‘You can bet on it’: Utah lawmakers form united front in push to ban prediction markets

Utah’s heavily Mormon population is largely opposed to all gambling, even on financial exchange platforms

Oil prices rise and bonds wobble as Iran war stokes inflation fears

Trump warning over peace talks drives up crude price as UK gilts hit by uncertainty over Starmer leadership

BA’s ‘no-show’ clause cost me £9,000 for new flights

We cut out one leg of our journey, but a clause allows airlines to cancel a whole journey if a passenger misses just one leg

More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity

Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets

Passenger detained and banned from Qantas after allegedly biting attendant on flight from Australia to US

Flight from Melbourne to Dallas forced to land in Tahiti due to man’s alleged disruptive behaviour

Campaigners threaten legal action over UK-US deal on prices NHS pays for drugs

Two campaign groups claim that change to how NHS treatments are approved amounts to ‘unlawful power grab’

UK firms halt investments and hiring as Iran war pushes up costs, bosses warn

Survey shows businesses ‘struggling to absorb latest economic shock’, while data says April vacancies down 7.7%

Government-backed Pensions Commission calls for action on gender savings gap

Body says, on average, British women approaching retirement have half private pension savings of men – £81,000 versus £156,000

Crime increasingly a ‘serious barrier’ to UK growth, say business leaders

British Chambers of Commerce survey shows firms ‘are dealing with rising levels of theft, fraud and cyber-attacks’

The Guardian view on Cuba: Trump says he can do ‘anything I want’ to the island. It doesn’t belong to him

Editorial: Buoyed by his removal of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, the US president is intensifying an economic stranglehold and military menace

Toothbrushes, ice-cream and frozen pizza: data reveals how Coles and Woolworths switch promotions in sync

Exclusive: Analysis shows in some cases the switch from promotional to full price happens almost simultaneously in Australia’s two biggest supermarkets

Thames Water investors say temporary nationalisation would slow its recovery

Comments come after Andy Burnham says he would renationalise water and other businesses as PM

Whatever happens with the leadership, Labour must tackle the issue of social care head-on

The challenge of how to look after an ageing population has been ducked by politicians for too long

‘It was like a mosh pit’: Swatch closes stores as watch launch causes crowding and scuffles

Paris police used teargas on Saturday and UK shops stayed shut on Sunday after rush for Royal Pop timepieces

Workers racing to turn reflecting pool blue for Trump may be at risk, union warns

Union representative concerned about safety as workers rush to finish repainting DC pool before 250th celebrations