The Trump administration is placing US Agency for International Development (USAID) direct-hire staffers around the world on leave, except those deemed essential. A notice posted online on Tuesday ...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered the state-run oil company Ecopetrol to cancel a joint venture with a US-owned company, citing environmental concerns. The partnership was expected to produce ...

The row was resolved after Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy weighed in – in favour of the opposition – on Monday night.

The Government’s plan to make it easier to build on already-developed parts of the green belt is “largely redundant” and could have a limited impact on housebuilding, a Lords committee has said.

The UK Prime Minister welcomed Denmark’s announcement of a new military to defend the Arctic from ‘hostile activity’.

Metro and the Daily Express splash on the findings from a team of experts, made up of 14 neonatologists and paediatric specialists, who say “bad medical care” and natural causes led to the deaths of ...

British photographer Ian Wood came first for his humorous image of a Eurasian badger looking up at graffiti depicting a ...

Inspectors have revealed “deeply depressing” findings into female prisons as rates of self-harm are 8.5 times higher than male jails, including a “bizarre rule” set to be changed that does not allow ...

The rising cost of childcare and reduced access to it in recent years have been raised by Britain’s human rights watchdog as it submitted a report to the United Nations (UN).

Rain Newton-Smith will say in a speech that the UK must not listen to the ‘siren call of protectionism’ in its trade policy.