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Ministers have ruled out a full ban but propose cutting the permitted noise of consumer fireworks and restricting louder ones to professionals. Animal charities back the plan, the fireworks industry does not.
Six big European oil companies made more than double last year's profit in the first nine months of 2026, as the war with Iran lifted oil prices, a Global Witness analysis found.
A think tank estimates fire smoke caused twice as many deaths in September as in August. A record 57.8 million people breathed unhealthy to hazardous air, and the fires are more intense than in 2015.
Lawyers for Luigi Mangione have filed fresh paperwork seeking to throw out the state case over the UnitedHealthcare executive's killing, citing New York's double-jeopardy law after his federal guilty plea.
Founder Darius James set up the company in a post-industrial town after a council backed him as a ten-year-old.
Ahead of a Commonwealth summit in Antigua and Barbuda, the prime minister said he was open to a state apology and talks, but ruled out financial reparations and announced a debt drive.
Japanese drugmaker Sumitomo Pharma says the first patient has been treated with iPS cell-derived brain cell precursors for Parkinson's disease, after the therapy won conditional approval in March.
Leon Skapars, 36, has stage four kidney cancer. His wife says the Everton player's gift put the US trial within reach.
Port employers and the ILWU's Local 26 have extended talks, postponing a walkout of about 250 maritime watchmen that was threatened for 1 November at the two busiest US container ports.
A shortage of players has left the Carmarthenshire club with one team, and its manager wants more help from the WRU.
The second of four Turkish-built CalMac ferries has not secured final approval. Its handover has slipped from October to mid-November.
Storm water damaged the electrics of the Renfrew bridge to Yoker and Clydebank. Traders and hospital visitors say the closure adds to flood losses.
A Dublin court has sentenced three men for planning to attack the Maryam Mosque in Galway. One of them is from Annalong, County Down. Gardaí linked them to a self-styled extremist group.
Jarvis Cocker and other band members were at the unveiling of the plaque, then met fans at a nearby pub.
In a filing to the US Trade Representative, Italy's Grimaldi backs extending the suspension of Section 301 port fees and asks for permanent relief for foreign-built vehicle carriers.