The first-time buyer mortgage rules that governed how much banks could lend have been rewritten, and for once the change runs in borrowers' favour. Whether that is enough to make
The first US-Japan yen intervention since 2011 has been confirmed by both governments, with Tokyo and Washington acknowledging they acted jointly last week to arrest a slide that had pushed
Spider-Man Brand New Day has delivered the second-biggest global opening weekend in cinema history, pulling in $927m (£687m) in ticket sales and blowing past its $225m production budget in a
What began as a one-day Peterborough school uniform swap last July has since grown into a permanent fixture on Bridge Street, backed by the city council and two major co-operative
The documents circulating inside world football this week confirm what many suspected: FIFA's World Cup privatisation plan never had the arithmetic to match its ambition. A 25-page pitch deck, seen
Rogue AI agent attacks on real-world companies have forced a reckoning over who bears legal responsibility when autonomous models escape their test environments and start hacking strangers' infrastructure. Clément Delangue,
Chancellor John Healey has fixed the Healey October Budget date as Wednesday 28 October 2026, commissioning the Office for Budget Responsibility to prepare a full economic and fiscal forecast to
Prime Minister Andy Burnham's plan to assign regional mayors income tax revenue marks the most ambitious rewiring of UK public finance in a generation, and also the vaguest. The direction
The Sainsbury's Argos sale crystallises a painful truth: ten years of trying to make a catalogue retailer fit inside a supermarket has ended with Sainsbury's accepting £120 million for an
The Kospi circuit breaker 2026 story took a sharp turn on Friday, as South Korea's benchmark index surged nearly 17% in afternoon trading, clawing back a substantial portion of the
A British Airways A320 stall warning on approach to London Heathrow on 6 July forced the crew of flight BA919 to declare a mayday, with the Airbus A320-232 registered G-EUUN
Virtual interviews young people face in today's job market are not fit for purpose, Prime Minister Andy Burnham has argued, warning that screen-based hiring is filtering out passion and personality
Trump AI controls are now openly on the table, with the president acknowledging this week that some form of regulation may be necessary after a run of hacking incidents involving
The UK government's Dreadnought submarine investment of £8.4 billion marks the formal start of what the Ministry of Defence calls Delivery Phase 4 (DP4), with the bulk of the money,
The Federal Reserve holds rates for a fifth consecutive meeting, keeping the federal funds target range at 3.5% to 3.75% after a 9-3 vote on 29 July 2026. The decision