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By JOHN-PAUL FORD ROJAS, DEPUTY BUSINESS EDITOR Updated: 21:50 BST, 26 September 2025 Britain’s biggest pharmaceutical firms are scrambling to unravel the impact of a shock tariff announced by Donald Trump.AstraZeneca and GSK – two of the FTSE 100’s largest companies – are among the global drugs giants seeking to clarify how they would be affected by a 100 per cent levy.The British Chambers of Commerce said there was ‘fresh uncertainty for the UK’s pharmaceutical companies’.Trump yesterday stunned the industry as he declared tariffs would be imposed on imports of branded pharmaceutical products from next Wednesday unless the companies involved…

 Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.co.ukBy CAROLINE PEACOCK, SHOWBUSINESS REPORTER Published: 01:49 BST, 27 September 2025 | Updated: 01:51 BST, 27 September 2025 Coronation Street legend Barbara Knox has reminisced on her decades-long friendship with former co-star Thelma Barlow.Fans of the ITV soap will remember the pair starred as the dynamic duo Rita Tanner (Barbara) and Mavis Wilton (Thelma) for over two decades.While Barbara, 91, continues to appear on the soap, Thelma, 96, left the cobbles in 1997 after a solid 26-year run.In a new interview, Barbara reflected on some of her favourite characters she crossed paths with while…

A rare weather phenomenon could leave the flood-ravaged southeast under water again as two huge storm systems get closer to converging. Hurricane expert Chad Merrill told the Daily Mail that he fears Hurricane Humberto, a cyclone currently swirling over the north of the Caribbean, could soon collide with a brewing tropical storm near the same waters, named Imelda. The combined forces could trigger a terrifying result known as the Fujiwhara Effect, where tropical storms join forces in what meteorologists call a ‘dance’ as they twist around each other and become even more destructive. Merrill, who is a senior meteorologist for AccuWeather and has…

For thousands of years it was the biggest health threat in the world – killing actors, poets, kings and emperors.Previously called phthisis, consumption and even the White Plague, this deadly lung infection is today known as tuberculosis (TB).Despite sweeping advances in medical care, the World Health Organization (WHO) still considers it the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, killing 1.25 million people in 2023 alone.TB remains a relatively rare threat in the US, infecting several thousand of people annually and killing around 500 – far fewer than heart disease, cancer and dementia. However, cases are on the rise in 80 percent of US…

By ALESIA FIDDLER, TRAINEE REPORTER Published: 10:16 BST, 25 September 2025 | Updated: 10:16 BST, 25 September 2025 An airline is set to take flights to another level with the launch of what could be the world’s longest direct journey. China Eastern Airlines is introducing a new route that stretches from Pudong International in China and Ministro Pistarini International in Argentina, taking 25.5 hours.The return journey could take a staggering 29 hours, CNN reports, and has been dubbed as one of the longest in the world. The route will begin at the end of this year, from December 4, and will see flights…

Over the past six years they’ve weathered the sort of storms that would have left other families fractured and riven with recrimination.But such are the intense, if unconventional, bonds between the Duke of York, his former wife Sarah and their two daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, that their support for each other seems to grow ever stronger.It is, I’m sure, a pattern which will endure even now, in the aftermath of the latest – and arguably most distressing – revelation to date: the publication of an email Fergie wrote in 2011 and sent to Jeffrey Epstein, who’d been released from…

Britain will introduce a mandatory digital ID scheme for British citizens and residents in an attempt to curb illegal immigration. But the ‘dystopian’ plan has been met with furious backlash, with critics arguing that the move could infringe on civil liberties. Some have even voiced fears such a scheme could spiral into the kind of Orwellian-style surveillance used in China where facial recognition keeps a close eye on their huge population of 1.4 billion. The communist nation has been expanding its Big Brother-like mass surveillance system across the country. Chinese cops have been wearing sunglasses equipped with facial-recognition technology to catch criminal suspects over the last seven…

Radley’s name was referred to in court summonsBy ANDREW PRENTICE, SPORT REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 02:47 BST, 26 September 2025 | Updated: 02:47 BST, 26 September 2025 Footy star Victor Radley won’t play in the upcoming Ashes series for England after informing coach Shaun Wane he was unavailable for selection.It follows the Roosters forward’s unwitting involvement ex-teammate Brandon Smith’s cocaine scandal, which cost the Roosters star $200,000 and saw him postpone his 2026 wedding.Radley was issued a 10-game ban by the Tricolours for bringing the game into disrepute. He also handed over $30,000 to St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney and won’t be paid when sidelined next…

Mixed messages are coming from the High Street and the hospitality industry. Ahead of the Budget on November 26, the bosses of fashion giant Next and pub chain JD Wetherspoon are warning of the damaging impact on consumer spending of tax increases and tougher legislation.White goods firm AO, leisurewear chain JD Sports and Mitchells & Butler – the pub business – also this week raised the alarm.Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, highlighted data showing families are reining back expenditure; this month’s retail sales slipped for the 12th consecutive month.Investors will now be asking whether retail and hospitality…

Authorities are under mounting pressure to explain why singer D4vd has not been arrested after a dismembered body was discovered earlier this month inside a Tesla registered in his name.The remains, later identified as 15-year-old Celeste Rivas, were found stuffed in a bag in the car’s front trunk at a Hollywood impound lot on September 8.The car had never been reported stolen.Rivas, who had been missing for more than a year, reportedly shared a matching tattoo with D4vd.Her mother told investigators her daughter’s boyfriend was allegedly named David.The 19-year-old singer, best known for his breakout hit Romantic Homicide, initially continued…