Minutes before Donald Trump's announcement on Iran sent global markets into chaos, someone placed a huge bet on oil. They ...

There is no end in sight to rising fuel prices but supplies are "stable", according to an industry body.

The Earth's climate is in a "state of emergency", according to the United Nations which has warned it is more out of balance ...

The last 24 hours of eye-wateringly expensive missile duelling over the Persian Gulf has made one point above all.

The UK COVID-19 public inquiry is set to publish insights on how the healthcare system coped in the face of the virus.

A fifth of the world's oil and gas trade passes through the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran is attacking maritime traffic in the ...

Earth experienced its fifth-warmest February on record last month - with temperatures at 1.49C above pre-industrial levels, ...

Naval escorts will not guarantee safe passage for oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and could even present a target ...

The US central bank has raised its forecast for inflation as the Iran war-linked surge in global energy prices threatens self ...

Donald Trump has raised hopes several times that the US-Israel military strikes on Iran may soon be over.

The conflict in the Middle East just gets better and better for Vladimir Putin.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani has described Iran's strikes on Gulf countries as a "dangerous miscalculation" - ...