The former Conservative chancellor has joined Nigel Farage’s party amid reports that he was recently rejected for a peerage by the Tories

Unrest has been continuing in Iran for two weeks, with crowds targeting the regime of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei

The US president has seen his approval ratings fall in recent months

The number of people who believe ‘Britishness’ is something you are born with has almost doubled in two years, according to new research

Security guarantees from the US and Europe top the agenda at Mar-a-Lago as Ukraine’s cities are pounded by Russian airstrikes

With ChatGPT alone having more than 800 million weekly users, artificial intelligence is changing the way we live

Jews around the world are celebrating Hanukah in the shadow of the attack in Sydney on Sunday, which left at least 15 people dead

The US president is increasingly taking the Kremlin line when it comes to the war in Ukraine and Europe in general

The chancellor has continued to defend her £26bn budget tax rises in the face of a standoff with the Office for Budget Responsibility

The party’s gathering in Liverpool hasn’t been short on division, but the matter of the name is at least settled

The chancellor has privately urged MPs to support Wednesday’s budget, which is expected to forgo a grand moment for a ‘smorgasbord’ of small tax rises

The House of Representatives is expected to force files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to be released, after Donald Trump dropped his opposition to a vote

The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has said that the UK’s asylum system is ‘out of control’

The 34-year-old socialist has become the city’s first Muslim mayor

The posthumous publication of Giuffre’s memoirs is bringing ongoing scrutiny of the former Duke of York’s links to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Warming oceans have probably driven the storm’s rapid intensification in the Caribbean, say scientists

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said he is committed to disarming Hamas and demilitarising the Gaza Strip

The disgraced royal has been stripped of his titles

The leader of the opposition’s speech to Conservative conference in Manchester focused on the economy