Donald Trump’s lawyers have rested their defence without the former US president entering the witness box in his New York ...

Erpenbeck, who began as an opera director in the 1990s, wrote Kairos about the end of the Cold War in Germany, and will split the £50,000 prize money equally with the translator Michael Hofmann.

Irish Cabinet ministers have been briefed on plans to recognise Palestinian statehood by the end of the month, as Israel warned that the announcement will “fuel extremism and instability”. Irish and ...

Microsoft’s Copilot virtual assistant it to be expanded beyond being a personal assistant so it can support entire teams. The US tech giant said it would start rolling out a version of the chatbot ...

Top British boxer Sunny Edwards has said thieves broke into his home and stole a “prized” ring awarded to him when he became a world champion. Police were called at 2.13am on Monday to reports of a ...

Polish composer Jan A P Kaczmarek, who won a 2005 Oscar for the musical score of Finding Neverland, has died aged 71. Kaczmarek’s death was announced by Poland’s Music Foundation, which had been ...

A man accused of assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service has died in unexplained circumstances in a park. Matthew Trickett, 37, of Maidenhead, Berkshire, was also accused of foreign interference ...

People who were infected with deadly viruses as a result of the contaminated blood scandal could receive more than £2 million in compensation, according to Government documents. “Illustrative figures” ...

Ten nations and the EU have agreed to established a network of AI Safety Institutes, but China is not among them.

The Met Office has issued several weather warnings that will be in place across most of the UK from Tuesday (May 21) until Thursday (May 23).

Twenty of the thirty three winners attended and experienced the realities of working in a newsroom. It was an amazing but hard working day and those that came along were our top s ...

Scotland’s top police officer said she has been “shocked” by the lack of focus on frontline policing in Scotland since taking up her post seven months ago. Addressing the centenary conference of the ...