The epicentre of the earthquake was in central Myanmar, 30 miles east of the city of Monywa. In the capital Naypyitaw, the ...

US vice president JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland in a trip that was scaled ...

The wildfires, which have killed 28 people and razed vast swaths of land in the southeast in the last week, have been 85 ...

Thai emergency services said two people have been found dead and an unknown number of others are still under the rubble of a building that collapsed after a massive earthquake hit the capital, Bangkok ...

Nigel Farage has denied wanting to make people pay to visit the doctor, but said Britain should “re-examine” how it funds the NHS. In an interview on the BBC’s Today programme, the Reform UK leader ...

A US judge in Washington state has blocked enforcement of president Donald Trump’s order banning transgender people from ...

Kristian White was sentenced to community service and placed under the supervision of a corrections officer for two years for manslaughter.

SSE has appointed a new chief executive after current boss Alistair Phillips-Davies announced his retirement last year. Martin Pibworth, who is currently the firm’s chief commercial officer, will take ...

A container ship which collided with a US tanker in the North Sea, leading to its captain being charged with gross negligence manslaughter, has arrived in Aberdeen. Portuguese vessel Solong was towed ...

Stores have also tussled with falling consumer confidence, which hit an 11-month low in February, according to a recent survey by the British Retail Consortium. But shoppers appear to have defied a ...

The sale does not include the retailer’s travel locations, such as shops in airports and train stations, nor the WH Smith brand.

This is unrevised from the ONS’s first estimate, confirming a picture of a sluggish economy over the second half of the year.