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We rarely think about how essential and reliable electricity grids are until they fail.

The government is up for the fight over net zero every hour, day and month of the year, says Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.

"Powerful individuals" at the BBC are making the lives of their colleagues "unbearable", the corporation's chairman has said, after a review into its workplace culture.

This week's set of elections across England will be a series of firsts: it will be the first big ballot box test of Sir Keir Starmer's premiership and Kemi Badenoch's leadership of the Conservative Party.

A grandmother who claims she was sexually assaulted by a private paramedic on the way to hospital has told Sky News she has been failed by the ambulance service.

A man has been charged with multiple counts of murder after 11 people, including a five-year-old child, were killed in a vehicle attack in Vancouver.

When Canada goes to the polls today, it might be the second election Donald Trump wins in six months.

UK economic growth could be "postponed" for two years amid a toxic cocktail of headwinds for confidence, according to a respected forecast which says further interest rate cuts may help lift the mood.

The mother of a girl killed in a car crash says the government's lack of action on reducing the number of young fatalities is "not good enough anymore" – as the teenager responsible for her death was detained for two years.

The conclave to elect Pope Francis's successor will begin on 7 May, the Vatican has announced.

A coalition between the Conservatives and Reform would be a "disaster for Britain", Sir Keir Starmer has said as he defended his record on immigration.

How did one woman fool the most famous magic society on the planet?

In October 2016, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint - with jewellery worth millions of dollars stolen during the audacious heist in Paris.

A trade deal with the US is "possible" but not "certain", a senior minister has said as he struck a cautious tone about negotiations with the White House.

As Chancellor Rachel Reeves meets her counterpart, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent to discuss an "economic agreement" between the two countries, the latest trade figures confirm three realities that ought to shape negotiations.

Vladimir Putin has declared there will be a three-day ceasefire next week by Russia in its war in Ukraine.

Robots have raced against humans in a half-marathon for the first time.

NHS prescription charges in England will be frozen for the first time in three years, the government has announced.

"It has been a success."

Work to prepare the Sistine Chapel for the gathering of the cardinals to elect a new pope has begun.

A Palestinian diplomat has told the United Nations' top court that Israel is "starving, killing and displacing" civilians and targeting aid workers in Gaza.

A trial has started in France over the 2016 heist in which armed robbers tied up Kim Kardashian and stole millions of dollars' worth of jewellery during Paris Fashion Week.

An "exceptional and extraordinary" power outage has brought large parts of Portugal and Spain to a standstill. 

The strategic peninsula of Crimea is crucial in US-led efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine.