JERSEY Festival of Words has announced that a bestselling spy thriller author, whose work inspired the internationally acclaimed TV series “Slow Horses,” will take part in a headline event. Mick ...

Long A&E waits for people “who’ve paid into the NHS all of their lives” are “appalling”, the Health Secretary has said. Wes Streeting said he was determined to make changes to A&E but the “scale of ...

Public anger over the decision to strip winter fuel payments from millions of pensioners contributed to Labour’s hammering at the ballot box, Cabinet minister Wes Streeting has acknowledged. He said ...

Disgraced former Labour MP Mike Amesbury who quit after punching a constituent said he was “disappointed” but “not surprised” by Reform’s by-election victory in his seat, adding that Labour’s ...

Allowing pharmacists and other staff to refuse to take part in assisted dying is a “positive development” but “doesn’t change my view on the Bill as a whole”, the Health Secretary has said. Wes ...

British actress Aimee Lou Wood has said she criticised a Saturday Night Live sketch about her so she would not “spiral inwardly” as she did not rule out appearing on the show in the future. The White ...

Ford Motor Company says it expects to take a 1.5 billion dollar hit to its operating profit from tariffs this year and is withdrawing its full-year financial guidance due to the uncertainty created by ...

German legislators are set to vote on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz will become the country’s tenth chancellor since the Second World War. Mr Merz seeks to take the helm of the 27-nation ...

Romania’s interim president has appointed a new prime minister a day after Marcel Ciolacu stepped down following the failure of his coalition’s candidate to make the runoff in a rerun of the ...

Inequality continues to kill people on a “grand scale” across the world, experts have warned, with factors like poor housing and a lack of education and jobs influencing health more than genetics or ...

Mattel, the maker of Barbie dolls and other popular toys, has said it will have to raise prices for some products sold in the US to offset higher costs related to President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The ...

Food delivery giant Deliveroo has agreed to a takeover by its US rival DoorDash in a deal worth around £2.9 billion. San Francisco-based DoorDash will pay 180p a share in cash for London-listed ...