London’s blue chip share index has tumbled lower following heavy falls in Asia after US President Donald Trump confirmed sweeping import levies on the UK and countries across the world. The FTSE 100 ...

Government officials and religious leaders are expected to pay their respects before the bodies are taken to the airport to be returned to the US.

Greenpeace activists have scaled a building outside the Foreign Office in protest over delays to signing an international treaty protecting oceans. Four protesters unfurled a banner as they suspended ...

The Nikkei in Japan tumbled 3 and China’s Hang Seng was around 1.5 lower after Mr Trump’s self-declared ‘liberation day’.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has told business chiefs that “clearly, there will be an economic impact” from Donald Trump’s tariffs, but the Government would respond with “cool and calm heads”.

An osprey which became an online star during the first Covid lockdown has returned to his nest after fears he might not come back this year following illness. Louis was unwell last year and was not ...

Halifax, Lloyds and Bank of Scotland are among the major banks shutting branches across the country in the coming weeks.

UK vehicle manufacturers may be forced to “review output in the face of constrained demand” because of Donald Trump’s tariffs, an industry body has warned. Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society ...

The death toll from the massive earthquake that hit Myanmar nearly a week ago has increased to 3,085 as more bodies were ...

Firefighters remain at the scene of a blaze which broke out on an industrial estate on Tuesday, leaving six people needing hospital treatment. Six fire engines went to Blairlinn industrial estate in ...

Mr Trump slapped a 10% tariff on US imports of UK goods, with Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds responding on Wednesday evening that the UK is still seeking to do a deal with the US that “we hope ...

The Foreign Office said the Foreign Secretary will tell allies at a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels on Thursday that boosting defence spending is the collective duty of Nato members to ...