(Alliance News) - The UK economy registered a surprise decline at the start of the year, numbers on Friday showed, with minor growth in the service sector more than offset by decline elsewhere. The ...

(Alliance News) - The UK foreign secretary has said it would be "wrong" for Vladimir Putin to place conditions on a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. David Lammy said a pause in fighting would be ...

In China, the Shanghai Composite was up 1.7%, while the Hang Seng Index jumped 2.4%. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 added 0.8%. In Sydney, the S&P/ASX 200 added 0.5%.

The trust saw its discount narrow to 46.2% from 63.6%, as its share price improved to 54.4p from 34.4p. Its shares closed up 4.2% at 55.00p on Thursday in London.

Already the UK Export Finance agency has a lending capacity of GBP8 billion specifically for government clients of defence contractors, bringing the new total to GBP10 billion.

(Alliance News) - Vladimir Putin has said he agrees in principle to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine as Downing Street warned that if the war continued sanctions would "cripple" the Russian economy.

(Alliance News) - Thames Water must wait to discover whether the approval of a plan to restructure the struggling utility will be overturned at the Court of Appeal.

(Alliance News) - Eric Trump, son of the US president, met with Scotland's First Minister John Sweeney Thursday, with talks focused on Donald Trump's golf ventures in the country.

(Alliance News) - Staff who work on patrol boats in the English Channel have voted for strike action in a dispute over allowances. The Public & Commercial Services union, PCS, said more than 100 of ...

(Alliance News) - Two vessels involved in a North Sea collision that triggered a huge explosion "appear to be relatively stable" and the environmental impact "mercifully small", a transport minister ...

The FTSE 100 index closed up just 1.59 points at 8,542.56. The FTSE 250 dropped 197.94 points, 1.0%, at 19,688.57, and the AIM All-Share fell 1.46 points, 0.2%, at 679.46. The Cboe UK 100 rose 0.1% at ...

The UK prime minister said without a lasting peace agreement, the Russian president would continue to cause economic and political instability. Talks between the US and Russia are expected in Moscow ...