For despairing parents who feel they have tried everything to get their teenager to put down their smartphone, there is an easy answer: call them. A quarter of people aged 18 to 34 ­confessed in a ...

A teenager was prescribed “dangerously high” levels of hormones that could have resulted in sudden death, a judge said as he warned of the perils of online transgender treatments. Sir Andrew McFarlane ...

Every constituency in Britain saw a rise in sickness benefit claims last year, with Conservative areas experiencing some of the biggest increases. Affluent southern areas have seen the numbers of ...

The Kinahan cartel is using a network of front companies, offshore accounts and proxies to evade sweeping US sanctions and explore new ways to launder its vast wealth. A wide-ranging investigation by ...

Challenge yourself with today’s puzzles. Are there two more soulful voices anywhere on the planet? At a time when technology plays tricks on listeners and makes very ordinary singers sound, well, ...

It is almost as though Ravi Shastri is willing the weather gods to do their worst, to bring monsoons and therefore moisture and greenness to the Test pitches for the five-match Test series against ...

Senior judges have confirmed that protesters do not gain legal “carte blanche” to vandalise property by arguing that they believe the victims support their cause. Activists accused of causing criminal ...

When Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, met President Macron of France for talks on the future of Europe’s security, the stakes were high. The supply of American armaments to Ukraine has been all but ...

Jeremy Hunt put tax cuts for workers and parents at the heart of his pre-­election budget as he ­declared that Britain’s economy was “turning the corner” and laid out his goal to abolish national ...

As the main thoroughfare through central Dublin, O’Connell Street is usually typical of a thriving and modern capital city, thronged with tourists, shoppers and locals. On Friday morning, though, ...

Protesters dressed as Hamas terrorists, praising Hitler and carrying antisemitic placards who “would not have looked out of place in Nazi Germany” are being hunted by police amid anger at the failure ...

Calls to remove GB News from television after Laurence Fox’s derogatory comments about a female journalist risk having a “chilling” effect on free speech, journalists have warned. Brendan O’Neill, a ...