Dog owners have been put on alert after suspected palm oil washed up on a Merseyside beach. Lumps of the waxy substance were located on Egremont beach in Wirral ...

Long-term borrowing costs across some of the word's biggest economies hit fresh highs because of concerns over inflation, government debt levels and spending on Artificial Intelligence (AI).The interest rate ...

Iran did not acknowledge being responsible, but shipping analysts have said it was likely to have been behind the Minoan Pioneer attack on 3 August.Since the US and Israel ...

Donald Trump said the Strait of Hormuz would open "very soon" or Iran would be "hit very hard" as oil prices fell to a three-week low amid hopes of ...

Despite the big rise in profits, BP chief executive Meg O'Neill said the company was not reaching its full potential.BP, which employs nearly 14,000 people in the UK, confirmed ...

Shell's profits for the second quarter of the year have more than doubled after the Iran war pushed up oil prices.The oil giant posted profits of $9.84bn (£7.37bn) for ...

By Monday afternoon, the price of Brent stood at $90.60 a barrel, down more than 6% for the day.Susannah Streeter, chief investment strategist at Wealth Club, said markets were ...

The speculation on what happens now inspired President Trump to post, external on his Truth Social platform that:"The People of Aberdeen, in Scotland, are dancing in the streets because ...

Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told.The Labour Party's ...

Heating oil customers who had their orders cancelled and prices raised when the US-Israel war with Iran broke out will get compensation, the competition watchdog has said.Some 1,700 households ...

Belma, which had previously been sanctioned by the US under a former name for links with Iran, entered the Gulf on Tuesday after passing through the Strait of Hormuz, ...

At its peak, in the 1980s, the terminal was processing more than 1.5m barrels of oil a day.That figure is now less than 100,000.The oil company is also looking ...