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Labour’s changes to electric vehicle (EV) rules in response to Donald Trump’s tariffs will have a negligible impact on emissions, the transport secretary has said. Keir Starmer has confirmed plans to boost manufacturers, including reinstating the 2030 ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars. But regulations around manufacturing targets on electric cars … Read more

Keir Starmer has announced sweeping measures to support the car and pharmaceutical industries, as he said Britain faced a “changing and completely new world” after Donald Trump’s tariffs. The prime minister warned of an “age of insecurity” as stock markets tumbled for a third day after the US president announced blanket import taxes on countries … Read more

The UK has lost an attempt to keep details of a legal battle with Apple away from the public. The investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates whether the domestic intelligence services have acted unlawfully, on Monday rejected a bid by the Home Office to withhold from the public the “bare details” of the case. A judgment … Read more

Police in the Brazilian state of São Paulo have uncovered that a judge spent 23 years working under a false identity – and a distinctly British one. Born José Eduardo Franco dos Reis – a name fairly typical in a country once colonised by Portugal – he entered law school and served for over two … Read more

A senior manager at the Hinkley nuclear power plant accepted bribes such as an £11,000 quad bike to funnel extra work to a British engineering firm, an employment tribunal has heard. Ashley Daniels was investigated by Hinkley’s owner, EDF, after he was given gifts such as £2,000 hospitality tickets for a boxing match and a … Read more

The Republican US senator and Donald Trump loyalist Markwayne Mullin has evidently sought to backtrack from comments suggesting politicians could “handle our differences” with journalists by shooting and killing them, insisting he was trying to make a joke. The Oklahoma lawmaker, a former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, on Saturday posted to X a video … Read more

Thousands of heart attacks and strokes could be prevented with the aid of a simple £5 blood test, research suggests. Checking levels of troponin in patients could enable doctors to predict their risk of cardiovascular events with much greater accuracy, according to a study funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and published in the … Read more

Stock markets continued to fall sharply around the world on Monday as Donald Trump defied stark warnings that his global trade assault will wreak widespread economic damage, comparing new US tariffs to medicine. On Wall Street, the benchmark S&P 500 dropped a further 3.5% – entering bear market territory after falling more than 20% from … Read more

An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp within a hospital complex in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis killed 10 people, including a journalist, while seriously injuring dozens more after their encampment caught fire. Images and video from the courtyard of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis showed people desperately attempting to extinguish the fires … Read more

Europe’s first research station for the study of Atlantic temperate rainforest is set to be built beside an ancient wood in Cornwall. The Thousand Year Trust charity is crowdfunding an initial amount to build the £750,000 facility, which will enable students and academics to study this historically overlooked but biodiverse natural habitat. The research station, … Read more