The NUJ and Amnesty International are among those to condemn the conduct of the PSNI outlined at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal.

Kate Forbes has been appointed as John Swinney’s Deputy First Minister as the SNP leader assembles his Cabinet. Ms Forbes had challenged Humza Yousaf for the SNP leadership last year but opted not to ...

Police in Northern Ireland undertook six-monthly trawls of the phone data of “troublemaker” journalists to see if they were in contact with officer sources, a tribunal has heard. Details of what was ...

Donald Trump’s approach to Nato is “misunderstood”, David Lammy said as he promised a Labour government would work with the Republican if he returned to the White House. On a visit to Washington, the ...

Mr Panesar has left the Workers Party of Britain eight days after announcing he would stand in the general election.

Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said the number of jail places cannot keep pace with the number of offenders sentenced to custody.

Police cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested demonstrators, hours after dozens marched to the home of the school’s president as city officials prepared ...

Urgent concerns have been raised over “devastating” tree felling at Bacton Wood, also known as Witton Wood, which North Norfolk MP Duncan ...

Tory MP Natalie Elphicke has defected to Labour, hitting out at the “broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic Government”. The Dover MP crossed the floor in the Commons just moments before ...

Artificial intelligence can now be used to predict how all of life’s molecules interact with each other with “unprecedented accuracy”, scientists have said. The program, called AlphaFold 3, could help ...

Children who routinely sleep less than others from when they are babies may be at increased risk of developing psychosis in early adulthood, new research shows. Researchers at the University of ...

Irish premier Simon Harris has hailed Bambie Thug and said it is “time to bring the Eurovision back to Ireland”. The Cork-born performer, 31, became the first Irish act to qualify for the grand final ...