PA MEDIA The UK's lead Brexit minister has called on the EU to "shake off any remaining ill will" over the UK's decision to leave the organisation. Lord Frost said the EU's previous threat to b

Posters promoted by the Swiss People's Party featured a woman in a black niqab and captions such as "Stop extremism!" and "Stop radical Islam!"! | EPA Switzerland has narrowly voted in favour of

Key Takeaways: The OECD wants to have an international agreement on how to tax tech giants by the summer. The new U.S. administration has indicated it will actively engage in the OECD negotiations. Digital taxes cau

The UK has said it will unilaterally extend grace periods for Irish Sea border checks | PA MEDIA DUP leader Arlene Foster has accused the Irish government of "ignoring" unionist concerns over the NI Protocol.

The UK has said it will unilaterally extend grace periods for Irish Sea border checks | PA MEDIA DUP leader Arlene Foster has accused the Irish government of "ignoring" unionist concerns over the NI Protocol.

The attack is being treated as attempted murder | EPA A man has injured seven people, three seriously, in a knife attack in a town in southern Sweden. The 22-year-old assailant struck in the centre of Vetlanda at abou

The figure, covering 2021 and 2022, is contained in a Department of Health and Social Care document for the NHS Pay Review Body. A 1% pay rise has been recommended for health workers Sir Keir Starmer has criticised

REUTERS The Italian government has blocked the export of an Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine shipment to Australia. The decision affects 250,000 doses of the vaccine produced at an AstraZeneca facility in Italy. Italy is

Key Takeaways: The government has embarked upon unprecedented public spending as the economy posted its sharpest contraction in more than 300 years in 2020. At Sunak’s last fiscal announcement in November, he un

Nicola Sturgeon is facing calls to resign over claims she misled parliament and breached the ministerial code regarding an unlawful investigation into Alex Salmond. Key Takeaways: Nicola Sturgeon gives evidence at in

One student was compensated after the university stopped clinical placements due to the pandemic. The pandemic has affected many universities, making some practical lessons impossible. File pic     A

Key Takeaway: A campaign group claims Boohoo is not doing enough to stop forced labour in the factories which make many of its clothes.   Boohoo and many of its suppliers are facing the possibility of a US

Reporters were gathered outside Barcelona's offices as they were searched by police on Monday | EPA Catalan police say they have made four arrests after searching the offices of Spanish side Barcelona. The ident

Key Takeaway: Ben Wallace says non-state actors can now turn their "ambitions into realities" by learning to make such weapons online. Ben Wallace has warned of the threat of more chemical attacks in

Nicolas Sarkozy appeared in court on Monday | REUTERS French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to three years in jail, two of them suspended, for corruption. He was convicted of trying to bribe a judge i

Key Takeaways: The vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine was the first shot to be approved and rolled out in the U.K. in December. That was soon followed by the shot developed by British frim AstraZeneca an

REUTERS A senior German immunologist has urged his country to change its mind and start allowing over-65s to receive the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. In a BBC interview, Carsten Watzl, head of the German Society for Immu

Three cases have been recorded in England and three in Scotland but one of the England cases has not been identified.   A hunt is under way for one of the first people in the UK believed to have contracted a Brazil

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has warned of an attempted military coup, after the country's armed forces said he and his cabinet must resign. The army "must obey the people and elected authorities," he told thous

British Airways owner IAG has called for digital health passes "to reopen our skies safely" as it posted a record loss for 2020 due to Covid disruption. IAG posted an operating loss of €7.4bn (£6.5bn) for last year after t

Key Takeaways: British-born jihadi bride Shamima Begum was 15 when she and two other schoolgirls from Bethnal Green, east London, ran away to Syria to join ISIS, leading to her UK citizenship being revoked. ISIS bride S

Key Takeaways: The government says the next phase of the vaccine rollout will focus on age groups rather than occupations. The next phase of COVID vaccinations will continue to prioritise people by age and not their occ

A German court has sentenced a former Syrian intelligence officer to four-and-a-half years in jail for complicity in crimes against humanity. Prosecutors in Koblenz successfully argued that Eyad al-Gharib, 44, had helped t

Key Takeaways: Cabinet Office minister Edward Argar also repeated the claim Covid contracts were only published an average of 17 days late - after the Mirror revealed the true figure was much higher. A Tory minister has

The NHS is facing a legal challenge over its data deal with controversial Silicon Valley firm Palantir, Sky News can reveal. Palantir, which has become notorious for its close ties to security services and immigration agen

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has warned the government's timeline for unlocking coronavirus restrictions won't be sped up - and could even be slowed as ministers remain "vigilant" against infection rates. Prime Minister B

Key Takeaways: In total, 726,000 jobs have been lost since the crisis began - however, the Office for National Statistics' latest unemployment figures show the number of people out of work versus those searching for work has

Key Takeaways - U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to announce Monday how and when lockdown restrictions will start to be lifted in England. - He is slated to give a televised press conference at 7 p.m. London tim

All schools in England will reopen to all pupils on 8 March under the prime minister's roadmap out of lockdown to be announced today, with outdoor after-school sports and activities also allowed to restart. And on the same

Key Takeaways - European banks have a much stronger capital position now than they did in 2008. - Governments haven’t announced that they are lifting financial support, but that would put pressure on certain firms, whic