Britain has urged France to speed up plans to intercept irregular migrants in shallow waters, after what one minister called “pretty shocking” scenes on Saturday when almost 1,200 such crossings were ...

AstraZeneca has unveiled positive trial results for a breast cancer drug that can stop mutating tumours before they start to grow, hoping it will be one of a portfolio of medicines that will propel it ...

Stanley Fischer, a former top policymaker at the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of Israel whose thinking was highly influential among generations of economists, has died at the age of 81.

In April, in the midst of high market volatility, the BoC kept overnight interest rates unchanged at a target of 2.75 per ...

This all leaves us with a corporation tax return that now has 985 boxes. Tax disputes take longer to resolve than ever, with ...

Defence secretary John Healey has said Britain must “prepare for war” but admitted ahead of the publication of the government’s strategic defence review he was struggling to halt a decline in the size ...

Jobs and investment were top of mind for many who attended the event marking the culmination of a long-running saga that began in late 2023, when Japan’s Nippon Steel agreed to buy the 124-year-old US ...

Trump “looks at the Constitution as a means to an end” and when judges rule against him, “he sees both those judges and the Constitution as obstacles to his political success”, Butler added. With ...

And as with every crisis, data doesn’t just show us the way through it — it reveals opportunity. The UN’s 2050 target date for reaching net zero, balancing the release of emissions with those removed ...

After 17 years, the government has returned a very different bank to private ownership. This is how it happened ...

Boeing chief executive Kelly Ortberg said he was working with the Trump administration to ensure the company was not “an ...

Iran has been seeking to bolster its air defences as the military prepares for the possibility of an Israeli or US strike ...