Andy Burnham fails to commit to Healey’s 3 per cent defence spending demand

Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham take up their roles after a row over defence spending plagued Sir Keir Starmer's final weeks at Number 10, amid mounting public pressure for the government to prioritise Britain’s ailing military

An England fan was left with serious injuries after the incident in Hackney

‘Balancing the books on the backs of the world's poorest is the wrong choice’

Miliband also called for calm in the conflict between Iran and the US, as Trump threatened to ‘bomb and destroy’ bridges and power stations

Ryley Hutson was pronounced dead at the scene

Rachel Reeves rejected joining the Global Defence Bank set up by Canadian PM Mark Carney, but her replacement John Healey is understood to be reconsidering it

Natalie Surr had also failed to inform Shirebrook Academy that she was in a relationship with a sex offender

The new funding announcement comes after the government already slashed the amount of aid it is set to provide to climate projects as part of its broader programme of aid cuts

After the country has been dried up by heatwaves and hot weather, a spell of rain is on the way, according to the Met Office

A man was left with serious head injuries in the assault just after 1am

Mr Burnham is the UK's fifth prime minister in four years. He replaces Sir Keir Starmer, who won a general election in 2024. In the latest episode of The Independent’s hit political podcast In The Room, Helen and Cleo discuss what might happen in the coming days, weeks and months, writes Maja Anushka

As the White House voices ‘deep concern’ over Ed Miliband’s appointment as foreign secretary, our community have made clear whose side they’re on

Lissie Harper said that politicians are ‘making decisions from behind a desk that will have real and lasting consequences’ for the families of victims

Skyrocketing temperatures impacts the insect’s ability to forage

George, who is second in line to the throne, is about to start his secondary schooling at Eton College

Travel consultant Laura Tait said the directive made her feel ‘overwhelmed’

The deaths of Christopher and Kayleigh Coll have been described as an ‘absolute tragedy’

Christopher and Kayleigh Coll were found dead in their van

Back-to-back heatwaves have taken a toll on the UK’s green spaces and farmland

Almost 30 years after Wilbert Awdry’s death, the managers of a trust ended up fighting HMRC in a bid to pay out less tax on the royalties

Matthew Wright has been accused alongside three others of conspiring to defraud the Environment Agency and Ofwat

Study visas for people from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan were halted in March by home secretary Shabana Mahmood, who claimed some were exploiting the asylum system

As new research shows that UK bumblebees are in sharp decline as a result of summer heatwaves, Helen Coffey says there are a number of other changes coming too.So what will the new normal look like?

PM says ‘we will honour the commitments we’ve made as part of Nato’ as defence secretary Streeting agrees Trump is right to ask for more spending

As the UK prepares to host the G20 summit next year, we have an opportunity to reset our commitment to international development, writes Marsha de Cordova

The new prime minister said ‘we will honour the commitments we’ve made as part of Nato’ as his defence secretary said Donald Trump is right to ask for more spending

Lindsay Foreman, who is now surviving on only water, has vowed to continue her hunger strike until death ‘to make sure everyone sees what is happening here’

It comes after widespread outrage at the early release of two of the perpetrators in the killing of PC Harper

High doses of caffeine can cause a significant increase in blood pressure and a risk of abnormal heart rhythms

Warnings of drought come as millions of households are hit by hosepipe bans across the country