Changes in the FTSE 100 and other indexes are not just for financial experts, they can affect our lives.

Asian markets from Tokyo to Sydney plunged amid increasing fears of a global economic downturn.

Temperatures of above 20C (68F) are set to return to the UK at the end of this week, according to forecasts.

ONS acknowledges it might be a costly decision in the long run

The UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) is slowing migration away from legacy systems in response to budget limitations set by HM Treasury.…

Of course this is dramatic. Of course markets are slumping.

Lighter winds mean that most places will feel warmer than they did last week.

England spinner Sophie Ecclestone says she has "moved on" and "learned from" her refusal to do an interview with Alex Hartley during the Women's Ashes.

At least 19 people are reported to have died after severe weather, including tornadoes, heavy rain, and flooding, continued to hit parts of the US over the weekend.

A headteacher has been told he faces a jail sentence after admitting to attacking his deputy at a school in South Wales.

The F1 legend reveals the poignant reason why his charity is funding a new dementia blood test.

Former British and Irish Lions and Wales fly-half Dan Biggar has announced he will retire from rugby at the end of the season.

The UK government is facing accusations of being "disingenuous" and "irresponsible" amid growing criticism for not introducing tougher licensing laws for new drivers.

The graybeard wasn't doing a great job and morale improved once he left. How would you handle this?

Who, Me?  It's hard to confront the start of a working week, but each Monday morning, The Register tries to keep the weekend fun going for another few minutes by delivering a fresh edition of Who, Me? It's the column in which we take your tales of your most ticklish moments at work and share them for the amusement and/or education of your fellow readers.…

A wildfire that has been blazing over the weekend has been brought under control - as emergency crews remain at the scene to extinguish any potential flare-ups.

Josh Ward-Hibbert was a Grand Slam tennis winner as a junior and is now chasing European basketball glory with Newcastle Eagles.

Overnight storms in Georgia delay Monday's practice round at Augusta National at the start of Masters week.

I spoke to Dustin du Cane of the Fallout triumvirate

Plan to standardize consent dialogs aims to lighten burden on devs, users, reviewers

Mozilla plans to make life easier for developers of Firefox browser Add-ons, aka extensions, by reducing the burden of presenting custom consent dialogs to those installing extensions.…

Workers are right to fear for their pensions, but the greater worry is the here and now - the economy they live in.

India's weather department has issued a yellow alert for parts for northern India until Wednesday.

Says they’re done right as they don’t lean so far left

Meta has debuted the first two models in its Llama 4 family, its first to use mixture of experts tech.…

Thousands flocked to see artwork from the BBC show Extraordinary Portraits.

England’s nurseries report average of 75 "significant events" to regulator Ofsted each week, BBC finds.

A second child in Texas with measles has died as the outbreak of the childhood disease reached nearly 500 cases in the state, officials have said.

A group of islands, occupied only by penguins and seals, has been swept up in Trump's trade war.

How did a teenaged receptionist working at a Stockport recording studio earn a place in pop history?

The homage to the famous bear in Newbury has been repaired and repainted.

The East Ayrshire town is embracing its most famous son with a new mural welcoming visitors.

Business owners have told the BBC their businesses collapsed, blaming the bank's treatment.

Fixed it the next day but a few lucky folk may have dodged a five percent Copilot price hike

Exclusive  Microsoft published inaccurate price lists for some of its products on, of all days, April the 1st.…

Dionne Marie Hanna, 84, was charged with fraud after the release of the Netflix documentary.

Sir Keir Starmer's bid to shelter the car industry from US tariffs is among stories leading the papers.

Just hours after Trump's comments, stock markets plunged in Asia early on Monday, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng losing 9.8%.

PLUS: Qualcomm acquires Vietnamese AI outfit; China claims US hacked winter games; India's browser challenge winner disputed; and more

Asia In Brief  Asian nations and tech companies are trying to come to terms with the USA’s new universal import tariffs and additional “reciprocal tariffs”.…

Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 30 people in Gaza, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials have said.

Peter Dutton's Liberal-National coalition had said the move would improve efficiency in the public sector.

