He said he was ‘honoured’ and ‘humbled’ to be taking the job and had had a ‘really strong coffee’ and taken a ‘deep breath’ ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) updated its growth projections a month after warning of a sharp slowdown caused by the global energy shock.

Spider-man and Michael Jackson came to the Premier League as goal celebrations made as many headlines as the goals over the weekend. Sunderland’s Enzo Le Fee donned a Spider-man mask after scoring for ...

The Manchester United captain has matched Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne’s mark of 20 goals created in a season.

"Feels a bit like we're the Year 7s and the returning councillors are the Year 11s sat at the back," whispered another newly ...

Rescuers have located the bodies of four Italian divers believed to be deep inside an underwater cave in a Maldive atoll, Italy’s foreign ministry has said. The searches had resumed on Monday after ...

A Spanish court has acquitted Colombian singer Shakira in a tax fraud case, ordering the government to return more than 55 million euros (£48 million) in wrongly imposed fines, a court document said.

Gethin will sport the silks of Wathnan Racing for the first time in the Star Sports Brigadier Gerard Stakes later this month, but an outing at Royal Ascot appears unlikely for the leading owners’ new ...

Jakub Jan Konkel, 40, was sentenced to 13-and-a-half years for concealing 90kg of the drug, worth £7m, alongside a legitimate load of ...

The Treasury has set out plans to relax financial crisis-era ring-fencing rules on banks in a bid to help increase lending and investment. The reforms are designed to create a “more agile and ...

The inquest found that British Army soldiers ‘did not use reasonable force’ in the shooting of five people in west Belfast in 1972.

Scotland’s First Minister would not commit to criminalising pitch invasions at football games following “astonishingly poor behaviour” by Celtic fans on Saturday. Fans stormed the pitch before the ...