Iran has paused the process of implementing a new, stricter law on women’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, an official said.

France’s highest court has upheld an appeal court decision which found former president Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption ...

Chief magistrate Paul Goldspring said the Tate brothers had engaged in a ‘straightforward cheat of the revenue’.

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was killed on Tuesday by a bomb hidden in a scooter outside his apartment building in Moscow ...

Nasen Saadi, 20, of Croydon, south London, was also found guilty at Winchester Crown Court of the attempted murder of Ms Gray’s friend, 39-year-old Leanne Miles, as the pair were enjoying a late-night ...

Verona Murphy has become the first female speaker of the Irish parliament as part of a deal to form a coalition government. Ms Murphy, an independent TD for Wexford, defeated two Fianna Fail ...

Not guilty pleas have been entered on behalf of the teenager accused of killing three children at a dance class in Southport after he failed to speak in court. Axel Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, ...

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan and his producer wife Emma Thomas have said the King told them he liked Oppenheimer, as they received honours at Buckingham Palace. The Inception director formally received ...

Marcus Rashford could be involved in Thursday’s Carabao Cup last-eight tie between Spurs and Manchester United.

Sir Keir Starmer has denied MPs a vote on his Government’s decision to rule out compensation for women affected by changes to the state pension age, as he was accused of “betrayal” by his own MPs. The ...

Funding for councils next year will be boosted by more than £700 million for social care and the cost of changes to national insurance, the Government has announced. The provisional local government ...

Seven-month-old Charlie Goodall died after falling over in an ill-fitting bath seat as his mother, Danielle Massey, left him unsupervised.