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A tongue-in-cheek mobile game that lets players run the country from No 10 has climbed above Minecraft on the UK's…

The Met Police has apologised after a data breach exposed the email addresses of people who say they were victims…

As expected, the Reform UK leader easily won the Clacton by-election but was nowhere to be seen after the result.

Five years after the Taliban returned to power, Afghan women have told the BBC their lives are unrecognisable – from…

Saturday's national newspapers lead with the death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday and a sweeping government ban on disposable…

A national emergency alert has urged people across England and Wales not to light anything that could spark a wildfire,…

A BBC investigation has uncovered a network of Instagram accounts charging desperate migrants for paid advice on how to swim…

A major oil slick is washing onto Iranian beaches after a ship was attacked on 3 August, threatening vulnerable wildlife…

A UK specialist NHS service has admitted that the confidential medical details of transplant patients were transmitted across an unencrypted…

Prime Minister Andy Burnham chairs an emergency Cobra committee meeting.