The strike action is affecting 36 ports and is the first by the International Longshoremen’s Association since 1977.

BBC journalist Frank Gardner has criticised an airline after he was forced to “crawl on the floor” to reach a plane toilet because of a lack of onboard wheelchairs.

The warning, posted by the Israeli military’s Arabic spokesman on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, specified ...

Taylor Swift tickets given as gifts to politicians and their families are “only for the leaders of the Labour Party”, Robert Jenrick has said. Mr Jenrick and fellow Tory leadership candidate James ...

The King has sent a warm private congratulatory 100th birthday message to former US president Jimmy Carter, expressing his admiration for his life of public service. Mr Carter became the first former ...

Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire had their wettest month in records dating back to 1836, while other counties had their wettest September.

London Underground workers have given a fresh mandate for strike action while pay talks continue. Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) voted by more than 9-1 in favour of taking ...

A luxury cruise ship which was stranded in Northern Ireland for four months remains in Belfast Lough hours after it left the city’s harbour. Chief executive of Villa Vie Residences Mike Petterson said ...

An independent inquiry into the death of Harry Dunn could be set up as early as November, the Foreign Secretary has told the teenager’s family. Harry’s mother, Charlotte Charles, told the PA news ...

Mr Jenrick continues to face backlash for claiming that UK special forces are ‘killing rather than capturing’ terrorists.

Sheku Bayoh’s family were provided with pro-bono legal assistance from human right lawyer Aamer Anwar’s firm for several years, an inquiry ...

A British-Lebanese family has been reunited after making a “terrifying” journey out of Beirut with missiles landing “left, right and centre”. At Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, 19-year-old Lara – who did ...