70 m. ago Asian stocks slid after Wall Street surrendered to a hit by Trump's tariffs

Asian markets are retreating after Wall Street led the biggest loss among world's markets over worries about U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs

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2 h. ago Trump live: Markets see worst day since Covid after new tariffs as president teases $5m gold card featuring his face

President Trump imposes blanket tariffs on all countries, hitting China and Europe hardest

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2 h. ago Asian markets drop further as IMF warns Trump tariffs ‘a significant risk’ to global economy – business live

Kristolina Georgieva warns against retaliation to US levies while US president insists ‘markets will boom’ after sweeping tariff announcementFull report: Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2.5tn off Wall StreetAnalysis: Trump’s ‘idiotic’ and flawed tariff calculations stun economistsSenior senators introduced new bipartisan legislation on Thursday seeking to claw back some of Congress’s power over tariffs after Donald Trump unveiled sweeping new import taxes and rattled the global economy with sweeping new import taxes.The Trade Review Act of 2025, co-sponsored by Senator Chuck Grassley, a top Republican lawmaker from Iowa, a state heavily reliant on farm exports, and Senator Maria Cantwell, a Democrat from Washington, whose state shares a border with Canada, would require the president to notify Congress of new tariffs, and provide a justification for the action and an analysis on the potential impact on US businesses and consumers. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Trump tariffs live: President teases $5m gold card for US entry which features his own face on day that stocks plunge globally

President Trump imposes blanket tariffs on all countries, hitting China and Europe hardest

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4 h. ago BBC Reunion: Airdate, cast list, plot and everything you need to know about the ground

BBC's new crime drama is a bilingual first as it showcases both English and British Sign Language

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6 h. ago Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer review – this startling tale urgently needed telling

Dispatches, presented by Cathy Newman, talks to 16 survivors or witnesses of the ex-Harrods boss’s abuse, as well as tracking down his alleged enabler. The result is a raw, horrifying and invaluable watchIt is disturbingly easy to respond with little more than fatigue to reports of powerful men sexually exploiting women, because there have been so many. The part of us that should emit shock, disgust and righteous outrage becomes dulled through overuse. And so, when Mohamed Al Fayed, the billionaire former owner of Harrods, died in 2023 and was then credibly accused of being one of Britain’s worst sex offenders, the collective reaction felt like a shrug.The new Dispatches investigation, Delivered to a Predator: Al Fayed’s Fixer, however, ought to sharpen our revulsion and our resolve to fight for change. Building on the 2017 Dispatches documentary Behind Closed Doors and the 2024 BBC programme Predator at Harrods, it outlines the scale of the tycoon’s wrongdoing: last year, the Metro...

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7 h. ago Coronation Street's Theo's true identity 'exposed' after Todd romance twist

Theo recently arrived on the Coronation Street cobbles as a good looking scaffolder - but is all as it seems with Theo or is he hiding something from Todd?

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8 h. ago Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2.5tn off Wall Street

Economists say levies of between 10% and 50% have dramatically added to the risk of a worldwide downturnGlobal financial markets have been plunged into turmoil as Donald Trump’s escalating trade war knocked trillions of dollars off the value of the world’s biggest companies and heightened fears of a US recession.As world leaders reacted to the US president’s “liberation day” tariff policies demolishing the international trading order, about $2.5tn (£1.9tn) was wiped off Wall Street and share prices in other financial centres across the globe. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Trump gives stunning response to Wall Street bloodbath as his tariffs cause biggest stock drop since Covid crash

Wall Street was shell shocked Thursday after the biggest stock market rout since Covid/ Trump's tariffs sparked fears of a US and global recession.

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8 h. ago Apple loses more than $300bn in market value from Trump tariff hit

iPhone maker one of Wall Street’s biggest casualties despite Tim Cook’s efforts to court US president

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8 h. ago US stock market plunges as Trump tariffs wipe £1.5 trillion off Wall Street

Trump slapped a 10% tariff on most US imports and much higher levies on dozens of other countries

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8 h. ago ITV Coronation Street's Tony Maudsley 'flaunts' cheeky kissing snap with co

Coronation Street star Tony Maudsley, who is currently playing George Shuttleworth in the ITV soap, has responded to a cheeky kissing snap involving his co-stars

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8 h. ago Westminster Labour councillor defects to Tories blaming 'Sadiq Khan vanity projects' and London crime rates

Paul Fisher, who was elected a Labour councillor in the West End in 2022, said: ‘Sadiq Khan has failed London’

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9 h. ago Trump gives stunning response to Wall Street bloodbath caused by his tariffs

Stock markets plunged Thursday after President Donald Trump's historic tariff announcement, sparking fears of a US  and global recession. 

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9 h. ago Trump live updates: President says tariffs rollout ‘going very well’ despite plunging stock market

President Trump says he will impose blanket tariffs on all countries, hitting China and Europe hardest

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9 h. ago Two air ambulances land and man airlifted to hospital after 'fall'

Emergency services descended on a street in Oldham

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10 h. ago Stephanie Davis rushes baby son Samuel, 2 months, to hospital after he 'stopped breathing' as she details the 'scariest time of  my life'

The Coronation Street star, 32, described the ordeal as 'the scariest time of my life' as she told her social media followers what happened.

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10 h. ago Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2tn off Wall Street

Economists say levies of 10-50% have dramatically added to the risk of a worldwide downturnGlobal financial markets have been plunged into turmoil as Donald Trump’s escalating trade war knocked trillions of dollars off the value of the world’s biggest companies and heightened fears of a US recession.As world leaders reacted to the US president’s “liberation day” tariff policies demolishing the international trading order, about $2tn (£1.5tn) was wiped off Wall Street and share prices in other financial centres across the globe. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago Coronation Street fans 'work out' new owners of the Rovers Return in 'amazing' twist

The iconic boozer in the ITV soap has recently had a question mark put over its future

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10 h. ago ASK COLEEN 'I'm worried date will be put off when he sees I'm nothing like profile pic'

Resident agony aunt Coleen Nolan has advice for an anxious reader who's worried her old online profile picture may leave her potential new flame feeling short-changed

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