The UK's FTSE 100 closed at an all-time high on Thursday, boosted by gains in mining and healthcare stocks, as investors brushed off the latest U.S. tariff threats to focus on negotiations., The commodity-heavy FTSE 100 rose 1.

A third official heat wave is expected to descend this weekend, with record-breaking temperatures possible in Scotland.

Normal practice is for French police officers to slice through the material of any of these small boats that end up back on shore - but this one stays in the water.

The UK's FTSE 100 blue chip index rose to a fresh record high on Thursday, supported by strength in healthcare and materials stocks.

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ruled a quarter of the earth’s landmass, has seen its overseas empire reduced to a handful of small possessions over the last seventy years.

Britain’s royal train service has been deemed too expensive, so now it’s being ditched in favor of helicopters and scheduled rail journeys. Not everyone is happy about it.

London-based financial technology giant Revolut is in talks to secure new funding at a valuation of $65 billion, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Like the lead character of “Too Much,” they moved across the Atlantic with visions of Jane Austen and Merchant Ivory. The reality was a little less dreamy.

Yet few people in politics seem able to square all that with the fact that Britain is already living beyond its means and depends on loans from foreigners to pay the bills. The doomsters are right, but failure also contains a copper lining.