Northern Ireland DUP seeking new candidate to replace Jeffrey Donaldson Gavin Robinson has said the DUP is seeking a new candidate in Lagan Valley to replace the former party leader
Telcos British competition body says proposed merger of Vodafone and Three faces full probeThe Competition and Markets Authority said a full investigation would be warranted unless the firms can address its concerns
UK Live: UK budget announced amid low growth and high national debt Chancellor Jeremy Hunt says Britain has the turned the corner on inflation
Companies Deliveroo reports stronger sales as takeaway giant optimistic on profitsCompany seeing ongoing signs of consumer behaviour returning to more normal levels in 2023 after slowdown
Aviation Boeing asks airlines to inspect 737 Max jets for possible loose boltRyanair, Europe’s biggest airline runs an exclusively Boeing 737 fleet and has recently ordered 300 Max aircraft
Energy Households endure another year of energy bill misery due to ‘volatile’ marketBills have dropped since their record highs, but the price cap will rise slightly again to just over £1,900 from January 1
Fine Arts Rembrandt sells for €12.8 million at auctionAdoration Of The Kings is one of only a few times that a narrative painting by the Dutch artist has been sold in recent decades
UK Politics Boris Johnson: I’m sorry for the pain and the suffering of the Covid victimsFormer British prime minister begins two days of evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
Politics Israel’s summoning of Irish ambassador ‘a bit of an overreaction’: Simon HarrisThe Minister for Further Education described the move as “a complete distraction”
Tech Facebook owner ‘knowingly designed its platforms to hook children’, court document saysMeta argued that age verification is a “complex industry challenge”
VIolence in Dublin Gardaí swarm O’Connell Street and make more arrests as trouble brews for a second nightA number of people were taken away in police vans following sporadic altercations
VIolence in Dublin Dublin burns as riot squad deployed to combat rioters and looters amid scenes of chaos Garda Commissioner orders Leinster House to be barricaded as a precaution as rioters cause chaos in city centre
UK Politics Braverman accused of ’emboldening’ far right after clashes with policeScottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said Home Secretary had encouraged them with her inflammatory rhetoric
Politics Taoiseach to raise LGBT rights with South Korean PresidentLeo Varadkar is in South Korea at present on a trade mission
UK Politics Keir Starmer: Labour is ‘redrawing the British political map’ following by-election victoriesThe results echoed Labour’s victory in a 1996 by-election that preceded Tony Blair’s 1997 general election landslide
UK UK economy in ‘horrible’ bind with no room for tax cuts as recession looms, report findsThe IFS said there was little toom for tax cuts “any time soon”, based on the state of the nation’s public finances
Politics Polish opposition leader says ‘democracy has won’ as he claims election winDonald Tusk, former president of the EU Council, declared victory for his opposition coalition
US Trump executive says ‘presidential premium’ was floated to boost net worthTrump is expected to return to court for the trial next week when fixer-turned-foe Michael Cohen is scheduled to take the witness stand