HSBC is reportedly reviewing a perk that covers school fees for bankers in Hong Kong as part of a big overhaul of the bank under chief executive Georges Elhedery. Europe’s largest bank is considering

A series of senior Labour figures have dismissed calls for a new investigation into what Keir Starmer told MPs about the appointment of Peter Mandelson as political point scoring, before a possible Co

'It's a symbol of our village' - Victorian bridge reinstalled after public fight The bridge, which has spanned the train tracks since the 19th century, was removed for repair work and placed in stora

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Two of Benjamin Netanyahu’s most formidable political rivals say they are joining forces in an attempt to oust the Israeli prime minister’s coalition government in the election expected later this yea

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"He believed in doing to others as you would have done to yourself. He believed in manners. He was a very loving, gentle person."

A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life after a fire at an LGBTQ+ nightclub, police have said. Officers have called on people not to speculate about why the fire ma

Prof Niamh Fitzgerald of the University of Stirling, and principal investigator of the wider study, said: "Our study shows that local authorities need greater powers to control the number and type of

Karl Standley and his assistant Cameron Hutcheon have gathered in their usual spot in the south-west corner of Wembley Stadium clutching hot cups of tea. Standley is a coffee devotee but on matchdays,

Michael Carrick is the calm Manchester United interim manager who moves ever closer to being appointed the seventh permanent leader of the post-Sir Alex Ferguson era. To coin the cliche: it is certifi

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1 Aaronson spurns golden opportunity One moment from their FA Cup semi-final to Chelsea will haunt Leeds. When Tosin Adarabioyo stretched for a through ball and couldn’t quite get there, quarter of a

Like millions of other people, I went to see Michael this week. I knew what I was getting into – most reviews have been brutal. It is a “whitewash”, “ghoulish”, a “127-minute trailer montage” of “crui

This is a common misconception, says Prof Leigh Breen, a muscle physiology specialist at the University of Leicester, though it’s easy to see where it comes from. Men typically have a higher ratio of

On a crisp bright early spring afternoon on a small uninhabited island in the Ångerman river in northern Sweden, the stars of The Great Moose Migration are proving suitably elusive. Just as they do, f

View image in fullscreen Friends Nika and Parisa look out over their Tehran neighbourhood. Parisa, right, does not know what the future will bring, but says she expects vengeance and another cycle of

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"And it's also because we're bringing in not just women, but brown women and all women. And the idea is to say that the football club is open to everybody, not just for those who come to watch footbal

Large parts of south-east Australia look set for drier and hotter conditions over the next three months as a potential El Niño weather phenomenon takes shape in the Pacific Ocean. Much of Queensland

"Obviously he liked to eat food, so he was laying on the grams... but the whole point about hedgehogs is that they need to be able to curl up in a ball to protect themselves.

The arrest is part of an ongoing counter terrorism investigation into a series of attacks on premises linked to the Jewish community in north west London, an attack on a Persian-language media organis

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Nationwide building society could have a customer on its board for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century after one of its longtime members secured enough support for a spot on the lender’s a

As an Australian living in Italy, I grew up within an hour of some of the most pristine coastline in the world, so the Italian penchant for private beach clubs is something I’ll never quite grow accus

We were organising our wedding for this June when the happiest period of our lives became a nightmare. Our two-year-old daughter was diagnosed with an aggressive grade 4 brain tumour requiring immedi

The Mother Road, as the author John Steinbeck called it, has evolved over the years from an escape for poor farmers fleeing the devastating dust storms of the 1930s to perhaps the quintessential Ameri

Dundee United manager Jim Goodwin expects summer transfer interest in left-back Will Ferry, 25. (Courier - subscription required), external Everton have set their sights on 31-year-old Aston Villa an