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Bank of England issues mortgage rate warning to 4.4 million homes and sounds Trump trade alarm

Around half the UK’s mortgage holders face paying higher rates over the next three years, the Bank of England has warned, while sounding alarm...

Business

Investors do well by Jove with £3.6m insurtech investment

A British insurance company which covers contractors when they undertake work in multiple countries has raised more than £3.5m in funding to help accelerate...

Science

JWST Findings Reveal Supermassive Black Holes Might Be Linked to Big Bang

Astronomers have been perplexed by the existence of supermassive black holes detected during the universe’s earliest phases, just a few hundred million years after...

Science

ISRO to Launch ESA Proba-3 Mission That Aims to Study the Sun

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will deploy the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 mission on December 4, 2024, using its Polar Satellite Launch...

Science

This Asteroid Is Confirmed to Be the Smallest Documented Space Rock

An asteroid, identified as 2022 WJ1, exploded in a bright green fireball above southern Ontario on November 19, 2022, according to a new study...

Politics

Why The Great British Bake Off’s Prue Leith wants assisted dying bill to pass

Dame Prue Leith believes her son would have a “different attitude” towards assisted dying had he watched his uncle or father die – as...

Politics

Keir Starmer blames Tories for UK’s ‘open borders’ as stats show record high

Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Tories of using Brexit to deliberately run an “open borders experiment” in the UK. The prime minister said...

Politics

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigns after mobile phone guilty plea ‘mistake’

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has resigned. It comes after she admitted she pleaded guilty to an offence connected with incorrectly telling police that a...

Politics

Kemi Badenoch’s ‘first clanger’ will be what ‘defines her’, says Baroness Davidson

Kemi Badenoch will be “defined” by the first “clanger” she makes as Tory leader, Baroness Davidson has said. The Tory peer said Ms Badenoch,...

Sports

Steelers OC Smith contacted by alma mater UNC

Brooke Pryor, ESPN Staff WriterNov 28, 2024, 02:09 PM ET Close Previously covered the Kansas City Chiefs for the Kansas City Star and Oklahoma...

Sports

Ex-Alabama AD, Vols coach Battle dies at 82

Associated Press Nov 28, 2024, 05:00 PM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Bill Battle III, who was athletic director at his alma mater, Alabama, where...

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York disrupted by Gaza protest for second year running

The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York has been disrupted by protests over the conflict in Gaza for the second year running....

World

For Ukrainian families in Kyiv the threat of attack from the skies never goes away

There’s a veneer of normality to life in Ukraine’s major cities if you ignore the air raid sirens, the booming sounds of anti-aircraft fire,...

Why The Great British Bake Off’s Prue Leith wants assisted dying bill to pass

Dame Prue Leith believes her son would have a “different attitude” towards assisted dying had he watched his uncle or father die – as...

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh admits pleading guilty to offence in connection with misleading police in 2014

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted pleading guilty to an offence connected with misleading the police while a parliamentary candidate in 2014, Sky News...

Politics

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh admits pleading guilty to offence in connection with misleading police in 2014

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh has admitted pleading guilty to an offence connected with misleading the police while a parliamentary candidate in 2014, Sky News...

Bronson Battersby: ‘Likelihood’ boy, 2, would have survived if father had not died in flat, coroner says

There is a “likelihood” a two-year-old boy might still be alive if his father had not suffered a fatal heart attack over Christmas, a...

Politics

Keir Starmer blames Tories for UK’s ‘open borders’ as stats show record high

Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Tories of using Brexit to deliberately run an “open borders experiment” in the UK. The prime minister said...

Politics

Net migration to the UK falls by 20% – as previous year’s figure revised to almost a million

Net migration to the UK has fallen by 20% from a record 906,000 the year before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said....

Politics

Home Office spent record £5.38bn on asylum over past year

The Home Office spent a record £5.38bn over the last year on asylum – more than a third higher than the previous year. Figures...