Global oil prices jumped after Israel said it had struck Iran in a dramatic escalation of tensions in the Middle East.The price of the benchmark Brent crude rose more ...

Getty Images"Watch the courts" was the whispered message a well-connected diplomat told me in Washington DC last month, amid the previous episode of US tariff chaos.Most eyes were on ...

The resumption of the global trade war by Donald Trump comes after a period of relative calm.But the US president's threat of a 50% tariff on all goods from ...

Trade tariff uncertainty is "literally off the charts" but there will not be a global recession, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said.The international economic group said in its ...

Spotify says it has fixed an outage that left tens of thousands users around the world unable to stream music on the app.The firm said the the platform was ...

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has forecast that global trade will fall this year because of US President Donald Trump's tariffs."The decline is expected to be particularly steep in ...

BBCThere has been a historic upheaval in American trade policy.The announcement of Donald Trump's so-called "reciprocal tariffs" on 2 April - what he called "liberation day" - sent a ...

Esme StallardClimate and science reporterCostfoto/NurPhoto/Getty ImagesCountries have agreed a global deal to tackle shipping emissions, after nearly ten years of negotiations.The agreement covers the vast majority of the world's ...

The impact of these tariffs on the world economy will be huge. They can be measured by the lines on a chart of US tariff revenue jumping to levels ...

Global sales of smartwatches have fallen for the first time, new figures indicate, in large part due to a sharp decline in the popularity of market leader, Apple.Market research ...

Simon King and Mark PoyntingBBC Weather and Climate teamsGetty ImagesOf all the possible climate futures, there's a scenario where the United Kingdom and north-west Europe buck the trend of ...

Getty ImagesFans from over 500 Indian cities are expected to make their way to Ahmedabad to see Coldplay perform"Please come to my city!"A familiar cry from music lovers all ...