The Government has u-turned on plans to impose inheritance tax on farms worth upwards of £1million, raising the threshold to £2.5million instead. The change of heart, which is expected to lift most ...

Government plans to make inheritance tax due on pensions, plus other changes to IHT rules, have seen a leap in people enquiring about the use of trusts to protect their wealth. So what are trusts, and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The U.S. Navy will get two new battleships, the “largest we've ever built,” sometime in the 2030s, President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 22. Construction of the ships, designated Trump-class ...

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The fatal stabbings of filmmaker and actor Rob Reiner and his wife, the photographer and producer Michele Singer Reiner, have sparked widespread grieving. This tragedy, discovered on Dec. 14, 2025, is ...

LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Britain's government said on Tuesday it would scale back its plan to raise more tax from farmers, following months of protests since the introduction of an inheritance tax ...

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Top central banks forge ahead with closely watched cross-border payments testing A group of the world's leading central banks and over 40 major commercial banks are to step up testing of one of ...

This now-annual tradition — which usually drops in December but was pushed back a month to January — is available for those ...

From 6,141 Qatari genomes the authors chart structural variants tied to large-scale protein data, biobank traits and everyday health measures. When combined with single nucleotide variants, they find ...