UK immigration reforms: Home Secretary hints at changes to settled status rules

Australia vs Brazil LIVE: Team news as Rayan rewarded for sparing Selecao humiliation

Rayan scored a 95th-minute equaliser to spare Brazil embarrassment in their first meeting on Friday

Russia's ballistic missile and jet-propelled drone blitz keeps Kyiv on edge

Ukraine’s air force says Russia has fired ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones at Kyiv

Europe warned over diesel crisis despite fears of Trump banning exports receding

Sylvester Stallone gives blunt take on his new biopic: 'Not dead yet'

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What is the triple lock on state pensions and why has it been controversial?

Speculation has mounted that the state pension triple lock could eventually be reformed to help fund social care.

High-ranking Royal Navy sailor ‘abandoned night watch duty’ while trainee looked after £143 million ship

Lieutenant Samuel Hanney appeared before Bulford Military Court charged with negligent performance of a duty

Climate aid driving up public debt of poorest countries by billions of pounds each year

New Independent analysis reveals how many of the poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries are being priced out of the climate aid system, while countries able to access aid are seeing billions added to their already-critical levels of national debt. Nick Ferris reports

OpenAI makes formal apology after AI agent hacked government data in Australia

Questions surround counterterror probe into US air base after suspects were freed on bail

The U.K.'s counterterror police have released five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot targeting a U.S.-operated air force base in England

Video shows Iranian police beating, sexually humiliating teenage detainee

A video posted in mid-September showing Iranian police officers beating and sexually harassing an arrested teenage boy has caused widespread outrage in Iran. Experts say such mistreatment of people accused of common crimes is frequent in Iran, but the footage provides rare visual evidence of what they describe as a recurring practice within the police force.

What is the state pension triple lock and how much would pensioners lose if it’s scrapped?

Pensioners would be thousands of pounds worse off without the policy, analysis shows

Politician beaten to death after radio interview promoting Ebola awareness

The deadly disease has killed nearly 4,000 people since May as the DRC struggles with a shortage of healthcare workers