The university admissions service, Ucas, said there was a 7.2 per cent rise in the number of UK 18-year-olds accepted on places at high-ranking universities for courses starting this autumn.

The UK economy expanded 0.3 per cent in the second quarter, surpassing expectations, but underlining the challenge facing chancellor Rachel Reeves as she attempts to boost growth and repair the public ...

It has not been an especially calm spring and summer for the economy: growth expectations have fallen, inflation has edged up, tariff policy has vacillated, and the president has lobbed rhetorical ...

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US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has said that Japan’s central bank is falling “behind the curve” on inflation and will ...

Gideon Rachman That was the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking at a joint rally with Donald Trump at a huge stadium in Texas in 2019. The whole euphoric event was so over the top that it ...

This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Opec pops US shale’s balloon’ Marc Filippino Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Thursday, ...

The remote Pacific nation of the Marshall Islands will make sporting history on Thursday evening when it plays its first ...

In 2023, Japan announced that it would, over five years, raise the defence budget to about 2 per cent of GDP. This change, ...

The Trump administration has hit India with 50% tariffs. And just after a short military conflict between India and Pakistan, ...

AI models from OpenAI, Meta, xAI and Alibaba can make people change their political views after less than 10 minutes of ...

Fears of a massive non-dom exodus from the UK have been allayed by initial tax data, and UK companies in China are being ...