The number of small boat arrivals to the UK is down 42 per cent from the same period in 2025, at 12,214. Holly Bancroft reports

“He could have stomped me. He could have gored me,” Carl Isom-McDaniel said from his hospital bed after Yellowstone incident caught on camera

Former deputy PM shocks viewers with mid-sentence scream of ‘sit down’ – before adding: ‘Sorry, it’s a dog’

An initial probe suggests the pump injecting chlorine into the pool may have ruptured

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Wang will join the ASEAN-led meeting in the coming days and could meet on the sidelines

Dozens of new appointments have been announced – including some surprising returns to cabinet

An inquest has opened into the former MP’s death as police charge man with murder

An estimated 20 million customers are now in regions hit by bans

’If anyone’s going to do it, it will be him’, says Manchester homelessness charity boss

The prime minister has conducted a brutal purge of Starmer loyalists and made some shock appointments to key government roles. Here, The Independent looks at the main winners and losers of Andy Burnham’s reshuffle