Senior government officials have met to discuss plans for the first-ever heatwave emergency in a bid to deal with the rising temperatures.

Labour will today table a motion in Parliament to hold a no confidence vote in the government, aiming to remove Boris Johnson from Number 10 and potentially trigger a general election.

The "deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date" has been revealed.

The government’s handling of the monkeypox outbreak has been severely criticised by an alliance of the country’s leading sexual health professionals, who warn the outbreak could last months and risk the virus becoming "endemic if urgent a...

Sir Mo Farah has revealed he was "trafficked" into the UK illegally under the name of another child, saying he wants to tell his real story "whatever the cost".

More than 5,000lbs (2,200kg) of meth has been discovered hidden in a truck at the US-Mexico border in a "record-breaking" seizure, authorities have said.

A fake version of cricket's Indian Premier League - set up to con gamblers in Russia - has been broken up after police arrested the gang behind it.

Humanity is closer than ever to irreversible biodiversity damage that could kill off mankind - not just plants and animals, the Environment Agency will warn today.

The Sri Lankan president's brother and former finance minister has been stopped from leaving the country, immigration officials said, as anger mounts against the powerful family who have been blamed for the economic crisis.

A long-awaited report into widespread grooming of children in Telford is due to be published.