Boris Johnson has dismissed as "ludicrous" claims the Brexit campaign he backed broke election spending rules, amid calls for the police to investigate.

What did you expect? You tell the world about your lifestyle, your habits, your likes and dislikes, your hopes, dreams and fears. And then you discover that the world is not offering a sympathetic ear, but instead milking you for all you’re worth?

Politicians and regulators are demanding answers from the social media giant in the wake of revelations about the use of users’ personal information, writes Ben Brody

Latest: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been summoned to give evidence before the parliamentary inquiry into fake news after revelations about users' personal data held by British firm Cambridge Analytica (CA).

The EU will demand that European law continues to apply in the UK during the planned transition period after it leaves the bloc, according to the latest Brussels negotiating guidelines.

Amazon shoppers are being offered the chance to buy bomb-making components while innocently purchasing other items, an investigation has revealed.

A man who carried his disabled mother from the top floor of Grenfell Tower has described how they made their escape.

Channel 4 News committed a "serious breach" of broadcasting rules, after it wrongly identified the Westminster terror attacker, Ofcom has said.

Paying £10,000 to a convicted child rapist to infiltrate a paedophile gang "crossed a line", it has been claimed.

The London Fire Commissioner defended the controversial advice for residents to stay put as the flames spread, insisting it was the right way to act in most cases.

Labour's manifesto will offer a vision of a Britain in which "nobody is ignored, nobody is forgotten, nobody is left behind", Jeremy Corbyn has said.

Jeremy Corbyn has received an apparent boost in his battle to remain the Labour leader in the UK after a British High Court ruling said new party members should be allowed to vote in the leadership election.

The family of a man accused of a violent, sustained, and unprovoked knife attack at Leytonstone Tube station contacted police three weeks before the incident asking for help, it has emerged.

German chancellor Angela Merkel has reportedly singled out Ireland as one of three countries not taking enough refugees in the migrant crisis.

Jack Warner’s legal battle against extradition to the United States on corruption charges could ’possibly last years’ and even end up being heard by the Privy Council, the Attorney General of Trinidad has said.

Britain’s major supermarkets are investigating allegations that workers who grow the salads and winter vegetables they sell are routinely mistreated and cheated out of pay.

Smoking strong skunk cannabis left Channel 4 News host Jon Snow more “frightened” than he was reporting from warzones.

Channel 4 News breached broadcasting rules over its coverage of the Ellison review into possible police corruption around the Stephen Lawrence case, according to communications watchdog Ofcom.

Nick Clegg has accused Ukip leader Nigel Farage of using the Paris shooting to make “political points” and to imply British Muslims are “part of the problem”.

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Russell Brand has threatened to take legal action over a report containing claims about his housing arrangements.

Russell Brand has threatened to take legal action over a report containing claims about his housing arrangements.

Russell Brand lost his cool with a journalist in Downing Street when he was asked how much he paid to rent his home.

Questions have been raised about British Government plans to introduce enhanced screening for Ebola at major airports and terminals, after Gatwick said it knew nothing about the measures.

The parents of five-year-old brain cancer patient Ashya King have spent another night away from their son as relatives and supporters continued to demand their release from detention.

A child protection campaigner has warned that the sexual exploitation of youngsters in the UK is a much wider issue than had been acknowledged.

Just days after a Copenhagen zoo sparked global outrage by putting down a healthy giraffe named Marius, another Danish zoo says it may do the same thing to a giraffe with the same name.

It has been claimed that the National Security Agency in the US has collected up to 200 million text messages a day from across the world.

UK Independence Party (Ukip) leader Nigel Farage admitted he was “pretty hacked off” after the actions of an outspoken MEP overshadowed its annual conference.

Neon colours and geometric forms at Roksanda Ilincic and pastel-coloured lace and cashmere at Burberry Prorsum offered contrasting interpretations of femininity at London Fashion Week yesterday.

The mother of two teenage daughters who died by suicide has called for the controversial ask.fm website to be shut down.

One of the two teenagers injured in an acid attack in Zanzibar has been discharged from hospital.

David Cameron will today meet Russian President Vladimir Putin for talks on the Syrian crisis amid fears that differences between Moscow and the West are pushing the two sides towards a new Cold War.

Two men have been arrested after separate attacks on mosques following the terrorist incident in Woolwich.

Frankie Dettori admits he is nervous of the reception he will be afforded when he makes his planned return to race-riding at Leicester on Monday evening.

Jockey Frankie Dettori said he was “very ashamed and embarrassed” after being banned for six months after testing positive for cocaine.

Jockey Frankie Dettori said he was “very ashamed and embarrassed” after being banned for six months after testing positive for cocaine.

Police in Britain have spoken to more than 30 former female pupils of a prestigious music school who have reported historic sexual abuse.

Leaked emails suggest that Newsnight editor Peter Rippon played down the importance of an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s alleged child abuse, saying the victims were “teenagers, not too young” and the abuse was not the “worst kind of sexual offences”.

A Newsnight reporter alleged that her editor tried to “kill” the Jimmy Savile story by making “impossible editorial demands” and saying the women who spoke out about the TV star were not too young at the time of the incidents.

Karl Lagerfeld thinks being overweight is "much more dangerous" than being underweight.

The teacher of missing schoolgirl Megan Stammers was in custody in France tonight as the teenager’s family expressed their joy that she had been found.

Former Barclays boss Bob Diamond will make an explosive appearance before MPs today after dragging senior Bank of England and UK government figures into the rate-rigging scandal.

Enda Kenny made political history yesterday when he appeared to hold a press conference with just one little thing missing — the press.