Javokhir Sindarov is already the clear favourite to win the 2026 Candidates in Cyprus and to challenge India’s Gukesh Dommaraju for the world crown after the Uzbek grandmaster, 20, began the ...

Sales of used electric vehicles are surging in the US as models bought during a post-pandemic boom flood back on to the ...

Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, has raised the premium it charges for its crude to record levels as the Iran ...

Last week, Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer both gave big speeches to the nation. Trump’s effort reminded me of Macbeth’s ...

The Iran war has brutally exposed Britain’s lack of military readiness and shortage of defence assets, with its navy unable to immediately deploy an advanced warship even after a UK air base on Cyprus ...

For the past month, the prevailing view in liberal circles has been that Donald Trump’s war in Iran has irreparably fractured ...

Excessive spending to cushion soaring prices would have ‘serious fiscal implications’, says economy commissioner ...

A growing number of hospitality venues are discouraging or even banning phones for the sake of customers. The French House in London’s Soho has long maintained a policy of no ph ...

Chief secretary to prime minister is less central to Starmer’s Number 10 operation after arrival of new head of civil service ...

Lord King was talking about central bankers’ ability to move markets with words, changing the restrictiveness of policy while allowing central bankers to glide along doing nothing. It was, he said, ...

In this valley oasis, Marina O’Loughlin finds the food superb, the bedtimes early and the locals determined to keep it that way ...