Despite inflation reaching record levels coupled with great economic uncertainty, women in the UK built more businesses last year than ever before. A total of over 150,000 new companies were established by women in 2022, according to the Alison Rose ...
Aston Martin’s surprise strong showing at the first Formula One race of the season in Bahrain, where driver Fernando Alonso came third, might have contributed to a sharp rally in the share price of the sports car maker which shares ...
House prices across the UK are holding up better than most experts had thought, with the latest data suggesting that, after wobbling at the end of last year, they have stabilised so far in 2023. The average UK house price ...
The new Brexit trading arrangements in Rishi Sunak’s revised Northern Ireland protocol could take more than two years to be fully implemented, government sources have confirmed. Businesses in Northern Ireland say they expect a mass educational campaign to be launched ...
DUBAI — Iran’s supreme leader said on Monday that the poisoning schoolgirls is an “unforgivable” crime that should be punished by death if deliberate, state TV reported, amid public anger over a wave of suspected attacks in schools. Over 1,000 ...
WASHINGTON — Women have held just 12% of the top jobs at 33 of the biggest multilateral institutions since 1945, and more than a third of those bodies, including all four large development banks, have never been led by a ...
TOKYO — Japan’s new medium-lift rocket failed on its debut flight in space on Tuesday after the launcher’s second-stage engine did not ignite as planned, in a blow to its efforts to cut the cost of accessing space and compete ...
KUALA LUMPUR — French bailiffs attempted to enforce a seizure order on three Paris properties owned by the Malaysian government in a case linked to a $15-billion court award to descendants of a former sultan, according to the heirs’ lawyers ...
DUBLIN – A new pact to facilitate the safe transfer of EU citizens’ personal data to the United States might not come into force in time to avoid a suspension of Facebook‘s transatlantic data flows, the US firm’s lead European regulator said on Tuesday. Facebook owner Meta, which has warned a stoppage could force it to suspend Facebook services in Europe, declined ...
BOSTON – A social media influencer and self-proclaimed con artist pleaded guilty on Monday to fraudulently obtaining more than $1 million in COVID-19 pandemic-related loans from the US government that she used to bankroll a lavish lifestyle that she flaunted on Instagram. Danielle Miller, whose scams in this and other cases were ...