Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers a pre-election budget focused on cost of living as Trump tariffs and global economic uncertainty loom largeFederal budget 2025 LIVE updates: Australia government budget announcement and speech – latest newsExplore all of…
South Korean carmaker plans to create 14,000 full-time jobs and expand links with US firms on tech including AIBusiness live – latest updatesSouth Korea’s Hyundai has said it will make a record $21bn (£16bn) investment in the US, as it attempts to prot…
Hyundai announces $21bn US investment as Trump tariffs loom Read Post »
In today’s newsletter: With elbows up on both sides, two very different political operators – Mark Carney and the Conservative party leader Pierre Poilievre – attempt to fend off threats from the southGood morning. When Justin Trudeau announced he woul…
In extraordinary blunder top Trump cabinet members added Atlantic editor to chat discussing strikes on HouthisOutrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’Senior members of Donald Trump’s cabinet have been involved …
White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist Read Post »
Messages inadvertently shared with Atlantic journalist lays bare the unvarnished truth about how Vance and Hegseth feel about European alliesIf Europe wasn’t already on notice, the extraordinary leak of deliberations by JD Vance and other top-level Tru…
Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe Read Post »
UK Health Security Agency’s tool highlights viruses and bacteria, many not yet seen in the country, that could pose biosecurity riskDeadly disease-causing organisms from pathogen families that include bird flu, plague and Ebola pose a threat to health …
UK experts urge prioritising research into 24 types of deadly pathogen families Read Post »
Iwao Hakamada, the world’s longest serving death row prisoner, had been wrongly convicted of a quadruple murderA Japanese man wrongly convicted of murder who was the world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been awarded $1.4m in compensation, an of…
Exonerated prisoner awarded $1.4m after 46 years spent on death row in Japan Read Post »
More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years agoOne of the biggest and most important iron age hoards ever found in the UK has been revealed, potentially altering our understanding of life in…
Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history Read Post »
With the cost of feeding a family up by an estimated £2,290, consumers, like many across Europe, are taking direct actionMarcel Demir was not impressed. The Swedish student had been monitoring the price of chocolate and crisps and had noticed that both…
Swedish shoppers boycott supermarkets over ‘runaway’ food prices Read Post »
Most feel financial secure but think UK’s economy is worsening, as chancellor plans welfare cuts in spring statementConsumers are cutting back spending on everyday items amid falling confidence in the UK economy before Rachel Reeves’s spring statement,…
Britons cutting back on spending as confidence in economy falls, survey shows Read Post »