Oil prices have fallen and stock markets are clawing back some lost ground after Donald Trump raised hopes that Iran war disruption to the global economy would soon be over.

Words are cheap, but the price of oil is brutally honest.

Scotland's busiest railway station will remain closed for a third day today after a devastating fire at a nearby vape shop.

MPs have voted against a proposal to ban under-16s from using social media.

The government has announced a new definition of anti-Muslim hate that includes violence, harassment and prejudicial stereotyping - as it insisted the move will not curtail free speech.

Earth experienced its fifth-warmest February on record last month - with temperatures at 1.49C above pre-industrial levels, scientists have said.

More than 3,200 lawyers have written to the prime minister urging him to "rethink" plans to restrict jury trials for all but the most serious cases.

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Taxpayers could pay towards the costs of Ian Huntley's cremation or funeral, unless his family makes alternative arrangements.

Gerry Adams was "directly responsible for and complicit" in the decisions made by the Provisional IRA to detonate bombs on the British mainland, the High Court has heard.