Samsung Averts Strike With Last-Minute Pay Deal, Sending Shares Surging 6% Samsung Electronics reached a provisional wage agreement with its largest labour union just hours before a major strike was set to begin on Thursday, sending the company’s shares up…
Former Defence Secretary Found to Have ‘Allowed Perception of Impropriety to Develop’ Former Conservative Defence Secretary Sir Grant Shapps resigned on April 30 from his role as chair of Cambridge Aerospace after an official review found he had breached post-ministerial…
Cooking Gas Crisis Across Asia Forces Millions Back to Toxic Fuels, Threatening Public Health In a south Delhi slum, 35-year-old Afshana Khatoon spends six hours each day trudging through urban forests in temperatures exceeding 40°C, collecting firewood to cook for…
Billionaire Larry Goodman Pushes to Reopen Cork Oilfield Amid Ireland’s Fossil Fuel Dependency Larry Goodman, the Irish billionaire, is intensifying efforts to revive oil exploration off the Cork coast through his company Barryroe Transition Energy, reigniting a long-running dispute over…
UK Think Tank Urges Fuel Duty Cut and Speed Limit Reduction to Shield Economy from Iran War Fallout A prominent left-leaning think tank is calling on the UK government to cut fuel duty by 10 pence per litre and reduce…
Thousands of UK benefit recipients face early payments and rate changes in May Hundreds of thousands of UK benefit and state pension recipients will see their payment dates shift in May due to two bank holidays, with some claimants also…
UK Financial Regulator Questions Whether APRs Give Borrowers a True Picture of Credit Costs Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has launched a review of annual percentage rates (APRs), the standard metric used in credit advertising, after its own research found…
Britain’s Fish and Chip Shops Face Mass Closures as Energy, Oil and Fish Costs Spiral Thousands of British fish and chip shops are on the brink of closure as surging fuel, cooking oil and fish prices erode profits and drive…
A quantitative trading firm most people have never heard of generated more revenue last year than some of the world’s largest corporations. Jane Street, the secretive market-making giant, posted $39.6 billion in net trading revenues in 2025—nearly double its $20.4…
President Donald Trump’s new across-the-board US import tariff has taken effect at a rate of 10%, after the Supreme Court struck down a large part of his previous tariff programme last week. The 10% levy began at 12:01 a.m. in…