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The chancellor has announced a series of spending pledges ahead of the autumn budget this week, which include £5bn for health research and innovation and £3bn for education.

When Bitcoin launched in January 2009, it was worth pennies.

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, has pledged to make his country carbon neutral by 2060 at a landmark conference in Riyadh.

The recording of a 911 call has revealed the chaos and panic on a film set after a cinematographer was fatally shot by actor Alec Baldwin.

Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform to "stand up to the tyranny of big tech".

The nation is "dilly-dallying into lockdown" and action should be taken now to avoid much tougher COVID restrictions later, a government scientific adviser has warned.

Russian and Chinese warships have held their first joint patrols in the Pacific Ocean, Moscow has said.

The first trial of Italy's former interior minister Matteo Salvini, who is charged with kidnapping after he refused to allow a migrant rescue ship dock in Sicily in 2019, has begun.

The removal of dangerous cladding from high-risk buildings is unlikely to be complete until seven-and-a-half years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy, government data suggests.

When you think of Australian cultural icons - your head might jump to Kylie, or AC/DC, or even Crocodile Dundee.

A notorious Colombian drug kingpin has been arrested in what has been described as the biggest blow to the country's trafficking network since the death of Pablo Escobar.

Harrison Ford has been reunited with his credit card after losing it during a stay at a beach resort near Palermo, Sicily.

Homes and businesses were left severely damaged after the Spanish region of Alicante was battered by flash flooding.

Thousands of supporters of a banned radical Islamist party have clashed with police in Pakistan for a second day in a row.

Russia's leaders believe they are "at war" with the UK and its allies but Britain is failing to deter the threat, a former spy who wrote an infamous dossier on Donald Trump has said.

Twenty seven schools in England are using a facial recognition system to take lunch payments from children, with 15 more due to start using the system shortly.

Retail sales volumes took a surprise dip last month to achieve their longest losing streak on record, according to official figures released as a measure of consumer confidence showed a slump to levels last seen in February.

Boris Johnson has repeated his call for those eligible to get their COVID-19 booster jabs over the coming weeks, insisting vaccines are the UK's "way through" the pandemic.