Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley buys Harvey Nichols
Frasers Group acquires majority of upmarket retailer’s sites from the administrators
Jack Crabtree obituary
Other lives: Painter with a distinctive form of social realism, rooted in his working-class upbringing
Tesla paid Elon Musk 2.5m times more as CEO than its average worker in 2025
Tech billionaire’s $158.3bn deal an outlier in report showing widening gap of CEO to worker pay at top companies
Is Australia’s buy now, pay later boom at an end?
Several firms promised to disrupt the consumer credit market by offering consumers their purchases instantly and the bill later. Did it work?
Polls open in Clacton, where Farage spent more than £10,000 in byelection against Count Binface – as it happened
The Reform UK leader resigned as the MP for Clacton at the start of July and forced a byelection
Andy Burnham ‘angry’ over water company bill increases; Sports Direct owner buys Harvey Nichols – as it happened
Live, rolling coverage of business, economics and financial markets as regulator says five companies can raise bills to pay for infrastructure for new housing and datacentres
UK economy shows surprising resilience – but that may not last
Weaker growth, rising energy costs and persistent inflation mean Britain could face tougher times in the autumn
South Korean airport becomes busiest in world for global traffic amid Iran war
Incheon airport had 38.39m international passengers in first half of 2026, as traffic diverted from Middle East hubs
‘I feel like I’m at war’: are we losing the battle against machine-made music?
Despite outcry from musicians, AI slop is creeping into the charts as record labels scramble to adapt to a new normal where hits can be made at the click of a button
UK economic growth slows down as Iran war pushes up energy prices
GDP expanded by 0.4% in three months to June, but analysts warn growth is ‘likely to fade’
Australia’s largest aluminium smelter to run on renewables by 2033 after Rio Tinto strikes $2.5bn taxpayer bailout deal
Rio Tinto makes power supply deal with federal and NSW government to cut emissions and decarbonise, preventing potential closure
India fuels worldwide jump in planned coal production
Rise in new mine proposals, mainly in states of Odisha and Jharkhand, comes despite plateau in global demand
Telstra CEO gets $700,000 pay rise to $6.8m despite Australia-wide outage
Telco board cuts senior executive bonuses by total $1.3m after tech fail that affected millions
Greenland forces Trump-linked US oil firm to delay drilling
US envoy had claimed Americans could be extracting crude by as early as next year
The Guardian view on Japan’s yen: Trump wants to keep the easy-money machine running
Editorial: A cheap currency helps finance the US tech boom. Washington is intervening because allies matter only when they are useful