Pope Leo XIV will give his first Sunday blessing and address to a crowd in St Peter’s Square in the Vatican today. He will recite the Regina Caeli prayer, in honour of the Virgin Mary, in his first public address since his election was announced with white smoke on Thursday. After delivering Sunday mass, Pope…
President Trump said Wednesday that he would not lower high tariffs on goods from China ahead of talks this weekend between U.S. and Chinese officials, despite requests from Beijing to do so. Asked by reporters in the Oval Office if he would reduce tariffs on Chinese exports — which are now at a minimum of…
Jessica Murphy & Brandon Drenon BBC News Watch: Carney is asked how he plans to ‘avoid an Oval Office ambush’ In his first news conference since the federal election, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out his priorities, including how he will approach upcoming talks with US President Donald Trump. His election campaign focused on…
Donald Trump has signed a controversial executive order aimed at stepping up deep-sea mining within US and in international waters. Thursday’s order is the latest issued by the US president to try to increase America’s access to minerals used by the aerospace, green technology and healthcare sectors. The deep sea contains billions of tonnes of…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a cabinet meeting held by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on March 24, 2025. Win McNamee | Getty Images Tesla shares fell almost 6% on Monday, a day ahead of the electric vehicle company’s first-quarter earnings report, as analysts fret over “ongoing brand erosion.” The stock closed…
Reuters Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr Albusaidi in Muscat Iran’s foreign minister has arrived in Oman for talks with the United States over Iran’s nuclear programme. Abbas Araghchi told Iranian state television his country wanted a “fair agreement” as delegations from both countries prepare for negotiations. US President Donald…
Donald Trump is a man in a hurry. In the few short months he has been in office, the US president has sought and failed to bring peace to Gaza and Ukraine. He has bombed Yemen. He has launched a global trade war. Now he is turning his attention, such that it is, to Iran….
Watch: What we do and don’t know about Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs Donald Trump says tariffs are coming. That message from the US president has been consistent. But what tariffs and when? Import taxes have come so thick and fast since he took office that it can be hard to keep track. Trump has already…
Getty Images Lawyers for Elon Musk argued that Wisconsin’s attorney general was curtailing his free speech in trying to block the cheque giveaway Billionaire Elon Musk has given away $1m (£770,000) cheques to voters in Wisconsin after the state supreme court refused to intervene. Musk announced the prize earlier this week, ahead of Wisconsin’s tightly…
US negotiators are holding talks in the Saudi capital Riyadh with their Ukrainian counterparts and separately with the Russians on Monday. Washington’s aim is to bring about an immediate partial ceasefire to the war in Ukraine, followed by a comprehensive peace deal. So could these Riyadh talks produce the breakthrough so many are hoping for?…
