All news for 2024-12-10

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is pushing her cabinet colleagues to find major savings in their departments. In a case of very awkward timing, new figures reveal one recently spent almost £1,200 on two luxury leather folders.

A London bus had a lucky miss when a house exploded just as it approached this afternoon.

A former human rights lawyer has been spared jail over false claims of abuse made against British troops fighting in Iraq.

A Russian spy cell operating in the UK planned to kidnap a journalist and smuggle him out of the country using a small boat, the Old Bailey has heard.

Any prospect of British jihadists returning from Syria would be "a concern" and the UK is keeping "a very close eye" on the situation, a Home Office minister has said.

Friends of the Earth calls on government to rein in growth of datacentres for fear they could increase fossil fuel use

Eight-year-old boy believed to have disappeared two years ago but only reported missing in August

An MP has spoken against calls to ban first-cousin marriage in the UK, and suggested “advanced genetic test screening” is made available to prospective couples.

Israel will set up a “sterile defensive zone” in Southern Syria, the country’s Defence Minister reportedly said on Tuesday.

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne died on October 16 after he fell from his third-floor balcony hotel in Buenos Aires

Northumbria Police have announced that former England rugby union player Tom Voyce is believed to have died aged 43 after his car plunged into the River Aln during Storm Darragh

Hundreds of users are having problems accessing Microsoft services including Outlook and Teams.

A pupil was suspended for hacking his school’s network while in a computer science class because he was ‘bored’.

Luigi Mangione was last night arrested and charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson – but who is he and what do we know about him?

A British woman, aged 44, has sadly died after crashing her car in Italy - police spotted her car in a canal but by the time they retrieved her body it was too late