The race in Pyongyang to mark the birthday of Kim Il Sung was held every year until the pandemic hit.

Here's what we learnt on UK theatre's most prestigious night.

The scathing opinion comes as a deadline looms to return the man from a prison in El Salvador.

International stock markets have fallen dramatically overnight amid fears of a global trade war following Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, which he called "medicine".

Scotland take gold at the men's World Curling Championship after a dramatic 5-4 victory over Switzerland in Moose Jaw, Canada.

PLUS: Google re-patches Quick Share flaws; Critical Cisco flaw exploited; WordPress plugin trouble; and more

Infosec in Brief  How did journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s phone number end up in a Signal group chat? According to The Guardian, US national security adviser Mike Waltz accidentally saved it into the contact file of a campaign staffer who later took a job at the US National Security Council official.…

The Liverpool actor on the new BBC drama that conflicts a life of crime with love and vulnerability.

Fittingly, last week Black Gate photog Chris Z and I attended the Days of the Dead convention in Chicago for our thirteenth year. This is one of our favorite shows as the hotel venue is more intimate and less daunting than some of the mega-conventions, and the celebrities aren’t sequestered behind curtains unless guests pay.

The state pension has risen by 4.1% and carers can work more hours will keeping a key benefit.

Health bosses are accused of keeping resident doctors in the dark about their first position.

The mother of a man shot dead in a Tube station by police who mistook him for a terror suspect says she will continue the fight.

As the Duchess of Sussex builds her lifestyle empire, experts examine her popularity rating - and where she goes from here.

Match of the Day 2 pundit Troy Deeney explains why Manchester United's Alejandro Garnacho was the only "shining light" in the goalless Manchester derby.

The King and Queen will fly into Rome later for their state visit to Italy, despite the recent concerns about his health.

The King and Queen have begun a three-day state visit to Italy, where they will celebrate the Catholic jubilee year, an event that only happens every 25 years. 

Until five weeks ago, Arturo Suarez was a professional singer, performing in the United States as he waited for his asylum claim to be processed.

From today, drivers using London's Blackwall Tunnel will have to pay a toll.

A teenager suddenly becomes violent, his anger towards women fuelled by online influencers, while his parents struggle to process what their son is capable of.

John Higgins comes from 8-5 behind to beat Mark Selby 10-8 in a gripping Tour Championship final in Manchester.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to hold a “hackathon” next week in order to create a “mega API” for accessing Internal Revenue Service data, reports Wired. The outlet says the API would be used to move the data into a cloud platform — potentially a third-party one — to serve as […]

Marc Leishman wins his first LIV Golf individual title as he beats Charl Schwartzel by one stroke in Miami - and sees off a host of other players warming up for the Masters.

World number four Jessica Pegula mounts a huge comeback to beat Sofia Kenin 6-3 7-5 and land her first clay court title at the Charleston Open.

Stephen Bunting beats fellow Englishman Nathan Aspinall 8-5 to win the International Open in Germany - his first European Tour title.

Sir Keir Starmer promised "bold changes" as he announced he will relax rules around electric vehicles after carmakers were hit by Donald Trump's tariffs.

Fiddler On The Roof, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button and Giant were among the other big winners.

After Man City and Man Utd played out a dull goalless Premier League draw, BBC Sport looks at what is ahead of both clubs.

The fire service has deployed helicopters as part of efforts to extinguish the flames, while police have urged people to avoid the area.

The BBC understands the PM is considering several options to mitigate the impact of US tariffs on the UK.

British star Lesley Manville and American actor John Lithgow have won the acting categories at this year's Olivier Awards, which recognise excellence in London theatre.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says derogatory chants about Phil Foden's mother from Manchester United fans showed "a lack of class".

The start of Sale's Champions Cup tie against Toulouse was delayed by 40 minutes after a parachutist had to be rescued from the roof of the stadium.

After a long stretch of slim pickings, the last couple of years have been huge for Android smartwatches. Now there are more good options than ever. But the market is fragmented. Wear OS 5 is here for Samsung’s Galaxy Watches, Google’s Pixel Watch 3, and soon, the OnePlus Watch 3 when it ships later this […]

Stars of the stage are walking the red carpet at the Royal Albert Hall ahead of theatre's biggest night.

