Rachel Reeves considering pay-per-mile tax for electric vehicles in budget

EV drivers would face 3p-a-mile charge on top of other road taxes to offset falling revenue from petrol and diesel cars

Workers decry Trump officials as ‘out of control’ as longest shutdown drags on

Key figures accused of harassment, bullying and attacks as US employees work without pay to keep services running

Threats, fear and hope as Mumbai slum dwellers await the bulldozers

Many of Dharavi’s 1m residents fear community hub will become playground for rich under Adani Group’s redevelopment plan

When is a tariff not a tax? When I say so, Trump tells supreme court

The fate of the US president’s signature, globe-rattling economic policy is in the hands of a court he shaped

Illegal tobacco burns $3.3bn hole in Australia’s tax revenue, crime agency says

ACIC report says total impact of illicit trade on economy amounted to $4bn in a year amid debate over cigarette excise

Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’

Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated

The RBA predicts inflation will rise faster than wages. Let’s hope it’s wrong

If the Reserve Bank is right, then by the end of 2027 the average wage will only have the same purchasing power as it did at the end of 2011

Marks & Spencer’s cyber-trauma is bad, but clearly manageable

Chief executive criticises chancellor before budget that could prove bigger threat to business than ‘the incident’

US supreme court justices express skepticism over legality of Trump tariffs

Justices grill administration over imposition of steep duties as Sotomayor says: ‘I just don’t understand this argument’

‘A lifeline’: how fashion designers came to love the high street collab

Since the 1990s, high fashion has sprinkled stardust on the high street – now collabs also help struggling designers

France moves to suspend Shein over sex dolls as debut store opens in Paris

The fast-fashion retailer has faced a backlash after the childlike dolls were discovered for sale on its website

Mediocre movies, millions in taxpayer cash: how scores of films from low-profile UK producer were funded mainly by public money

Creative industries are ‘crucial to the economy’ but film-making and tax have long had an uneasy relationship in Britain

Drax power plant to go on earning ‘over £1m a day’ from burning wood pellets

Analysts say Britain’s biggest power plant in line to earn £458.6m a year under new government subsidy contract

European markets down and Asian chipmakers tumble in global stock sell-off amid worries over AI bubble – as it happened

Deutsche Bank: Growing chorus of ‘whether we might be on verge of equity correction;’ China ends tariffs on US imports including farm goods but soy bean levies remain

My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar roaming the online world

In seven days my young alter ego is cyberbullied and attacked while exploring clubs, casinos and horror games, all with parental controls in place. Is the platform safe for children – or an ‘X-rated paedophile hellscape’?