Plaid Cymru fought off a challenge from Reform UK to win a key seat in the Senedd, snatching the traditionally Labour seat of Caerphilly.The result, which saw Labour come third, marks the first time the party has lost a vote in the former mining town in over a century and will come as a fresh blow to Sir Keir Starmer.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday a decision by the European Parliament to not move forward with the reform of the European Union's supply chain law for the time being "is unacceptable.

Amid all this muck, MP s want to know why the prince should continue to live in Royal Lodge, a mansion in Windsor Great Park, on which he pays a peppercorn rent. The scandal of the prince’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted paedophile, has dogged the monarchy for over a decade. Time, some MP s conclude, for Parliament to step in.

Compared with the breakneck pace of the Trump administration’s White House renovations, work to refurbish Canada’s Parliament could take 30 years.

Japan's parliament has elected Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister. On Tuesday, she replaced Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum.

The European Parliament has approved the creation of a memorial to honor the victims of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus.