65 minutes ago ECB’s Lagarde: ‘We’re breaking the neck of inflation’ after cutting interest rates – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsNewsflash: Inflation across the eurozone fell by more than initially thought last month, which may cement the chances of interest rate cuts today.Consumer prices across the euro area rose by 1.7% in the year to September, statistics body Eurostat reports, down from 2.2% in August.The lowest annual rates were registered in Ireland (0.0%), Lithuania (0.4%), Slovenia and Italy (both 0.7%). The highest annual rates were recorded in Romania (4.8%), Belgium (4.3%) and Poland (4.2%).Compared with August 2024, annual inflation fell in twenty Member States, remained stable in two and rose in five.“We have always said we won’t be taking plans for HS2 phase 2 back off the shelf after the Conservatives took a wrecking ball to the project and...

Economics

67 minutes ago Businessman Sir Tom Hunter paid to return Alex Salmond’s body to Scotland

The entrepreneur said he ‘deserved the dignity and privacy of a private return to the home of his birth’.

Politics

72 minutes ago Ukraine's former armed forces chief endorses 'victory plan' in first speech since his dismissal

Ukraine’s former commander-in-chief, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, has expressed his support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s “victory plan,” despite the tensions between the two that led to his dismissal in February

Events

79 minutes ago Government aims to increase productivity and ease NHS strain with ‘radical’ weight loss injection plans

The plans to use give unemployed overweight people Mounjaro were introduced by Wes Streeting earlier this week.

Politics

2 hours ago People around Vladimir Putin 'concerned' at Ukraine war cost but no sign he wants peace, say western officials

The Russian president is not believed to have changed his war aims since he ordered his troops into Ukraine in February 2022

Politics

2 hours ago 'My fiancé's mum told me I'm not pure enough to wear white to my own wedding'

A woman has been slammed her mother-in-law for saying she shouldn't wear a white wedding dress to her big day because she has had three children out of wedlock

Events

2 hours ago Liam Payne and Cheryl faced daunting parenting decision after birth of son Bear

One Direction star Liam Payne has tragically passed away aged 31 - the singer shared his son, Bear, with ex-girlfriend Cheryl, who gave birth to him back in 2017

Politics

2 hours ago ECB holds press conference after cutting eurozone interest rates – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsNewsflash: Inflation across the eurozone fell by more than initially thought last month, which may cement the chances of interest rate cuts today.Consumer prices across the euro area rose by 1.7% in the year to September, statistics body Eurostat reports, down from 2.2% in August.The lowest annual rates were registered in Ireland (0.0%), Lithuania (0.4%), Slovenia and Italy (both 0.7%). The highest annual rates were recorded in Romania (4.8%), Belgium (4.3%) and Poland (4.2%).Compared with August 2024, annual inflation fell in twenty Member States, remained stable in two and rose in five.“We have always said we won’t be taking plans for HS2 phase 2 back off the shelf after the Conservatives took a wrecking ball to the project and...

Politics

2 hours ago How we met: ‘We got chatting on the plane – and she suggested I move in with her’

Kate, 49, and Abby, 52, struck up a conversation on a flight from New York to London in the 90s. They have been close friends ever sinceAs a friendly student who loved to travel, striking up a conversation on a flight wasn’t unusual for Kate. But when she boarded a plane headed from New York to London in January 1996, she had no idea she would be making a friend for life. “I’d spent the previous summer interning for Rolling Stone magazine and a publishing company in New York, and I was returning for New Year to visit pals,” she says. “I was then going back to university in London.”She introduced herself to Abby, in the neighbouring seat. “I’d studied in Bristol during my junior year in college and fallen in love with a British boy,” says Abby. “After completing my studies in the States ...

Politics

2 hours ago Vladimir Putin admits constant hospitalisations as Kremlin rushes to deny ill health

Officials were quick to quash potential speculation that developed in the wake of a recent television appearance by Putin, who has been dogged by rumours of ill health since 2022

Science