Half the world’s population lives in a country that held an election in 2024. Over 70 countries went to the polls, making it ...

The health secretary Wes Streeting recently said that most young smokers will never be able to break their addiction, and ...

There is a two-stage process for defining a “less healthy” food or drink product. Although porridge is “in scope” of the ...

A clip circulating on social media is actually from Taipei in April, not the recent magnitude 7 earthquake off the coast of ...

Sir Keir Starmer claimed there’d been 9,400 returns and that is a 30% increase compared to last year, but there doesn’t ...

A joke video is being shared on social media with claims it shows a real legal case in Germany of a commercial pilot who lost ...

The methane-reducing cow feed additive is considered safe by food safety authorities in the approved doses. And contrary to ...

The Prime Minister claimed people were “worse off” at the end of the last government, but it’s unclear what time period or ...

The Prime Minister set out a series of pledges on the economy, policing, housing, education, energy and the NHS in a major ...

A picture shows Syria’s former President Bashar al-Assad and his wife in Moscow after the collapse of his regime. This is not true. The picture is a still from a video of the pair filmed in Aleppo, ...

An image of an aeroplane which has flown into the side of a road bridge shows a “horrific plane crash”. This isn’t a real plane crash. It is actually a piece of digital art. A dramatic image of an ...

This is not a real photo. It comes from a video uploaded to TikTok and created using artificial intelligence. An image is being shared on social media with claims it shows a prisoner who has been ...