly and waterfront finds, from an Arts & Crafts-style house with its own skating rink to a modern Malibu-inspired ...

The NHS guidance is clear. The delivery of care in “temporary escalation spaces” is “not acceptable and should not be considered as standard”. But the reality for health staff across England is that ...

European carmakers have called on Brussels to strike a “grand bargain” with Donald Trump, asking lawmakers for an urgent analysis of what the incoming US president wants to avoid a bruising trade war.

Chipmaker is well placed to cope with disruption caused by increasing US restrictions on chip tech exports to China ...