The average house price jumped by 0.4% or more than £1,000 in cash terms in July, Halifax has reported. Across the UK, the average property value in July was £298,237, up from £297,157 in June.

Mr Trump has promoted the tariffs as a way to reduce the persistent trade deficit. But importers sought to avoid the taxes by importing more goods before the taxes went into effect. As a result, the ...

An emergency alert drill in a month’s time “will be one of the biggest public safety exercises” in UK history, a Cabinet minister has said. Pat McFadden said mobile phone alerts could save lives ...

About 2,000 firefighters are fighting the blaze, which broke out in a village in the Aude region, a rural, wooded area that ...

At least 28 Palestinians were killed overnight and into Wednesday in the Morag Corridor, an Israeli military zone in southern ...

Mr Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the Russian president and Mr Witkoff had a “useful and constructive ...

US President Donald Trump could meet in person with Russian President Vladimir Putin as soon as next week as he seeks to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, a White House official said.

A set of 10 stamps from Royal Mail will pay tribute to “one of Britain’s most influential and enduring comedy troupes” – Monty Python. The main collection of six stamps celebrates characters from ...

The band, who play Murrayfield this weekend, performed at the Edinburgh stadium in 2009 and proved to be a real ‘shakermaker’.

The paper said: “Around one in four councils would see real-terms falls in overall funding under the Government’s proposals, with around 30 on the lowest funding floors seeing real-terms cuts of 11–12 ...

Universities have been warning of financial pressures due to uncertainty about the recruitment of overseas students.