3+ hour, 51+ min ago  (566+ words) Leading social media companies have cast doubt on the effectiveness of Sir Keir Starmer's social media ban for under-16s. The Prime Minister announced the ban in response to concerns social media is unsafe, making children miserable and could cause lasting…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago  (675+ words) Sailors on a drifting Russian warship fired several warning shots at a British-registered yacht in the English Channel to "prevent a possible collision, the Ministry of Defence (Mo D) said. The incident involving the Russian frigate Admiral Grigorovich and a 12-metre-long…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago  (594+ words) Sir Keir Starmer will seek to step up pressure on Russia with a package of new sanctions as he attends the G7 summit in France. The Prime Minister is also expected to hold bilateral meetings with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (358+ words) The SNP is stepping up pressure on Labour's Douglas Alexander, insisting that the Scottish Secretary must quit in the wake of documents showing his connections with former US ambassador Lord Peter Mandelson. Papers released earlier this week showed that Lord…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (615+ words) Video assistant referees will have new powers to intervene at this summer's World Cup if fouls are committed immediately before the ball is in play at set-pieces, the International Football Association Board has announced. The new measures will allow VAR…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (232+ words) A fire has swept through a building in a New Delhi neighbourhood, killing at least 21 people and injuring several others, police in India said. The building in the Malviya Nagar neighbourhood in the southern part of the city had a…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (556+ words) A "predatory" Syrian asylum seeker has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two women in Falkirk last year. Muhammad Sheikhi, 23, carried out both attacks in the early hours of Sunday November 30, close to the Hotel Cladhan where he had been…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (657+ words) Sir Keir Starmer has insisted he has complied with requests to hand over his Whats App messages relating to Lord Peter Mandelson's appointment as US ambassador, after it was revealed the Prime Minister uses disappearing messages on the communications app....

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (666+ words) A Westminster committee is being urged to investigate the "wider institutional questions" arising from Peter Murrell embezzling more than "400, 000 from the SNP. Shadow Scottish secretary Andrew Bowie said with First Minister John Swinney refusing to support an independent inquiry into…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (486+ words) Actor Sir Idris Elba and ice skating champions Dame Jayne Torvill and Sir Christopher Dean will be among those to receive honours at Windsor Castle on Tuesday. Some 68 people, including comedians Dame Meera Syal and Paul Elliott, one half of…...