Uruguay’s leftist opposition candidate, Yamandu Orsi, has became the country’s new President after a tight run-off contest.

Barclays has been fined £40 million by the UK’s financial watchdog for “reckless” conduct when securing funds from Qatari investors during the 2008 financial crash. The bank had been due to challenge ...

JD Wetherspoon has revealed the 664 pubs that will be open on Christmas Day in 2024. From Newcastle and Liverpool to Norwich and Birmingham, there are set to be Wetherpoon venues open all over the ...

The Prime Minister laid out plans for staff to be trained in relation to spiking and spotting predatory behaviour.

A DHL cargo plane has crashed into a house near the Lithuanian capital, killing at least one person. The head of the country’s police said plane crashed shortly before landing at Vilnius airport on ...

Storm Bert is bringing further widespread disruption with public transport badly affected after “devastating” flooding over the weekend. Several rail operators have cancelled services on Monday while ...

Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on a Lebanese army centre killed one soldier and wounded 18 others on a southwestern road, ...

More than 30 pilot whales stranded on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean after conservation workers and residents helped to refloat them by lifting them on sheets. Four of ...

Officers from the Welwyn Hatfield Neighbourhood Team have hosted the first in a new series of Hatfield beat surgeries.

Negotiators gathered in Busan, South Korea, on Monday in a final push to create a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution. It is the fifth time the world’s nations convened to craft a ...

Make UK said its study found that AI is increasingly being used across manufacturing, with benefits including increased efficiency and productivity. One in four of the 150 companies surveyed said they ...

Thousands of bar staff will be trained to deal with incidents of spiking under Government plans as Sir Keir Starmer demands joint action from police and hospitality chiefs to tackle violence against ...