The Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado didn't make it to Oslo in time to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in person, in an extraordinary day shrouded in uncertainty over her whereabouts.

Four Afghan youths who dressed up as the Peaky Blinders have been cautioned by the Taliban.

Homelessness charities have warned that ministers are "falling short of what is desperately needed to end Britain's homelessness crisis".

The CQC report should make worrying reading for NHS leaders. 

It's often claimed that in the House of Lords "all human life is there".

The Ministry of Defence have shared a picture of the British soldier who was killed in a "tragic accident" in Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy handed Donald Trump a revised plan for peace with Russia.

The US has intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump has said.

Tax changes announced in the budget could have "devastating, unintended consequences" on live music venues, including widespread closures and job losses, trade bodies have warned.

The US central bank has signalled a pause in interest rates cuts demanded by the president as it grapples pressures from both elevated inflation and a weak jobs market.

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.