Foreign secretary David Lammy has swung his support behind Lord Peter Mandelson to become the next UK ambassador to the US, ...

Some UK supermarkets are grappling with a shortage of taramasalata after strikes disrupted production at a large supplier.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said the TV dramatisation of the Post Office Horizon scandal brought “urgency” to ...

With last Tuesday’s election in the US, President Joe Biden officially became a lame-duck, even though he still has a little ...

President Joe Biden’s top climate adviser conceded action to limit global warming “may be put on the back burner” after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, but sought to reassure the world that ...

Japan’s drivers have been wary of making the switch to electric vehicles. Its EV market share is about a 10th of China’s, and ...

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is under growing pressure to resign over his role in the Church of England’s failure to halt the “prolific” sexual and physical attacks carried out by a child ...

Bestselling French comic book argues we should forget renewables — our only option to address global warming lies in ...

India’s Arjun Erigaisi is currently the fastest rising star in world chess. The 21-year-old has even tacitly signalled a ...

The author and shepherd is closely associated with England’s Lake District but in recent years has lost his heart to the remote Vega archipelago ...

Hang Seng index down 1.5% after Beijing unveils $1.4tn plan to restructure local government debt but no consumer support ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Direct Line is cutting about 550 ...