Politics

The Liberal Democrats claim they’re “closing the gap” on sitting MP Zac Goldsmith in the Richmond by-election. The former Conservative MP triggered the vote over his opposition to the Government’s Heathrow expansion plans.

Donald Trump has been appointing more people to his top White House team, promising a “busy day” of meetings with more potential Cabinet picks. But behind the scenes, members of his own family are among his most trusted advisers, including daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner.

British companies have been told they’ll have to justify levels of executive pay, under new consultation plans unveiled by the Business Secretary Greg Clark.

Brazil has begun three days of national mourning after a charter plane carrying one of its top football teams crashed into the Colombian mountains, killing 75 people on board and leaving six survivors.

Interview with Karin von Hippel, former deputy assistant secretary of state at the US State Department.

A Thatcherite conservative or a middle of the road professional politician: however you describe him, the former French prime minister Francois Fillon is now the centre-right’s best hope of defeating the National Front’s Marine Le Pen.

The outgoing Ukip leader claims to have refashioned the politics of the centre right after Brexit. Now the party’s new leader says he wants to  wipe Labour off the electoral map.

Brexit could face a new legal challenge from a think tank which claims the UK could stay inside the single market, even if it leaves the European Union.

Donald Trump has begun planning his future White House team, but just when you thought it was over,  a recount of presidential election votes in the US state of Wisconsin will begin on Thursday.

David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and Yasmine Nahlawi, of the Manchester-based Syrian advocacy group, Rethink Rebuild.

Interview with Mark Toner, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department.

The frontlines in the battle of Aleppo are shifting, with Russian-backed Syrian forces now boast they’ve taken almost half of the besieged rebel-held east. But for the quarter of a million people who’ve been trapped under heavy bombardment for months, the future is no more certain.

Crewe Alexandra Football Club has tonight announced an independent review of its handling of allegations of abuse of young players by a former coach more than 20 years ago.

American writer Jon Lee Anderson, is writing a book about Fidel Castro. So what kind of legacy does Castro leaves behind?

Cubans living in exile in Miami have been celebrating Castro’s death. Hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled his regime, many to America. Jackie Long is there.