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Sir Keir Starmer has rejected civil servants' demands for a four-day working week, hours after a minister said: "We're not living in the 1970s." 

A body has been recovered from a South African mine after police cut off basic supplies in an effort to force around 4,000 illegal miners to resurface. 

There is a dilemma at the heart of global climate talks. 

With just under six weeks to go to Christmas Day, the countdown has officially begun, with all the big brands rolling out their seasonal adverts. 

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has criticised post-financial crash regulation, saying it has "gone too far" - setting a course for cutting red tape in her first speech to Britain's most important…

A murderer who stabbed a man in the heart in retaliation for reportedly being hit on the head with a beer can has been jailed for a minimum of 17…

A prisoner who has served 12 years in jail for stealing a mobile phone was unable to attend a psychiatric assessment because of a lack of staff, his family claims. 

A man accused of being a major supplier of the boats and engines used by cross-Channel people smugglers to bring migrants to the UK has been arrested. 

A weather warning has been issued for parts of Spain, as the country counts the cost of recent flooding. 

A 60-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of manslaughter after three people died at a Swanage care home has been released without charge.