Jacob Rees-Mogg has said that plans to cut more than 90,000 civil service jobs in order to free up billions of pounds for measures to ease the cost of living crisis does not amount to the return of austerity.

Evidence of "credible allegations" of sexual violence against children by Russian troops, and other violations of UN Security Council rules on young people in wartime, have been recorded by a senior British diplomat.

Cancer campaigner and podcast host Deborah James has been honoured with a damehood, the government has announced.

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has said Vladimir Putin was "humiliating himself on the world stage" as she called on international allies to go "further and faster" in supporting Ukraine and restraining the Russian leader.

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has said his party will not support the election of a new Speaker in Stormont today.

A trifle will become part of British royal food history after being named the winner of the Platinum Pudding competition.

Ireland has failed to make it through to the Eurovision grand final.

A three-month-old giraffe calf was fitted with leg braces in California after being born with an unusual disorder that caused her legs to bend the wrong way.

Some World Cup hotels in Qatar have refused to allow same-sex couples to stay and others have asked customers to avoid public displays of affection, according to an investigation.

Calling someone bald at work is sexual harassment, an employment tribunal has ruled.