The Fed’s 19-member interest rate setting committee, led by the chairman, decides whether to cut or raise borrowing costs. They typically increase rates to cool the economy to fight or prevent ...

Two women are challenging the Care Quality Commission’s decision to register the Gender Plus Hormone Clinic in Birmingham.

Michelle Thomson MSP challenged permanent secretary Joe Griffin on the issue at Holyrood’s Finance and Public Administration Committee.

Here is a full list of the projected change in population for local areas in England between mid-2022 and mid-2032. The projections have been published by the Office for National Statistics. The list ...

Russian drones, missiles and artillery have killed at least 18 civilians and injured more than 100 others in Ukraine, officials said. The attacks came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sought ...

It comes after Lucy Connolly, the wife of Conservative councillor Ray Connolly, was jailed last year for 31 months for inciting racial hatred.

The grocer will not use ingredients in Co-op branded products or sell whole products from 17 countries of concern, it said.

Pat McFadden warned of the challenge from ‘major powers like China’, and threats of new technologies as he set out the national ...

The Prime Minister on Tuesday said the Government must take “hard, honest choices” in a defiant message after some 108 MPs from within his party signed a Commons bid to stop the changes in their ...

Hundreds of firefighters backed up by aircraft are battling a wildfire burning out of control for a third day on the eastern Aegean island of Chios, with authorities issuing multiple evacuation orders ...

A fashion shop owner who lost thousands of pounds in a luxury handbag scam lured her fraudster to a pub car park to have him arrested. Christine Colbert, 58, owner of Dress Cheshire in Prestbury, met ...

Chinese spying, interference in the UK’s democracy and attempts to undermine the economy have increased in recent years, the UK Government said. Ministers promised “greater robustness and consistency” ...