The gender pay gap for full-time employees has continued to decline in the UK. It was 6.8 % in April 2026, down from 7.2% in April 2025. This compares with 9.4% a decade ago and 16.4% 25 years ago.

Two “beautiful” lion cubs have been born at Edinburgh Zoo, marking the first new arrivals of the endangered species in seven ...

I've written to the Energy Secretary to ask her to approve Rosebank without more delay✍️ pic.twitter.com/uIsd5LBe ...

A landmark exhibition featuring 300 glittering pieces will be staged at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace next year.

Some 9.6 of people aged 16 and over are estimated to have been the victim of domestic abuse in the year to March 2026.

A city in South Korea is trying to find a new way to free a huge dusky shark from a narrow canal. Workers in the port city of Busan had herded the shark, nicknamed Bukangi, out of the canal the day ...

Six-year-old Ivy Knighton-Leake, from Bradford, kicked off the 2026 launch in Manchester on Thursday morning, where she received a special poppy made from the metal of Second World War Spitfires, from ...

Dramatic new pictures have emerged from the scene of a two-car crash in Walshaw which led to road closures and a major emergency service response ...

Judges will be given more powers to banish killers to their cells and block prison visits if they refuse to face their victims’ families as they are sentenced.

Barclays expects to cut around 5,000 jobs by the end of 2026 as it adopts artificial intelligence to make operations more efficient.

The Government has hit back after Donald Trump’s lead negotiator on the Ukraine war described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “humanitarian”. Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy, made the remark ...

Drivers are warned that parking in supermarket car parks outside store opening hours could result in £100 fines under private parking rules.