One of Britain’s most prominent fintech unicorns has secured a payments services licence from UK regulators as it hunts for acquisition targets ahead of an eventual move to list its shares publicly.

The boss of a supermarket chain, a former head of communications for No 10 and an Olympic swimmer turned women's rights activist are among those to have received a peerage.

Some Australian kids are already outsmarting the government and the tech companies.

At least 22 people are dead and more than a dozen injured after a double building collapse in Morocco.

Iceland has announced it is boycotting next year's Eurovision over Israel's participation in the competition, saying taking part would "neither be a source of joy nor peace".

Police in Bristol are investigating a series of late-night attacks on men that they said "may be homophobic in nature".

Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy, an "outstanding" secondary in east London, humiliated pupils with harsh and harmful discipline; a damning safeguarding review has found.

The daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf, hours after officials said her mother would miss the ceremony.

GCHQ has released its annual Christmas challenge, with seven puzzles aimed to put the nation's codebreaking skills to the test.

The Chancellor Rachel Reeves has acknowledged there were "too many leaks" in the run-up to last month's budget.

Nearly one in five women in childbirth or labour feel their concerns are not taken seriously by NHS maternity services, new research has found.

Whatever your political bent or economic creed, it is hard to argue that the build up to last month's budget was anything but hapless.

Sophie Kinsella, the author of the Shopaholic series of novels, has died aged 55, her family have said.

Iran and Egypt have complained after FIFA scheduled a World Cup match between the two nations in Seattle to coincide with the city's LGBTQ+ Pride festival.

UK grown lettuce in pre-packaged sandwiches was the likely cause of the UK's largest ever STEC 0145 E. coli outbreak, a new report concludes.

Madeleine McCann's father has called for greater scrutiny of the UK media, describing the "huge toll" on his family from a "monstering" by sections of the press.

A huge takeover that would rock the entertainment industry looks imminent, with Netflix and Paramount fighting over Warner Bros Discovery (WBD).

A man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-partner's sister and her three children in a house fire.

A small number of British women received sperm from a donor with a cancer-causing gene while seeking fertility treatment abroad, a regulator has said.

A "depraved sexual predator" has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for two rapes and two sexual assaults.