There is "no way back" for the UK and Vladimir Putin's relationship, David Cameron has said. When pressed on a time when he took the Russian president to watch judo competitions at the Olympics in London during his time as prime min ...

Swift’s new album breaks another streaming record after already becoming the platform’s most-streamed album in a day

California has more people on death row than any other state in the country — and a governor who opposes capital punishment. A new audacious legal challenge to the death penalty in the state supreme court is seeking to finally end executions foreve ...

Gas and coal accounted for just 2.4% of power generation for an hour last week, data shows, amid ‘zero-carbon grid’ plans

Passengers numbers this year predicted to hit 82.4m but airport’s future uncertain, with proposed £6bn sale in doubt

Stock futures point to FTSE 100 index hitting a new record high when markets open

Index’s rise has been driven by the dollar’s strength against the pound – and that effect can reverse

Hopes of a UK interest rate cut and easing geopolitical tensions are not the only reasons for the intraday peak reached this morning

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UK’s blue-chip index rises to 8,076, surpassing previous high of 8,047 in February 2023

International Energy Agency says 17m vehicles will be sold this year, up more than 20% compared with 2023

‘The opportunistic criminals who want to manipulate your children into disturbing acts of sexual abuse are not a distant threat – they are trying to talk to them now on phones and devices you can find in any family home,’ expert warns

As the pound fell to its lowest point against the dollar for around five months, dropping to 0.2 per cent to $1.23, the blue-chip index leapt

The witness told investigators having a recorded interview would be a ‘risk’ for him in ‘the Trump world’

UK’s blue-chip index ended trading at 8,023, its highest close ever, as pound falls against dollar

Stories of dismay but also resilience as crisis in food production builds after 18 months of exceptionally wet weather

Official UK figures show 33% jump in deaths from alcohol-specific causes from 2019 – the highest since records began in 2001

Former president accused of falsifying business records to cover up an attempt to influence 2016 election

Folk singer revives music believed to have been rejected by hymn book committees, after she found recordings in archive

Lloyd Martin’s mother says her son ‘achieved his dream’