The statement came a day after US President Donald Trump said only 21 of 24 hostages believed alive had survived.

MPs have rejected a bid to force public authorities to record sex data purely based on biological sex, amid concerns it would lead to the “mass outing of trans people”. The Conservatives had put ...

US Vice President JD Vance has said Russia was “asking for too much” in its initial peace offer as the United States looks to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine.

A new documentary giving a “raw and unfiltered view” of TV chef Heston Blumenthal’s life following his bipolar diagnosis has been commissioned by the BBC.