Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he held telephone talks with US President Donald Trump and agreed to hold “productive” discussions at an upcoming tariff talks between the two sides.

Retail sales volumes were up 1.2% in April 2025, following a rise of 0.1% in March 2025 (revised down from 0.4%). April’s retail sales growth surpassed expectations, with analysts having predicted a 0 ...

Household energy bills will fall by 7% from July, Ofgem has confirmed. The typical bill will drop by £129 to £1,720 per year when the regulator’s new price cap – which sets the limit on how much firms ...

Energy bills will fall by xxx, as Ofgem announced a decrease to the energy price cap, but prices are still 65 per cent higher than five years ago ...

Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “emboldening Hamas”, after the British Prime Minister joined the leaders of France and Canada in calling for a halt to Israel’s military offensive ...

Some 50,000 people have been isolated by flooding along the coast of New South Wales state, north of Sydney, after days of heavy rain.

North Korea said it began steps to investigate and arrest those responsible for the failed launch of its second naval destroyer after leader Kim Jong Un expressed fury over the incident that he said ...

Keighley Cougars have brought Andy Gabriel back to the club on a deal until the end of the 2025 season. The winger was a prolific try-scorer during his previous three-year spell at Cougar Park, but he ...

Following a superb start to the season, Yorkshire all-rounder George Hill, who is from Keighley, has been called up to the England Lions for ...

The Work and Pensions Secretary was speaking at the launch in Liverpool of a programme to get young people into education, work and training.

Rap trio Kneecap are set to headline a festival on Friday, just two days after one of their members was charged with a terror offence.

Labour should “shift from defence to offence, from reactive to proactive, from apology to confidence”, and show itself to be “a disruptor, not defender, of the status quo” in order to combat its ...