A minister has rejected that UK plans to bring in new trade measures to boost domestic steel production are reminiscent of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The Government wants up to 50% of steel ...

Iran has intensified its attacks on its Gulf Arab neighbours’ energy sites, hitting a Saudi refinery and setting Qatari liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities and two Kuwaiti oil refineries ablaze as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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