The cost of a two-year fixed rate mortgage has climbed above 6% while the equivalent rate on a five-year fixed rate mortgage has reached 5.67% but the headline figures belie the pain that households really face.

Rescuers are facing a race against time to find a missing submersible, which went missing near the wreck of the Titanic.

Rescuers face a race against time to find the missing submersible that lost contact near the wreck of the Titanic as its oxygen supply dwindles

For any journalist the danger with great stories is that can they get away from you, acquire a life of their own and start to mean something quite different to the one you tried to get across.

More than six million people with disabilities will begin receiving a one-off cost of living payment of £150 from Tuesday - but charities warn it "won't touch the sides".

Sir Elton John has said the reaction to Phillip Schofield's secret affair with a younger colleague was "totally homophobic".

More people than ever before are accessing fertility treatment in the UK, according to new figures, but more people than ever before are also paying for it.

Fraudsters on mopeds are driving head-first into motorists in a rising insurance scam that has claimed thousands of victims, authorities have warned. 

The government is being urged to launch a public inquiry into "systemic failings" at mental health hospitals across England.

To the very end, Boris Johnson and his dwindling band of supporters - and Rishi Sunak and the Tory high command - were outwitted by the Labour Party in the parliamentary battle over partygate.