The UK government will publish an immigration white paper later this year including a review of visas to entice more high-skilled workers as part of its push to kickstart growth, Rachel Reeves has announced.more

In the latest world ranking of tennis players, Iga Świątek has reduced the gap to the leader Aryna Sabalenka to 186 points. In turn, Hubert Hurkacz has dropped out of the top "20" of the world ranking of tennis players after almost four years and dropped from 17th to 21st place.more

A quarter of people in England experienced poor NHS care over the last year but fewer than one in 10 of them complained about it, a report by the patient watchdog has revealed.more

UK pay growth rose in November despite evidence of employers cutting jobs after Rachel Reeves’s tax-raising budget, underlining a dilemma for the Bank of England as it considers cutting interest rates next month.more

The number of households waiting for social housing from London council hit an 11-year high last year, figures show. A councils' group has called for more social housing to be built amid a growing national shortage of social homes.more

Barcelona, ​​with Wojciech Szczęsny in goal and Robert Lewandowski playing from the 60th minute, defeated Valencia 7:1 in the 21st round of the Spanish top league, leading 5:0 at half-time. The Polish striker scored one goal for the hosts - his 17th goal this season.more

Alexander Lukashenko has secured a seventh five-year term as Belarusian president in a resounding election victory that western governments have rejected as a sham. Lukashenko won 86.8% of the vote in Sunday’s election, according to results published by the country’s electoral commission.more

Two hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, in the latest landmark in the campaign to reinvent Britain’s working week.more

Jannik Sinner defeated German tennis player Alexander Zverev 6-3, 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 in the final of the Australian Open Grand Slam. The 23-year-old Italian, who is the world number one, repeated his success from a year ago in Melbourne.more

King Charles will become the first British head of state to visit Auschwitz when he tours the former Nazi concentration camp to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation. The King will travel to Poland to join survivors and other dignitaries for a special service, at the end of which he will lay a light of remembrance to honour those who lost their lives.more

Pharmacy leaders have issued a fresh warning over the online sale of weight-loss jabs insisting there is still a risk to patient safety.more

Africa saw more than 3,400 terrorist attacks last year, killing almost 14,000 people. No other part of the world saw as many attacks or terrorist victims.more

Paweł Wąsek was fourth, Aleksander Zniszczoł - 15th, Piotr Żyła - 18th, and Jakub Wolny - 32nd in Sunday's World Cup competition on the mammoth hill in Oberstdorf, Germany. The Slovenian Domen Prevc won ahead of the Norwegian Johann Andre Forfang and the Austrian Michael Hayboeck.more

Yellow warnings for wind and heavy rain have been issued for parts of the UK as a new storm arrives in the wake of Éowyn. The Met Office says Storm Herminia, which first hit parts of Spain and France, brings with it the possibility of injuries and "danger to life". Storm Éowyn left two people dead after hitting the UK and the Republic of Ireland last week.more

In 2024, as many as 33.4% of internet users in the European Union aged 16-74 took advantage of online education. This is 3.3 percentage points more than in the previous year, according to data published by Eurostat.more

Poland, which spends the highest percentage of GDP on defence among NATO countries, has become a leading military power in Europe, but its priority is still to maintain the US's involvement in the defence of the continent, the British weekly "Economist" assessed.more

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is set to hire 5,000 additional tax inspectors as part of a major clampdown on small businesses and their owners. The expansion, revealed in the HMRC Customer Service & Accounts report published yesterday, aims to secure £6.5billion in additional revenue by 2029/30.more

Real Madrid, thanks to a hat-trick from Kylian Mbappe, beat Real Valladolid 3-0 away in the 21st round of the Spanish top flight, allowing Carlo Ancelotti's team to extend their lead over second-placed local rivals Atletico to four points.more

The ten cities with the mouldiest and dampest homes in the UK have been revealed — with a quarter of homes in the top spot "in appalling conditions". Top of the unwelcome list is Plymouth, with 25% of homes in the port city dealing with mould and damp, leaving them exposed to severe health problems.more

Defending English football champions Manchester City beat Chelsea 3-1 at home in round 23 to move up to fourth in the table.more

The image of penguins as monogamous has been shattered. Until recently, it was thought that these birds mate for life. Now, scientists have proven that in the little penguin colonies on Australia's Philip Island, "divorce" is common, as are occasional sexual flings and even regular promiscuity.more

For years there has been debate about a mythical creature inhabiting Scotland's Loch Ness Lake. The monster's existence has never been officially confirmed, which has not stopped speculation fueled by blurry photographs. Its myth is now being dissected by Oxford University professor Tim Coulson, who gives arguments that the mysterious animal does not exist.more

Piotr Żyła was 17th, Jakub Wolny - 22nd, Aleksander Zniszczoł - 28th, Kamil Stoch - 32nd, and Paweł Wąsek - 35th in Saturday's World Cup competition on the mammoth hill in Oberstdorf. The Slovenian Timi Zajc won ahead of the Norwegian Johann Andre Forfang and his compatriot Domen Prevc.more

The most popular name for a girl in 2024 was Maja, and for a boy, Nikodem, the Ministry of Digital Affairs reported. The least popular names included Wiesława and Wacław.more

In 2024, the average tenant in the UK paid nearly £10,000 in rent, with tenants in London facing costs upwards of £15,000. One in 10 renters (11%) spent more than two-thirds of their take-home pay on housing.more