The primary competitors are the two dominant Kurdish parties: the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

Belgian wildcard Jelle Geens claimed his first T100 win at his very first attempt in Lake Las Vegas during a dramatic duel in the desert ...

Bedfordshire Police said one person had died and another had been taken to hospital with serious injuries following the incident in Cleat Hill.

The family of Dawn Sturgess have called on the Russian president to speak to the inquiry after her death in the Salisbury poisonings.

Security forces detained the man on Saturday in Bernau, just outside Berlin, and searched his home there, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office said.

The Health Secretary has said offering weight loss jabs to unemployed obese people is not “dystopian”. Wes Streeting said a trial to test if anti-obesity injections can increase employment and ease ...

Sainsbury's is trialling "hybrid checkouts" at some of its UK supermarkets as a new form of self-service for customers shopping ...

Islamic terror may get a “boost” in the UK following the death of Hamas’s leader, a former head of MI6 has said. Asked if a ceasefire in the Middle East is more likely, Sir John Sawers said the ...

The actor is running the Irish Life Dublin Marathon, with Emma Fogarty, who has the condition epidermolysis bullosa, joining him for the final 4km.

A senior minister has declined to rule out extending the freeze on income tax thresholds as speculation about possible tax increases in the Budget continued to mount.

The Franco-British Colloque was co-sponsored by Saint Gobain, ultimate owner of a company that was heavily criticised by the Grenfell Inquiry.

The NHS will not be fixed in a single Budget, the Health Secretary warned as he suggested hospitals will have to “play ball” on reform to benefit from extra funding. Wes Streeting confirmed on Sunday ...