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Israel has launched heavy airstrikes on Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon, after it issued an evacuation warning for the city and its outskirts. 

Campaigners have hailed a "momentous day" as the government announced an independent review into a controversial tax policy that has been linked to 10 suicides. 

Britain's four biggest supermarkets could see their collective tax bill rise by close to £500m after Rachel Reeves augmented her raid on employers' national insurance contributions (NICs) with bigger-than-expected changes…

Rachel Reeves was accused of "broken promise after broken promise" by Rishi Sunak after delivering Labour's first budget since 2010. 

A new, more infectious strain of mpox has been detected in the UK for the first time. 

Fuel duty will remain frozen for another year as increasing the tax "would be the wrong choice for working people," the chancellor has said. 

A British woman who had to climb out of her car window before it was swept away along with the rest of her belongings in Spain's floods says she is…

More tax, more borrowing, more spending. This was a big budget by every measure, but will loom largest for businesses that will bear the brunt of the revenue raising. 

Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have been announced as the new co-owners of a beer company in their latest business move. 

A case of a new strain of mpox has been detected in the UK for the first time, it has been announced.