‘It sounds like witchcraft’: can light therapy really give you better skin, cleaner teeth, stronger joints?

From infrared saunas to LED beauty masks, a billion-dollar market has grown around the healing power of light. But where does the science end and the hype begin?

Supermarkets tell Reeves tax rises could push food prices higher

Households would ‘inevitably feel the impact’ of a surtax on business rates, say retailers in letter to chancellor

Does your boss have the right to time your bathroom breaks when you work from home?

For remote work arrangements to be successful, managers and employees need to meet somewhere in the middle

Trump sanctions have swift impact but will world stop buying Russian oil and gas?

Analysts say president’s war on Russia’s fossil fuel revenues is a chance to bring peace to Ukraine and profit to US

Right to buy in reverse: how Brighton is tackling its social housing crisis

The council is rolling back Thatcher’s flagship policy by buying stock from private landlords. Other local authorities should take note

Girl boss or tradwife? An economist on how a workforce built for men has failed women

In her new book Having it All, Corinne Low outlines how stubborn expectations around work and home fail to accommodate working women

Peer trying to derail UK smoking ban discussed bill with relative at tobacco firm

Lord Strathcarron says he and an in-law ‘high up’ at British American Tobacco discussed bill, which he aims to weaken

Do populists always crash the economy?

Argentina is counting the cost of its turn to Javier Milei. Politicians from Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage will be closely watching what happens next

Trump raises tariffs on Canada by 10% in retaliation for anti-tariff TV ad

Move is response to ad sponsored by Ontario that referenced Ronald Reagan’s support for free trade

The world dropped the ball on critical minerals and China pounced. Is it too late for Australia and the US to close the gap?

In the wake of Covid, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and China’s assertion in global markets, western countries have realised they can’t afford such concentrated supply chains

Pennsylvania city divided over Trump as it reels from economic whiplash

As Trump’s tariffs and funding cuts suspend projects in Erie, some residents view the changes as a necessary evil

Raise £12bn in budget by extending income tax thresholds freeze, says thinktank

Fabian Society says move ‘best available option’ for chancellor as she seeks to offset impact of weaker economic forecasts

Federal workers squeezed as shutdown drags on: ‘I can’t believe we’re not going to get paid’

Anxiety and economic stress among federal employees as Republicans and Democrats remain deadlocked on bill

‘If you use chocolate, you’re in crisis’: the surprise ingredients being used to beat costs

As costs and demand for chocolate rises – but cocoa yields fall – companies are innovating with surprising alternatives

‘My big shop used to cost £100, now it’s £150’: readers recount their shock at supermarket food bills

We hear your stories of how you balance the family finances, from buying own brands to cutting right back on weekly shop