More than 8,000 gender recognition certificates have been granted in the UK since their introduction 20 years ago. The Gender Recognition Act came into effect on April 4 2005, giving adults the right ...

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian delegation was in Paris for a round of bilateral and multilateral meetings with representatives of countries from the “coalition of the willing,” including France, Germany and ...

The Supreme Court said the terms woman and sex in the 2010 Equality Act ‘refer to a biological woman and biological sex’.

Transgender people are “worried that people are coming after their right to exist” after the Supreme Court’s ruling, an MSP has said. The court handed down its decision on Wednesday in a long-running ...

Chimps at a safari park have taken part in an Easter egg hunt as part of a project educating children about animal care. Primates living at Blair Drummond Safari and Adventure Park near Stirling ...

A minister has said she hopes the Supreme Court’s ruling on the legal definition of the term woman will draw a line under arguments over gender recognition, but accepted more “homework” needed to be ...

A team from the University of Cambridge made the discovery on exoplanet K2-18b, which is 124 light years away from Earth.

The retailer said full-year sales, excluding fuel, rose by 4.2 to £26.6 billion as it increased its share of the UK grocery market.

The King has hailed love as an important virtue across religions and one that the world “still needs” in a personal Easter message. It comes as he and the Queen are due to attend a Royal Maundy ...

Train passengers are being warned over disruption as Network Rail prepares to begin its Easter engineering work. The ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the key question in Canada’s election is who is best to deal with US President Donald Trump.

The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new year, state-run media reported on Thursday. It was not immediately clear ...