Enzo Maresca stands by his decision to rotate his Chelsea team against Brentford - but will he come to rue the changes?

Liverpool's march to the Premier League title seems inevitable despite blip at Fulham. When could they be confirmed as champions?

Marine Le Pen made one thing abundantly clear. She is not going quietly.

The film boasts a star-studded cast including Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Jennifer Coolidge.

What lies ahead for Southampton after becoming the first team to be relegated from the Premier League with as many as seven games remaining?

Video shows the moment a parachutist got caught on the roof of a stadium ahead of a rugby match.

Fulham's seventh-place finish under Roy Hodgson remains their best in the Premier League. Under Marco Silva, they are set to match it - and maybe achieve even more.

Series including Doctor Who and Black Mirror are to return, as videogame South of Midnight is released.

Sale Sharks show spirit but fall short of a famous European win as defending champions Toulouse win a Champions Cup tie that was delayed in bizarre circumstances.

A 15-year-old boy who died after getting into difficulty in a lake in southeast London has been named as Izaiah Smith.

The French far-right politician spoke to a rally in Paris after being found guilty of embezzling EU funds.

People are gathering in cities all over the United States and globally to protest an “illegal, billionaire power grab” by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk. They’re being put on by over 150 different organizations, including civil rights groups, labor unions, and LGBTQ+ advocates, and span more than 1,300 locations. Last weekend, “Tesla Takedown” protests […]

Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar wins his second Tour of Flanders title, with defending champion Mathieu van der Poel finishing third.

If you’re taking your laptop away from the safe environs of your home or office desk and still want to stay online, you’ve got a couple of choices (assuming it doesn’t have cellular connectivity built in): hunt around for a Wi-Fi network you can connect to or run a Wi-Fi hotspot from your phone. Running […]

Warrington Wolves edge out St Helens 20-12 to reach the Betfred Challenge Cup semi-finals in a pulsating clash at The Halliwell Jones Stadium.

Hundreds of thousands of people signed up to attend over 1,300 “Hands Off!” protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk yesterday. Today, estimates from groups involved in planning the protests suggest the protesters in the US and abroad may have actually numbered in the millions. Activist group MoveOn is “estimating millions of attendees” went […]

Critically endangered Galapagos tortoises Abrazzo and Mommy are parents of four hatchlings at Philadelphia Zoo

My home network is a small miracle of backward compatibility, slinging data across 60-plus devices that span five generations of Wi-Fi. Everything on it, from my iPhone 15 Pro all the way down to my Nintendo Wii, manages to connect to the internet, most of it wirelessly through my router, with shockingly few issues. That’s […]

The blaze in Wivenhoe is the second in two days caused by cigarettes not being put out completely.

Lee Baker, 48, and his 10-year-old daughter Esme Baker died following the fire in Ingoldmells.

Southampton have broken an unwanted Premier League record as they became the first team to be relegated with seven games still to play.

An elderly British couple being held in a high security prison in Afghanistan have "never heard one accusation or one charge", their son has told Sky News.

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested there could be state intervention to protect UK business from tariffs introduced by Donald Trump.

The Nintendo Switch may be remembered as much for repopularizing portable gaming as it will for a hardware issue that affected millions of gamers: joystick drift. Drifting is the most common term for an issue where joysticks detect false inputs — even when no one is touching a controller — causing unwanted movements to happen […]

A hearing about Prince Harry's security arrangements is starting today in the Court of Appeal.

Police say they have contacted all veterinary practices in the city in a bid to locate the animal.

A chippy in Gloucestershire explains how rising fish costs are pushing up the Friday night favourite.

President Mnangawa says he wants improved relations, days after Donald Trump said the US would impose an 18% tariff on Zimbabwe.

The suspended surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge has been named as paediatric consultant Kuldeep Stohr.

Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang say they were "astounded" to be denied entry to the country while on a trip to visit the West Bank.

The British firm say no vehicles will be shipped in April as it processes the impact of Donald Trump's tariffs.