Richard Flanagan, who won the Booker Prize for fiction in 2014, has become the first author in history to achieve the “unprecedented double” after being named the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize ...

Sir Keir Starmer has said he has “no plans” to join the Bluesky social media platform. The Prime Minister told reporters that “at the moment” there are no plans to establish official Government ...

Croatia will hold a presidential election on December 29, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has announced. Authorities are yet to formally set the vote. If no candidate wins an outright majority on ...

Jaguar has unveiled a new logo that combines upper and lower case letters and confirmed it will only make electric cars in ...

The Taoiseach has branded as chilling a manifesto pledge from Sinn Fein to commission a review of RTE’s objectivity in its coverage of international conflicts. Mr Harris said the proposed examination ...

Russia’s “irresponsible rhetoric” on nuclear weapons will not deter UK support for Ukraine, Sir Keir Starmer has said. Vladimir Putin has lowered the threshold for nuclear weapons on the 1,000th day ...

Tim Roca, the Labour MP for Macclesfield, tabled the adjournment debate and urged authorities in the UAE to free Mr Cornelius “as a gesture of friendship”. He described the case as “the arbitrary ...

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Howard Lutnick, head of brokerage and investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald and a cryptocurrency enthusiast, as his nominee for commerce secretary. The position is ...

The October 26 election kept the governing Georgian Dream party in power, but opponents say the vote was rigged.

Russian President Vladimir Putin formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons on Tuesday, a move ...

Many farmers protesting over changes to inheritance tax are “wrong” about the policy, the Environment Secretary has said. Steve Reed rejected claims that the Government has underestimated how many ...

The opposition leader in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland won last week’s election, the electoral commission has said ...