The World Meteorological Organisation said 2011 is looking like the tenth hottest year on record and December has started with warm temperatures.

           I have been hearing on the media that we have just had the hottest April and May for many years, as measured by maximum temperatures. This is a curious way of reporting recent weather. You would have thought they would record average temperatures, as this is a more normal representation of what we experience

Worldwide, the first four months of 2011 have been exceptionally cool. But there's always l'exception francaise. France has had the hottest, driest spring [March - May] in memory. So carbon dioxide is up in France but down worldwide? Last year the El Nino boosted temperatures. This year La Nina has cooled them. This did not stop some claiming that 2010 would be a record year because of g...

It may be snowing hard in Britain, but 2010 is on course to be the hottest year ever recorded for the world, figures released by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) indicated yesterday.

Mark Field is MP for Cities of London and Westminster. The wisdom of the Coalition’s strict monthly cap on skilled immigration is the hottest topic for many of my commercial constituents. For multinational businesses, a liberal immigration policy is the...

At the suggestion of reader H__K this week not a breakdown by country, but by news categories. Please let me know if you like this better, or if you prefer the previous breakdown by country. Political News The hottest topic this past week has been if France and the UK are going to share carriers. The failure of the coalition talks in the Netherlands has effectively ruined the chances of a right-wi...

A 15-year-old schoolgirl has become France’s hottest literary property after writing a book about a teenager who loses her virginity at 14. He’s bidding for the film rights, of course, he just can’t decide whether to direct or take the leading male role himself.

Yes, indeed: England go out the them! on the hottest day of the year. An economic boom surely follows, right? By the way, for any five-oh sceptical of it all, I have one thing to say: just think of the overtime!

Breaking news. After over a century and a half of research the Met Office (formed, 1854) is able to reveal the secret of the British weather system. Far from the common conception of it as a capricious Goddess who must be propitiated with a complex series of manouvres involving kagoules, umbrellas and the ritual incantations of

A new levy on banks is the hottest idea in politics. The FT reported on Saturday that Alistair Darling would propose such a levy in the Budget, while David Cameron backed it on Saturday and Vince Cable says he had the idea long ago.