How Britain’s former top banker became Canada’s prime minister
The former Bank of England boss, Mark Carney, became Canada’s prime minister after he was sworn in on Friday. He will need all his experience handling global economic crises as…
Clothes brand gets 100 complaints a day that models are ‘too fat’, says boss
The boss of online clothing brand Snag has told the BBC it gets more than 100 complaints a day that the models in its adverts are “too fat”. Chief executive…
Warning Thames Water collapse could cost taxpayers billions and hit pensions
Taxpayers and the pension schemes of Thames Water workers would both suffer if the UK’s largest water company was temporarily nationalised, the water regulator and Thames’ pension trustees have warned.…
Trump threatens EU wine and spirit tariff as trade war escalates
US President Donald Trump has threatened a 200% tariff on any alcohol coming to the US from the European Union (EU) in the latest twist of an escalating trade war.…
Judge orders Trump administration to give fired workers their jobs back
A judge has ordered several federal government agencies to reinstate the jobs of probationary employees fired en masse by the Trump administration last month. Judge William Alsup called the sacking…
Disabled people must have a say in rail reforms, MP says
Campaigners urge the Government to put accessibility at the heart of rail reforms The head of parliament’s transport committee has written to the rail minister, Lord Hendy, urging the government…
Trade war escalates as Trump pledges more tariffs
US President Donald Trump has pledged to impose more tariffs after his latest move to introduce import taxes on steel and aluminium entering the US prompted retaliation from the European…
Ireland ‘ready to work’ with US to bring peace, says Martin
US President Donald Trump has raised a “massive” trade imbalance with Ireland and accused the European Union of treating the US “very badly”. He made the comments during a bilateral…
‘Garbage’ to blame Ukraine for massive X outage, experts say
Experts have cast doubt on Elon Musk’s claim that a large-scale outage which hit X was caused by hackers in Ukraine. Platform monitor Downdetector says it had more than 1.6…
Man Utd plan to build ‘iconic’ £2bn 100,000-capacity stadium
This video can not be played Watch: Man Utd unveil images of new stadium Manchester United have announced plans to build the biggest stadium in the UK – an “iconic”…