Ireland will double its local community funding in Lebanon, the country’s deputy premier has announced. Simon Harris is in Lebanon for a series of political engagements and to meet members of the ...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was taking action to grow the economy but said she was battling global instability.

The Office for Budget Responsibility said regulations which ‘affect the flexibility of businesses and labour markets’ can have ...

Thousands of Palestinians have marched between the wreckage of a heavily destroyed town in northern Gaza in the second day of anti-war protests, with many chanting against Hamas in a rare display of ...

Spring statement documents said the Government is ‘looking at options for reforms’ to Isas ‘that get the balance right between cash ...

A panel of justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered former president Jair Bolsonaro to stand trial over an alleged ...

Japanese cherry blossoms have bloomed in time for Mother’s Day at RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey. It can be difficult to predict when the trees will bloom each year, as it is heavily dependant on weather ...

Holyrood Finance Secretary Shona Robison said she has received confirmation from the Treasury that “there will be cuts to our block grant from the welfare cuts from 2026-27 onwards”.

Young women are being pressured into setting up OnlyFans accounts to raise money, an MP has said. Polly Billington said a domestic abuse charity in her East Thanet constituency had raised concerns ...

Hospitality firms and salon owners have said they are being “overloaded with extra costs” ahead of a rise in business rates in April. In Wednesday’s spring statement, Chancellor Rachel Reeves made no ...

Turkey’s president accused the political opposition of “sinking the economy” during the country’s largest protests in more than a decade over the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, the biggest challenger to ...