An extra £2.2 billion will be spent on the UK’s defence over the next year, the Chancellor is to announce at the spring statement. Rachel Reeves will say the UK must “move quickly in a changing world” ...

Rising borrowing costs are expected to eliminate the Chancellor’s headroom against her self-imposed fiscal rules.

The British Standards Institution said market participants can immediately start using the Overarching Principles Standard.

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the United States, including requiring ...

Under the Biden administration, federal prosecutors also took the death penalty off the table, but did not explain why.

The Queen has launched a new national honour to recognise the UK’s “reading heroes”, celebrating individuals who champion books. At a star-studded reception hosted at Clarence House on Tuesday, ...

Taoiseach Micheal Martin has accused the opposition of trying to bully and intimidate Ceann Comhairle Verona Murphy.

US vice president JD Vance said that he is joining his wife on a trip to Greenland, suggesting in an online video that global security is at stake. “We’re going to check out how things are going there ...

Democratic senator Mark Warner of Virginia denounced what he called a pattern of ‘careless, incompetent behaviour’ by the Trump administration.

The party leader shouted ‘boring’ and ‘loser’ as a number of demonstrators from the Stand Up To Racism group were escorted out of the event.