At 11pm on Tuesday night, a group of 47 migrants boarded a flimsy black dinghy under light snowfall on the northern French coast. They were among 409 who departed for England on eight small boats that ...

One of ARM’s co-founders has called on SoftBank to float the Cambridge chip giant in both London and New York. Jamie Urquhart, the most senior of ARM’s dozen co-founders when it was spun out of Acorn ...

Some care homes have staff absence rates of 75 per cent and may need to follow NHS trusts in declaring “critical incidents”, an industry group said. Mario Kreft, the chairman of Care Forum Wales, said ...

Stonewall came into being three decades ago in reaction to the passage of Section 28, a law that prevented the promotion of homosexuality by local authorities in schools. The campaign group’s efforts ...

Europe’s Ryder Cup pedigree eclipses that of their American opponents this week and it can be distilled into one number: 25½. That is how many match points all 12 USA players have achieved combined; ...

It’s a bright Friday morning at the top of the BT Tower. A masked Suggs takes in the view, raises his arms and bellows: “Londaaaaaan!” He remembers being up here as a boy when it was snowy, dropping ...

Dozens more restaurants run by prisoners could be opened to the public under plans to boost job training for inmates. The programme by the rehabilitation charity Clink will be expanded from four to 74 ...

The referee Lee Mason has been taken out of the firing line after his involvement in two overturned red cards and will not take charge of any Premier League matches or be the video assistant referee ...

More than a week after the Capitol riots, the shockwaves continue to reverberate through American politics and around the world. One of the more urgent questions many in the West are now asking ...

When the Kray twins ruled the East End of London in the 1960s, organised crime was a man’s world where bosses controlled their illicit businesses through the threat of physical violence. But times ...

Christmas in New York, that reliable fairy-tale cliché that has been the setting for more spirit-lifting movies than perhaps anywhere on Earth, is a place for mixed emotions this year. On the one hand ...

So seductive was the unveiling of Mikel Arteta a year ago that the doubters were immediately disarmed. To those who wondered if Arsenal’s former captain was too young, at 37, and too inexperienced to ...