Yields on government bonds – which reflect the cost of government borrowing – continued to rise, up eight basis points to 4.89 for 10-year gilts, which is the highest since 2008. The cost of ...

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, will be honoured on Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National ...

Two lynx which were illegally released in the Scottish Highlands have been successfully captured – with experts warning the creatures could have died if they had remained in the wild.

A THIRD day of snow has brought more misery to those travelling in and out of Wirral this morning (Thursday, January 9).

The UK’s biggest supermarket chain reported UK and Ireland like-for-like sales, excluding fuel and VAT, up 3.7 over the six weeks to January 4.

Tesco is being urged to drop a trial involving Danone-funded midwives offering advice to customers on feeding infants. The midwives have been offered branded uniforms and undergone training by the ...

EastEnders star Paul Bradley, who plays Nigel Bates, has begun a new storyline where he reveals he has been diagnosed with young onset dementia.

The president-elect has often criticised his predecessor who is lying in state ahead of his funeral in Washington on Thursday ...

A community has paid tribute to a 14-year-old boy with a “pure heart” who was stabbed to death on a bus in south-east London. Aspiring rapper Kelyan Bokassa was fatally injured on a route 472 bus in ...