Bill Gates cancels keynote speech in India amid questions over Epstein ties
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder pulls out of India’s AI Impact Summit to ‘ensure the focus’ remains on event’s ‘key priorities’
Retailers in UK plan to cut staff hours and jobs amid rising employment costs
BRC survey finds finance bosses expect technology to improve productivity, with 69% pessimistic about the economy
Coles’ shameless ‘Down Down’ promotions have been exposed. So why aren’t they even trying to rebuild trust?
Woolworths and Coles are big companies that plan to stay around for a long time, yet neither has committed to a policy of truthful advertising
Trump’s immigration siege is rattling hospitality industry, workers say
Unite Here, the US’s largest hospitality workers’ union, says ICE crackdown is harming tourism and costing jobs
FCC chair Brendan Carr says media were ‘lied to’ over Stephen Colbert controversy
Carr says the Federal Communications Commission has also opened an enforcement action into ABC’s the View
‘Grace period’ needed for dual nationals returning to UK on second passport, say Lib Dems
Will Forster MP says ‘lack of planning and haphazard communication’ on new border rules has caused chaos
Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne
Without AI you will be a ‘weaker and poorer nation’, says former UK chancellor two months into job at US firm
UK politics: Starmer says Reform’s pledge to restore two-child benefit cap in full is ‘shameful’ – as it happened
Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick has announced party’s plans to cut welfare spending
US judge says lawsuit over Buffalo Wild Wings ‘boneless wings’ lacks meat
The restaurant can keep menu term despite claim product is ‘essentially chicken nuggets’, Illinois ruling says
‘By the end of the day we’re just knackered’: business booms for UK’s south Asian jewellers as gold prices soar
Economic uncertainty drives customers to snap up 22-carat gold bars and coins or sell off unworn jewellery
Reform UK would restore two-child benefit cap, Jenrick says in policy U-turn
Treasury spokesperson says disability benefits would also be limited under Reform, but Bank of England would stay independent
March cut to UK interest rates more likely after inflation drops to 10-month low; London house prices fall – as it happened
FTSE 100 hits record high after UK inflation falls to 3% in January, thanks to cheaper petrol and air fares, and a slowdown in food inflation
Household energy bills in Great Britain forecast to fall by £117 a year
Consultancy’s prediction comes after Rachel Reeves said green subsidy costs would be removed from domestic bills
Death tax? Property tax? Four ideas that could offset inheritance inequality in Australia
How do we solve the predicted entrenched disparity arising out of the great wealth transfer? We ask economists for their suggestions
As real wage growth falls again, Australian workers must feel the economy is rigged against them
The RBA never misses a chance to blame wages for rising prices but data shows profit-driven inflation is back