Death of 267th head of Catholic church triggers period of global mourning and Vatican conclave of cardinals to elect successor

“Such a strong country, such a strong people – and such a weak reaction,” Zelensky said.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that nine children were among those killed by Russian missile attacks on his home city of Kryvyi Rih yesterday, about 40 miles from the front line with...

Dan Norris who defeated Jacob Rees Mogg to become MP for North East Somerset and Hanham last year, was taken into custody after police raided his constituency home on Friday

Some 1,200 demonstrations are planned across the U.S. on Saturday in what organizers expect to be the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk since the administration launched its rapid-fire effort to put a conservative stamp on government.

It says it will maintain two shifts of production of its Rogue SUV at its Smyrna, Tennessee, plant following the announcement of new U.S. tariffs on automobiles.

"We've been vetting, I bet, to a standard that no other party has ever done before for local council elections,” Nigel Farage boasted last month

Nationwide rallies first major opposition protest since US president took office in January

Impoverished African country is hit with highest tariff rate at 50%, overturning decades of global trade policy

PM ready to ditch ‘old assumptions’ and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growth Keir Starmer is preparing to rethink key elements of the government’s economic policy in an emergency response to Donald Trump’s tariff blitz, amid growing concern in Downing Street that the US president’s trade war could do lasting damage to the UK. The prime minister believes, say allies, that “old assumptions should be discarded” in the UK’s response, suggesting he and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may be preparing to raise taxes again – despite having promised not to do so – or even possibly change their “iron clad” fiscal rules to allow more borrowing and fire up economic growth at home in the event of recession. Continue reading...

Stephen Hartley was announced as a Reform UK candidate in the Banbury Hardwick ward, but has since been suspended.

Frustration rise among Myanmar’s earthquake survivors as they face shortages of clean water, food, medicine and shelter.

Explaining the maths and economics of the US ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs

The four Army soldiers died in a training exercise in Lithuania. Trump chose to attend his personal business partners’ dinner Thursday and play golf Friday.

Relatives who waited agonising week before bodies were found speak of passion that drove Red Crescent workers • Our aid workers were brutally killed and thrown into a mass grave in Gaza. This must never happen again Gaza is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a civilian now that Israeli forces have resumed their military campaign with even more ferocity, but for the first responders who rush towards the wreckage of bombed buildings, the risks are multiplied many times over. The 15 paramedics and rescue workers whose bodies were found last weekend in a bulldozed pit outside Rafah knew they were putting their lives in peril to try to save others, but they could not have been prepared for what awaited them in the early hours of 23 March. Continue reading...

Number of cases of highly contagious disease so far this year now at more than double amount seen all of 2024

U.S. President Donald Trump showed off a giant chart on Wednesday full of new “reciprocal” tariffs, which start at 10 per cent and grow steeper for countries with larger trade deficits with the U.S. B...

More than a thousand events expected in a show of defiance against US president’s ‘authoritarian overreach’

The impact of the tariffs will be huge, with significant changes to long-standing global avenues of trade.

Judge Boasberg says administration acted in ‘bad faith’ to evade scrutiny over president’s Alien Enemies Act removals

European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.

Unique position could create more uncertainty for North’s ‘slow-growing economy’