Confidence in the general economy has fallen significantly as “a ripple of fear” spreads about the effects of the Middle East conflict, figures show. GfK’s long-running consumer confidence index ...

Reform UK’s leader in Scotland has hit out at “fake outrage” over a joke he made about late pop star George Michael that he accepted was “probably homophobic”. Malcolm Offord said he has had a “huge ...

Israel has launched a new wave of strikes on Iran after US president Donald Trump claimed talks on ending the war were going ...

The US senate has approved Homeland Security funds to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents and most other agencies, but not the immigration enforcement operations at the heart of ...

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested Donald Trump’s criticism of him is an attempt to push him to change his stance on the Iran war but vowed not to “buckle” under the pressure.

Disabled drivers could face higher Motability costs after £300m tax changes force new charges and reduced allowances.

Donald Trump insisted talks with Iran are ‘going very well’ despite little information being known about the negotiations.

Jasjyot Singh, consumer relations boss at Lloyds, apologised for the incident on behalf of the bank in a letter disclosing the scope of the issue to Parliament’s Treasury Select Committee. The banking ...

Child Benefit payments will go up from this April, as the new 2026 figures for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) have confirmed. HMRC pays Child Benefit, and families with one child will now ...

Chat GPT creators OpenAI have discontinued a "mind-blowing" video app just over a year after it was first released in the UK. Sora is a programme that uses AI (artificial intelligence) to create short ...

A cloned sheep that helped pave the way for the creation of Dolly the sheep has gone on show at a rural life museum. Morag and her identical twin Megan were cloned from the same embryo and were the ...