UK share index down more than 10% from last month’s record high, as gold slumps and mortgage rates jump ...

PM will meet with the Commons liaison committee and chair the government’s Cobra emergency committee today ...

UK towns are overwhelmed with requests for more. And no wonder: inscribed on them are intimate flashes of the people we knew and loved, says life writing professor Anne Karpf ...

Paddington 2 co-creator Simon Farnaby branches out with adaptation of children’s classic boasting lively performances and some sharp gags ...

This novel is stacked with ideas about Black art and aesthetics – but its language is too clumsy and academic to bring them to life ...

The latest in our series of writers paying tribute to their go-to comfort films is a trip back to 1980 with Richard Linklater’s charming hangout comedy ...

Stocks slump in Asia and Europe, gold slides and investors brace for higher oil prices after US president’s threat ...

The former England forward started against Ajax but failed to make an impression and was hooked early on by Robin van Persie ...

A talking balsam flower asks an elderley yakuza to weigh up a life of violence and kindness in Baku Kinoshita’s quietly contemplative tale ...

More than 30 people face charges after collision between two trains that killed 57 people in February 2023 ...

The first time Kind starred in Nazi-spoof The Producers, he lost 30lb. Is he – and the West End – ready for his return? And why is he so worried about his old flatmate George Clooney?

Donald Gorske has eaten nearly 36,000 Big Macs. His verdict on the new Big Arch? ‘I think the Big Mac is better’ ...