Humbled by a stinging election result, South Africa’s African National Congress was talking to everyone in an effort to form ...

A German police officer has died of injuries suffered during a knife attack that left five other people injured in the central square of Mannheim, officials said on Sunday. The officer, 29, was ...

Actor Michael Douglas on Sunday paid a solidarity visit to an Israeli kibbutz that was hit hard in the October 7 Hamas attack which sparked Israel’s war against the Islamic militant group. Douglas met ...

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer took the day off on Sunday as they sent members of the front bench out to the front line of the campaign. In Scotland, SNP leader John Swinney rallied the troops as ...

BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent has remembered the late rugby player Rob Burrow as the “smallest player on the pitch. But a giant of a man”. Leeds Rhinos, the former club of the ex-rugby league star, ...

The African National Congress party had already lost its 30-year majority after more than 99 of votes were counted by Saturday.

Former rugby league player Rob Burrow was among several players diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in recent years. Burrow, who has died aged 41, was just 37 and had three children under the ...

Veteran left-winger Diane Abbott has said she intends to “run and win” as a Labour candidate. Responding to reports suggesting she was still weighing up options, and was considering accepting a ...

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins has been promoting the Conservatives’ bid to boost community care, insisting it is part of reforms to make the NHS “faster, simpler and fairer”. The party’s first ...

John Swinney has urged people to “vote for a future made in Scotland, for Scotland” by backing the SNP, as he formally launched the party’s General Election campaign. Speaking to activists and ...

The families of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas have called for all parties to act fast to “bring our loved ones home”. Thousands of people marched from Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Holborn, to Richmond ...

Second World War veteran Richard Aldred said that “when I go to Normandy, I’ll guarantee to you I will shed a tear”, as he spoke of the effect returning to France will have on him ahead of the 80th ...