World Politics

Keir Starmer thanked supporters for the landslide victory and acknowledged "a mandate like this comes with a great responsibility".

Labour is on course for a majority of 166, as Reform UK and the Liberal Democrats take votes from the Tories. Video

Analysis - The story of this election is one of an electorate showing a determination to eject the Conservatives, the BBC's political editor says.

Labour is on course for a majority of 170, with the Lib Dems and Reform also eating into the Tory vote.

Efforts by mainstream parties to form a "republican front" to block the far-right might be working.

The Julian Assange saga has been going on for so long that most of us have probably forgotten how it started

The election is widely expected to bring Labour to power against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric.

Opinion polls indicate the results will hand power to Keir Starmer's Labour Party and end 14 years of Conservative Party-led government.

First-term senator Fatima Payman will quit Labor to sit on the crossbench, after becoming the first Labor MP in decades to defy her party in a vote to recognise Palestinian statehood.

President Joe Biden's conduct behind closed doors, in the Oval Office, on Air Force One and in meetings around the world is described in the same dual way by those who regularly see him in action.

The president's staff say the claim is "absolutely false".

Rudy Giuliani, who had his New York law license suspended in 2021 for making false statements around the election, is no longer allowed to practice law in the state.

"I nearly fell asleep on stage," the US president says amid panic over his fitness ahead of election season. Video

Opinion polls suggest the Conservatives will be punished for failing to deliver on promises made during 14 years in power.

And what comes next after the monumental decision.