Britain’s fastest growing companies want Rishi Sunak’s new Conservative administration to focus on growth that does not damage the environment, and aren’t interested in the benefits brought about by cutting EU red tape, according to the results of a new ...

ATLANTA — A Powerball player in California holds the only winning ticket sold for the $2.04-billion jackpot, the lottery game’s website said on Tuesday, ending a string of 40 drawings that produced no winners and pushed the top prize into ...

EL BOSQUE, Mexico — Celia Figarola and her husband stayed in their simple seafront home by the Gulf of Mexico as long as they could — until, finally, the encroaching tide caused their walls to crack. Now what was Celia’s ...

TAIPEI — Taiwan hopes to sign a trade deal with Britain and deepen cooperation with new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government, President Tsai Ing-wen told a British minister visiting Taipei on Wednesday in defiance of Chinese demands such trips stop. ...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The hosts of the COP27 climate talks on Tuesday launched a global plan to help the world’s poorest communities withstand the impacts of global warming. Unveiling the Sharm-El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, named after the Egyptian resort where ...

PHOENIX, Ariz./BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — Control of Congress was up for grabs after Tuesday’s US midterm elections with many of the most competitive races uncalled, leaving it unclear whether Republicans would seize control from President Joseph R. Biden’s Democrats. In a ...

Made.com today confirmed that its brand has been bought by Next after the online furniture retailer, whose stock soared during the pandemic, fell into administration putting 500 jobs at risk. Made’s operating subsidiary, MDL, was forced to appoint administrators from ...

Elon Musk sold shares in Tesla worth almost $4 billion after completing his takeover of Twitter. The world’s richest person has now sold shares worth almost $20 billion in the electric carmaker since first disclosing a stake in Twitter in ...

Stephen Fry has deleted his Twitter account as the celebrity exodus from the social network continues under the ownership of Elon Musk. The actor and presenter posted a picture of Scrabble letters spelling out “Goodbye” to his 12.5 million followers ...

SEOUL — North Korea’s record year of missile launches has shown its willingness to pour resources into producing and deploying more weapons than ever, supported in part by overseas networks that provide funding and material, analysts say.  Last week the ...