New rules for homeschooling children could have helped bolster the safety of murdered 10-year-old Sara Sharif, an MP has suggested. Munira Wilson described schools as “a key safeguarding partner” ...

The Metropolitan Police has sent a full file of evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service about a Premier League footballer accused of rape.

A minicab drove into a police cordon in Kilburn where two teenagers were stabbed. Police had closed off two parts of Kilburn High Road, with two crime scenes in place roughly 0.7 miles – or an ...

The UK government has shared advice on whether it is safe to travel to Los Angeles as the county faces wildfires.

The Chancellor could be forced into further tax hikes or cuts to spending plans to meet UK fiscal rules after a jump in government borrowing costs, economists have warned. State borrowing costs struck ...

Sir Sadiq Khan’s £24 million scheme to cut London’s Tube and train fares on Fridays to boost passenger numbers made “no noticeable difference” to demand, Transport for London (TfL) said. The Mayor of ...

The bodies’ recovery comes as Israel and Hamas are considering a ceasefire deal that would free the hostages and halt the fighting in Gaza.

The reporter for the Il Foglio daily was detained in Tehran on December 19, three days after she arrived on a journalist visa.

Department for Transport figures show as of January 1 there were 73,334 public electric vehicle charging devices.

Around 4,000 people are still without power while 4,500 are without water, though more sub-zero conditions overnight are expected to cause more disruption. The entire island was under weather warnings ...

UAE athlete Abdullah Hayayei was killed when he was hit by a metal pole during training in east London in 2017.

MPs will vote on Kemi Badenoch’s call for a national inquiry on grooming gangs after she warned that Sir Keir Starmer’s refusal to back it would fuel concerns about a “cover-up”. The Prime Minister ...