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COVID-19 fraud and error cost the taxpayer nearly £11bn, a government watchdog has found.

Homelessness charities have warned that ministers are "falling short of what is desperately needed to end Britain's homelessness crisis".

Venezuela has accused the US of "piracy" after an oil tanker was seized off the country's coast.

Tax changes announced in the budget could have "devastating, unintended consequences" on live music venues, including widespread closures and job losses, trade bodies have warned.

Ramesh lives in fear every day. A police siren is enough to alarm him.

A man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-partner's sister and her three children in a house fire.

The UK's biggest water supplier has been dealt another blow as the regulator decided to reduce its income.

Sir Keir Starmer has called for a tougher approach to policing Europe's borders ahead of a meeting between leaders to discuss a potential shake-up of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Patients with a previously untreatable form of blood cancer are now living disease-free after a world-first gene therapy.

A huge takeover that would rock the entertainment industry looks imminent, with Netflix and Paramount fighting over Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).

The government can't say with accuracy how many visa overstayers there are in Britain - no data has been collated for five-and-a-half years.

The pictures are striking - US forces sliding down ropes on to the deck of an oil tanker in the Caribbean.

The US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, escalating tensions between Washington and Caracas.

Tributes have been paid to a British soldier killed in Ukraine, as the country's allies prepare for talks before a crucial potential meeting with Donald Trump.

The CQC report should make worrying reading for NHS leaders. 

Sophie Kinsella, author of the Shopaholic series of novels, has been hailed as a "graceful" inspiration who left her readers feeling better about themselves, following her death at the age of 55.

Venezuela's in-hiding opposition leader has made her first public appearance in months after covertly journeying to Oslo to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Christmas is saved" after a large search operation for a runaway reindeer found the animal on a beach in Merseyside, emergency services have said.

The trouble with the scientific evidence behind the social media ban in Australia is that there is not more of it.

The US central bank has signalled a pause in interest rates cuts demanded by the president as it grapples pressures from both elevated inflation and a weak jobs market.

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has acknowledged there were "too many leaks" in the run-up to last month's budget.

Australian has become the world's first country to implement a social media ban for under-16s.

Whatever your political bent or economic creed, it is hard to argue that the build up to last month's budget was anything but hapless.

The government has denied claims from Argentina's president that the two countries are in talks about lifting an arms export ban that has been in place since the Falklands War.