The UK economy is showing signs of emerging from recession, with new official figures indicating a 0.2 per cent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) in January. According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the economy rebounded at the ...
The governor of the Bank of England has acknowledged the challenges faced by policymakers due to unreliable data, expressing a desire for more accurate figures on the unemployment rate. Andrew Bailey, speaking to an audience in Italy, noted that the ...
WASHINGTON – The US House of Representatives plans to vote on a bill on Wednesday that would give TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the US assets of the short-video app used by about 170 million Americans or face ...
LONDON — The number of children globally who died before their fifth birthday dropped to a record low of 4.9 million in 2022, but that still represents one death every six seconds, according to new United Nations (UN)estimates. While the ...
WASHINGTON — China could use social media app TikTok to influence the 2024 US elections, US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a House of Representatives intelligence committee hearing on Tuesday. Asked by Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi if China’s ...
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia was technically ready for nuclear war and that if the US sent troops to Ukraine it would be considered a significant escalation of the war. Mr. Putin, speaking ...
NatWest, the UK’s largest business bank with 1.5 million business customers, is set to provide expedited access to loans of up to £250,000 within 24 hours of application, in response to increasing competition from alternative lenders. The bank has recently ...
Business planning. Two words that fill us all with joy. No? Pointless, tick box exercise and a pain in the proverbial for all concerned? That sounds more like it. The big problem with business planning is that we need to ...
BEIJING – Last August, Zhang Zhaolin pulled her 10-year-old son out of soccer classes that he loved after she was laid off from her job at a Chinese internet firm. Ms. Zhang, who had worked in livestreaming and was let go earlier ...
Russia’s AS-31 deep-diving nuclear powered submarine, known by its nickname as Losharik, will go out for testing in June or July after completing years of repairs, the state TASS news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an unnamed military source. “The ...