BP is selling a $6bn (£4.4bn) stake in the historic British engine oil business Castrol in an effort to pay down a mountain of debts. The oil giant confirmed on Wednesday that it was selling a ...

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We were at a dinner in November 2023, when I heard Henry, a friend of a friend, talking about how he was going to row the ...

A rabbi’s car carrying a “Happy Chanukah” sign has been firebombed in Melbourne in a suspected anti-Semitic attack. The ...

A convicted murderer stabbed a British teenager to death and attacked his mother before turning the knife on himself and blowing up their home in Portugal. Alfie Hallett, 13, is thought to have been ...