The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new ...

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

Transgender people are “worried that people are coming after their right to exist” after the Supreme Court’s ruling, an MSP has said. The court handed down its decision on Wednesday in a long-running ...

New research shows that four people in 10 make major retirement mistake when it comes to knowing their DWP State Pension age ...

A minister has said she hopes the Supreme Court’s ruling on the legal definition of the term woman will draw a line under arguments over gender recognition, but accepted more “homework” needed to be ...

People taking part in this year's Uppies and Downies are being urged to be safe and look after each other by Cumbria Police.

Martin Lewis has highlighted a key issue for millions of workers who have just had a pay rise due to the increase in the national minimum wage.

Farmers, officials and industry leaders in Ivory Coast said fairer prices for cocoa are more urgent than ever before.

With Japan charging an average tax rate of 1.9% on other countries’ goods and having a long-standing alliance with the US, ...

The retailer said full-year sales, excluding fuel, rose by 4.2 to £26.6 billion as it increased its share of the UK grocery market.

A team from the University of Cambridge made the discovery on exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away from Earth.