Britons with second homes in France are facing a “galling” increase in taxes on properties they can visit for only half the year. Owners have already been hit with post-Brexit restrictions that limit visa-free stays in the European Union to ...
Wilko’s administrators have halted immediate redundancies for the chain’s 12,000-strong workforce amid claims from the staff union that bidders for the business have faced “difficulties” in negotiations. PwC has put store closures on hold to further assess bids for the ...
The number of homes being bought and sold this year is expected to drop by a fifth to the lowest in over a decade, the latest evidence that dearer mortgages and a cost of living crunch have paralysed Britain’s housing ...
British officials are warning organisations about integrating artificial intelligence-driven chatbots into their businesses, saying that research has increasingly shown that they can be tricked into performing harmful tasks. In a pair of blog posts due to be published Wednesday, Britain’s ...
The UK, once a magnet for millionaires from the globe’s four corners, is losing its lustre. The past six years indicate a reversal in the wealth migration trend, with the country witnessing an outflux of the affluent and a reduced ...
A Manhattan federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Unilever Plc on Tuesday that claimed the company misled United States investors by not immediately disclosing a decision by its Ben & Jerry’s unit to stop selling ice cream in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. A Michigan pension fund sued in ...
X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, said Tuesday it would now allow political advertising in the U.S. from candidates and political parties and expand its safety and elections team ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Before billionaire Elon Musk acquired the company in October, Twitter had banned all political ads globally since 2019. ...
LONDON — The number of house purchases in Britain this year is on course to drop by 21% to its lowest since 2012 as a result of rising borrowing costs, property website Zoopla forecast on Wednesday. Zoopla forecast there would be ...
BRUSSELS — Fossil fuels produced just 33% of the EU’s power in the first half of this year, the lowest share on record based on data going back to 1990, researchers said on Wednesday. The main reason was lower electricity ...
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday said its August 2021 allocation of $650 billion in Special Drawing Rights helped countries cope with the COVID pandemic and averted worse outcomes, but cautioned against rushing into future allocations. “While an ...