A 72-year-old woman who joined Namibia’s underground independence movement in the 1970s is a strong contender to become its first female leader as the country voted in a presidential election.

Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanov Ivanchev have denied a charge of conspiracy to spy between August 30 2020 and February 8 2023.

Tai and Naiyahmi Yasharahyalah both deny charges of causing or allowing death, child cruelty and perverting the course of justice.

A man has been arrested by police investigating viral videos of women taken on nights out. The 27-year-old man from Bradford is being questioned after he was arrested on suspicion of stalking and ...

An explosion at a block of flats which left one man dead and three people injured is not suspicious, police have said. Graham Green, 50, was in the flat where the blast happened at Kellie Place, Alloa ...

A £50,000 reward has been offered in the hunt for a nationally important collection of early Scottish coins stolen from a ...

The broadcaster said as many MPs as possible should listen to the arguments for and against changing the law and make their own decision.

Vauxhall owner Stellantis’ decision to close its Luton factory, putting 1,100 jobs at risk, came after Government efforts to save the plant failed.

Mishal Husain, one of the presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, will be leaving the corporation in the new year. The 51-year-old journalist, also a host of The Today Debate and who fronted ...

Carol Vorderman has received an honorary doctor of science degree from the university where her son achieved a first class honours degree. The 63-year-old was awarded the honour from UWE Bristol in ...

Sir Keir Starmer has sidestepped calls to repeat Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ pledge of no more borrowing or tax rises following the Budget. The Prime Minister said he was “not going to write the next ...

Police are to search a landfill site for the body of a missing man who detectives believe was murdered and left in a bin.