The Gender Recognition Act came into effect on April 4 2005, giving adults the right to legally change the sex that was recorded on their birth certificate. This is done by applying for a gender ...

The head of Myanmar’s military government has granted amnesty to around 4,900 prisoners to mark the country’s traditional new ...

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

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 ...

From Haskins to Blue Diamond, here are the Easter bank holiday opening times for six garden centre chains in the UK.

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 ...

New research shows that four people in 10 make major retirement mistake when it comes to knowing their DWP State Pension age ...

With Japan charging an average tax rate of 1.9% on other countries’ goods and having a long-standing alliance with the US, ...

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has promised Malaysia and Vietnam greater access to Chinese markets as he tours south-east Asia ...