US and Japan unveil $36bn of oil, gas and critical minerals projects in challenge to China

Donald Trump says deals ‘end our foolish dependence on foreign sources’, while Japanese PM hails enhanced economic security

The death of Heather Preen: how an eight-year-old lost her life amid sewage crisis

In 1999, Heather Preen contracted E coli on a Devon beach. Two weeks later she died. Now, as a new Channel 4 show dramatises the scandal, her mother, Julie Maughan, explains why she is still looking for someone to take responsibility

UK shoppers warned over spread of harmful and illegal skin lightening kits

Many products contain substances banned because of serious and sometimes irreversible health risks, says CTSI

Training more Britons may not cut net migration or plug skills shortages, study finds

Local workers can be difficult to attract because of poor pay and conditions, say researchers

Boost to British Steel as Turkey places high-speed rail order

‘Eight-figure agreement’ made to supply new line between Ankara and İzmir – but questions over plant’s future remain

‘It’s soul-crushing’: young people battle to find any work in bleak jobs market

Chair of UK government review says dramatic changes in labour market risks putting ‘a generation on the scrapheap’

Goldman Sachs to drop race, gender and LGBTQ+ criteria from board evaluations

The move follows pressure from an activist shareholder group seeking end to DEI requirements

UK interest rate cut likely in March as unemployment rate rises; youth joblessness to ‘increase significantly’ in coming months – as it happened

City traders expect cut to UK interest rates next month after jobless rate rises to 5.2%

Warner Bros gives Paramount seven days to make ‘best and final’ offer

Waiver from Netflix allows film company to engage with rival bidder if it could lead to a ‘reasonably superior offer’

Gen Z in the US: how are you feeling about your finances?

If you are age 18-29 and live in the US, we’d like to hear from you about the state of your finances and your biggest money concerns

Surging prediction markets face legal backlash in US: ‘Lines have been blurred’

At least 20 federal suits filed against companies like Kalshi and Polymarket as lawmakers call it ‘loophole’ for gambling

‘It’s betrayal’: Shetland’s scallop fishers brace for arrival of UK’s largest salmon farm

Huge project by Norwegian-owned Scottish Sea Farms gets go-ahead amid concerns over the environmental cost of fish farming and threat to traditional way of life

Boohoo and Debenhams owner raises £35m, risking Mike Ashley clash

Company, which also owns Oasis, Warehouse and Karen Millen, to use cash to cut debts and fund turnaround

UK shelves £110m frictionless post-Brexit trade border project

Programme launched by last Tory government was worked on by Deloitte and IBM but was paused in 2024

Hyatt chair Thomas Pritzker steps down over Epstein links

Billionaire says he exercised ‘terrible judgment’ in maintaining contact with sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell