The House of Representatives easily passed a bill late on Wednesday to tighten sanctions on Iran, sending a strong message to Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme days before President-elect Hassan Rouhani is sworn in.

The House of Representatives easily passed a bill on Wednesday to tighten sanctions on Iran, showing a strong message to Tehran over its disputed nuclear program days before President-elect Hassan Rouhani is sworn in.

The French-owned energy supplier EDF has announced profits in the UK of £903m for the first half of the year, thought to be boosted by demand for gas during the coldest spring in half a century.

The Government is expected to take back control of the clean-up of nuclear waste at Cumbria's Sellafield, following a string of failures by a private sector consortium of US, French and British engineers. Alarmed by spiralling budgets – £70bn and counting – and a series of delays to crucial projects, the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) has quietly drafted in a team of consultants from the accountants KPMG to review how Sellafield is run, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.

Many are sceptical that government-led effort will make area habitable again

Humanity is currently on course to double or even triple the carbon dioxide content of the Earth’s atmosphere by the end of this century.

Voters have handed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a resounding victory in Japan’s general election, ending a gridlocked parliament and giving him one of the strongest political mandates for a Japanese leader in years.

Defence officials call revelations a 'failure to defend our own networks' and introduce new rules for contractors

Is a Britain with nuclear missile-equipped submarines a safer place to live, now and into the future? That is the crux of today's debate on replacing Trident - the weapon system that will cost an estimated £100bn over the next 30 years.

Ministers argue that having nuclear submarines permanently patrolling our waters has “served us well”

Israel's prime minister told the US television network CBS that Iran is getting “closer and closer to the bomb”

Government says it will ‘respect public opinion’ and scrap the proposed uranium-enrichment facility

Yoshida was widely praised for staying in post and limiting the impact of the nuclear disaster

His critics say he lacks the political experience to lead Egypt, so 71-year-old Mohamed ElBaradei will need to draw on a past of international diplomacy, largely made up of advising the UN on nuclear weapons.