Ms McAllan also rejected claims that Mr Swinney is “yesterday’s man”. He previously led the SNP from 2000 to 2004, stepping down after a string of poor election results. He served as Ms Sturgeon’s ...

The Conservative Party chairman has appealed to Tory MPs “wait through the weekend” after a bruising first set of local election results, insisting Rishi Sunak is “the right man” to lead the party.

A backlash over Labour’s stance on Gaza saw the party lose control of Oldham Council amid otherwise positive local election results. Independent candidates, several of whom explicitly campaigned in ...

German’s top diplomat has said that Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an “absolutely intolerable” cyberattack. Relations between the two ...

The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state jumped to 29 as of Thursday night, with another 60 people missing, according to the state’s civil defence agency. The ...

Black Sails and Jane Eyre star Toby Stephens will join as hot-shot family lawyer Archie Moore as Annabel Scholey, Fiona Button, Deborah Findlay, Ian McElhinney, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Elizabeth ...

Insurers have raised concerns about fake and manipulated images being used in claims. Some people are using advances in technology to try to make claims for incidents that may never have happened in ...

Los Angeles police have begun removing barricades at a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ encampment on the UCLA campus. The move ...

Hamas is considering the latest proposal to end hostilities in Gaza, which have killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and ...

Dror Or, a 49-year-old held captive in Gaza, has died, the Hostages Families Forum said on Friday. Mr Or marks the 38th hostage killed, the forum said. He was one of about 250 people abducted when ...

Pro-Palestinian protesters are camping on university campuses across Australia, with some scuffling with pro-Israel protesters in Sydney – mirroring similar events in the United States. Students have ...

It came as the company, which also runs Crowne Plaza hotels, continued to expand by opening more than 6,200 rooms across 46 hotels.