The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

Her rival for the Tory leadership, Rishi Sunak, said he was telling the country what it needs to hear about the future.

A terminally ill mom told how she is now saving for winter fuel bills as well as her own funeral, and says the cold exacerbates pain from bone cancer.

Mikhail Gorbachev was a voice of sanity in a crazy cold war world, and his death marks the end of a particular era in 20th century history. During his time as leader of the Soviet Union (1985-1991), Gorbachev brought about enormous change in Russian politics and society, in international relations,…

No western leader could have predicted his progressive reforms. But war between his country and Ukraine was a devastating blow, says Archie Brown, an emeritus professor of politics at Oxford University

Former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind pays tribute to a great statesman

The monarch will meet the new Conservative Party leader next week.

Former Reagan administration officials pay tribute to unlikely pair who shared a determination to pull the world back from the brink of a superpower war

The lifelong communist took the reins at a tense time in the Cold War but eventually presided over the demise of the Soviet Union.

The last leader of the Soviet Union, he was ousted as his reforms pointing to the end of the USSR spiralled out of control