Temperatures are also soaring in Europe where fire fighters have been working in increasingly difficult conditions accelerated by fossil fuel production. An alliance of French firefighter unions are ...

Thursday’s amber extreme heat warning from the Met Office covered a huge area of central England, stretching from London to Sheffield. The temperature at Kew reached 38.1 degrees Celsius, making it ...

As we face these record temperatures, what should the government be doing? It’s not clear exactly where Andy Burnham stands on the climate debate, and a decision on whether to allow new gas and oil ...

Every part of the criminal justice system is “understaffed, underinvested in, and overwhelmed by demand”. That’s the verdict of the President of the Police Superintendents’ Association, Nick Smart. He ...

Northern Ireland is no stranger to people being burned out of their homes, but increasingly there are new targets. In the riots in Belfast in early June following a horrific knife attack, the mobs of ...

In Colombia, emergency teams are continuing to search for survivors of Monday’s 7.4 magnitude earthquake. In the town of Pereira, a 32-year-old woman was brought out alive after rescuers dug two ...

The letter has been signed by the likes of Mark Rowley, the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and Maggie Blyth, who for years led the national policing response to violence against women and ...

One step the Trump administration has taken in recent days is intervening in the currency markets in an attempt to support the value of the Japanese Yen. We spoke to Robin Brooks, of the Brookings ...

There’s been outrage after it was revealed that President Trump swapped planes when flying back to the US from Turkey last month, using the plane he disembarked, and everybody on it, as a decoy, ...

Channel 4 has commissioned a brand-new series celebrating the landscapes, people and culture of Scotland’s unsung coastline for a new More4 series. Scotland’s Golden Coast, a new lifestyle series ...

For the latest in our Home Truths series, Joe Johnson is in Devon, exploring the coastal towns of Torquay and Ilfracombe.

Following a top-level Cobra meeting to discuss the impact of heatwaves and droughts, Andy Burnham has called on people not to use disposable barbeques to reduce the risk of starting fires. There have ...