Donald Trump's hopes for a swift peace deal to end the war in Ukraine appear to have almost entirely vanished, as the US has announced it will scale back its direct role as mediator. State Department...

Those whispers turned into a roar after yesterday’s local elections, which even Labour MPs are calling “catastrophic”.The party is in open revolt, with MPs saying Starmer’s first 10 months in...

Russia’s economy is grinding to a halt as the structural limits of its war-driven expansion become clear, a Ukrainian banker has warned. Kyrylo Shevchenko, former governor of the National Bank of...

It’s time to ask the hard question: Why is Ed Miliband still the UK’s Energy Secretary? After the catastrophic power blackout that plunged millions of people across Spain and Portugal into...

It is almost unbelievable that we are even having this debate. Yet here we are — people taking to the streets to protest the Supreme Court’s ruling that a woman is, in fact, a biological woman....

Harvey Weinstein's rape retrial begins in New York 54 minutes agoMadeline HalpertBBC News, New YorkReporting fromIn courtGetty ImagesAttorneys delivered opening statements on Wednesday in the New...

Gaza health ministry denies manipulating death toll figures1 hour agoYolande KnellBBC Middle East correspondent, JerusalemReutersAt al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Alam Hirzallah resigns himself to a...