A passenger spotted the Australian brushtail possum peering out from the display shelf at the departure terminal shop at Hobart Airport.

Oil prices have spiked as attacks on energy facilities in the Middle East have stepped up, heightening fears about major disruption to global supplies. The price of Brent crude oil was rising by about ...

The Office for National Statistics said regular earnings growth fell back to 3.8 in the three months to January.

The number of cases of meningitis linked to the Kent outbreak is likely to rise, a health leader has said, as experts look at whether the bacteria has become able to transmit more easily. Professor ...

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said Iranian intelligence minister Esmail Khatib had been killed in an overnight strike.

The US president said Israel would make no more attacks on Iran’s South Pars gas field but vowed to ‘massively blow it up’ if Qatar ...

Peers also rejected an attempt to overturn the move by MPs to decriminalise women terminating their own pregnancy.

Some economists had previously been expecting policymakers to deliver a cut, prior to the escalation of the war in Iran.

Scotland has become the second country in the UK to ban greyhound racing in just over 24 hours as MSPs backed a Bill to end the sport. The Greyhound Racing (Offences) (Scotland) Bill was supported by ...