Lord Lamont of Lerwick warned that a rival payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ if ...

A top Romanian court has asked the official electoral authority to recount and verify all of the ballots cast in the first ...

The Israeli military said its warplanes fired on southern Lebanon after detecting Hezbollah activity at a rocket storage ...

Georgia’s prime minister claimed the country had been subjected to ‘blackmail and manipulation’ from some of the bloc’s ...

Lewis Hamilton fears Mercedes’ refusal to allow him to leave his contract prematurely will put him on the backfoot at Ferrari.

Mr Putin said that over the past two days Russia had fired 100 missiles and 466 drones at Ukraine, saying they were a ...

Imposing restrictions on smartphones in schools without involving young people in the process risks their use becoming like “smoking behind the bike shed”, a top paediatrician has warned. Baroness ...

World number one Judd Trump dug in to see off John Higgins in a last-frame decider and book his place in the quarter-finals of the UK Championship, while Zhang Anda made a superb fightback to beat ...

A royal insider has ended his ‘omerta’ to lift the lid on confidential discussions of state he had at a rainy Battersea bus stop in 2020.

Iga Swiatek has described being given a one-month ban as the “worst experience of my life” as the tennis world was stunned by another doping case involving one of its most high-profile players. The ...

Daniel Khalife’s audacious escape from HMP Wandsworth in 2023 revealed significant problems with the prison system. But when the 23-year-old’s trial for spying charges began in October, a running ...

Lando Norris has hit back at Max Verstappen’s “comedy” claim that he would have won the world championship in the British driver’s McLaren. Verstappen saw off Norris’ title challenge to wrap up his ...