Bitter postmortem under way as party comes to terms with Darline Graham’s stunning loss to Annie Andrews It’s not that Shane Brown somehow didn’t know about the US Senate election in South Carolina.

French prime minister’s office says Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome now heading to military base in Evreux ...

Tej Singh Bhandal, 68, was pulled from a queue and detained under terrorism law in ‘creeping criminalisation of protest action’ ...

Is there anything you would like to ask the former Ipswich, Rangers and England defender?

Overturning Citizens United is not enough. Campaigns must be funded with public money rather than private donations ...

Leeds and Edinburgh among areas hit by fireworks-related violence in previous years, as fire brigades union warns of insufficient resources ...

In 2015, two film-makers first met 11-year-old refugee Israa, forced to abandon Aleppo for a new life in Europe, along with her parents and siblings. None of them imagined what would come next ...

The tech industry spent big on the midterms, but it turned out to be a poor investment. Carter Sherman and Kai Wright are joined by Guardian US tech editor Blake Montgomery to ask what the ‘blue tsuna ...

An under-20s match in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais descended into chaos, with the referee handing out a record 53 red cards after a brawl ...

Ten-year high shows sterling’s strength against other currencies following fall of dollar after US midterm elections ...

Perth court orders 40-year-old woman, who cannot be identified, to stay 100 metres from Steele-John, his home and workplace ...

Cristiano ⁠Ronaldo has announced his ⁠intention ⁠to retire ​from the Portuguese football team after an international career that began in August 2003 ...