Made.com, the online furniture retailer, collapsed into administration owing customers £17.1 million, new documents have revealed. A report on the finances published by administrators at PwC has calculated that the company went bust owing a total of £186.6 million to ...
A senior Bank of England policymaker has suggested that he could consider voting to cut UK interest rates, if growth and inflation are weaker than expected. Sir Dave Ramsden, BoE deputy governor, says that while he expects that interest rates ...
Twitter’s top advertisers are leaving the social media firm en masse, as Elon Musk’s grand plans scare away marketeers. More than a third of Twitter’s top 100 marketers have not advertised on the Elon Musk site in the last two ...
The first major wave of winter strikes begins today with lecturers, postal workers and teachers walking out amid the cost of living crisis. Schools in Scotland have been forced to close in the first national teachers’ strike since the 1980s. ...
Detectives are warning 70,000 potential victims after at least £48 million was netted by criminals operating an online fraud factory. The international scam was allegedly masterminded by a 34-year-old man living in a waterfront flat in Docklands, east London. At ...
CIANJUR, Indonesia — Indonesian authorities struggled on Thursday to get aid to thousands of evacuees displaced by a deadly earthquake in western Java, as rain-triggered landslides and difficult mountainous terrain hampered the efforts of rescue teams. Monday’s 5.6-magnitude earthquake in ...
NEW YORK — Retailers ranging from Walmart to Barnes & Noble are installing cameras or locking away items to deter shoplifters and thieves as they brace for a post-pandemic rush of holiday shoppers this year. Some, including Walmart, J.C. Penney, ...
BEIJING — China reported a record high number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections on Thursday, with cities nationwide imposing localized lockdowns and other curbs that are darkening the outlook for the world’s second largest economy. The surge in the ...
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister on Thursday, capping a three-decade political journey from a protege of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad to protest leader, a prisoner convicted of sodomy and opposition leader. His appointment ...
LONDON — It’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times. At least when it comes to mining coal. After years of decline, demand for the polluting fossil fuel has surged this year as Europe scrambles to replace Russian ...