How this ends is still so uncertain, but what is clear is that Boris Johnson is now in the throes of the most acute political crisis of his premiership.

US inflation has hit 7% for the first time in 40 years in the latest sign of the cost of living pressures squeezing consumers across the globe.

Firearms negotiators are currently in the fourth day of talks with a man who has barricaded himself and his young son in a house.

Boris Johnson's landslide general election victory in 2019 secured his position in Number 10, but he can only stay in post with the backing of Conservative backbench MPs - and there are signs he could be at risk of losing that support.

Ted Lasso, Succession and The Power Of The Dog lead the nominations in this year's Screen Actors' Guild (SAG) Awards - which is largely seen as a warm-up to the Oscars.

The eight-year jail term for the mother of murdered toddler Star Hobson has been referred to the Court of Appeal after it was deemed "unduly lenient" by the attorney general.

Bereaved families have accused Boris Johnson of pouring "salt into the wounds" by saying he didn't know the drinks in the Downing Street garden amounted to a party.

The German car manufacturing industry is, arguably, the most competitive in the world.

Some of the oldest ever fossils to have been affirmatively identified as belonging to Homo sapiens have been discovered to be even older than previously thought.

"It's a Russian military ship… The distance from us is about four and a half miles," the young commander of a Ukrainian gunboat said, pointing to a marker on his radar screen.