Just 42,500 applications have been approved since July, when the Government said almost 900,000 households were missing out on the benefit.

Seven people have died in a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Indonesia’s Sumatra island, officials said, adding to ...

Net migration to the UK hit a higher than previously thought record of 906,000 in the year to June 2023, revised official estimates show. The measure for the difference between the number of people ...

The US conservative political commentor Candace Owens has been refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials ...

A police officer who shocked a 95-yer-old nursing home resident with a Taser has been found guilty of manslaughter in an Australian court. A jury found Kristian James Samuel White guilty in the trial ...

Decisions about assisted dying should be made on a “secular basis”, a Government minister said ahead of MPs voting on the issue on Friday. Home Office minister Seema Malhotra acknowledged that “people ...

Sir Ed Davey is launching a bid for Christmas number one with a charity single called Love Is Enough. The Liberal Democrat leader is teaming up with Bath Philharmonia’s Young Carers’ Choir for the ...

Customers with British Gas, EDF, E.ON, OVO and other energy companies could be eligible for the Warm Home Discount Scheme ...

Donald Trump has dined with Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg at the US President-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The meeting brings together the Facebook founder and the former president who ...

A police car has collided with an official limousine transporting New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis. No-one was hurt in the incident, officials said.

Five people have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a takeaway restaurant and flats in north London. Around 100 firefighters were called to tackle the blaze on Seven Sisters Road in ...

Russia is engaged in a massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, officials said, as fears mount about Moscow’s intentions to devastate the country’s power generation ...