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The UK government will publish an immigration white paper later this year including proposals to introduce visas aimed at high-skilled workers as part of its push to kickstart growth, Rachel Reeves has announced.

The chancellor told a breakfast event at the World Economic Forum in Davos: “We are going to …

MrBeast, the YouTube star and highest-earning creator on the internet, has officially joined a bid to buy TikTok’s US operations.

The 26-year-old has teamed up with tech entrepreneur Jesse Tinsley, the founder of the online HR company employer.com, to make an all-cash offer for the social video app’s American unit. …

Early days, but we already have an irresistible contender for the most underwhelming English sporting effort of 2025. After four defeats in nine days, and just 303 overs of competitive cricket, England’s attempt to win back the Ashes

is over already

The cost of UK government borrowing unexpectedly jumped to £17.8bn last month, piling pressure on Rachel Reeves to plan budget cuts before a spending review in the summer.

The figure was about a quarter higher than the City had forecast and was up by £10.1bn more than in the same …

Good morning. After the horrifying murders of three young girls in Southport last summer, an obvious question presented itself: was there anything we knew about the attacker that might shed light on how this could have happened? After a summer of far-right riots and then a long wait for the …

In the dim light of his home in Arakan, Myanmar, Mohammed is talking above the wailing of his youngest child. All three of his children are hungry, he says. The 32-year-old Rohingya man’s parents, leaning together against the wall, are just visible as Mohammed speaks on the video call.

He …

Lloyd’s Register, the maritime and industrial group owned by one of Britain’s biggest charities, has apologised for its role in the trafficking of enslaved African people but has been criticised for not going far enough.

Founded in 1760 as the Society for the Registry of Shipping by merchants and underwriters …

Parliament’s spending watchdog has accused HM Revenue & Customs of deliberately running down its phone services to force people to go online after finding the average call waiting time has passed 23 minutes – almost double the figure of two years earlier.

With people across the country working to finish …

What is going on underneath the Pacific Ocean? Scientists have discovered huge chunks of rock that look like the remains of submerged plates in the deep mantle underneath the western Pacific Ocean. Is there a lost world down there?

Researchers used all the different types of earthquake waves to build …

The influence of the super rich on Donald Trump’s presidency is a threat to global stability, a new poll of millionaires has found.

A survey of more than 2,000 millionaires across G20 countries published by the Patriotic Millionaires group has found more than half believe extreme wealth concentration is a …