The Guardian Articles

The gambling regulator has accidentally handed over more than 4,000 sensitive documents to lawyers acting for the media tycoon Richard Desmond, in an “unprecedented” blunder during its

legal battle over the £6.4bn national lottery contract

Northern & Shell (N&S), the investment group owned by …

Donald Trump’s

shutdown of USAid

The result of the sudden 90-day suspension of USAid funding – which accounts …

Donald Trump had yet to get his feet under the Oval Office desk when he held his first meeting with a foreign leader in late 2016.

Shinzo Abe

Green campaigners fear ministers are poised to award billions of pounds in fresh subsidies to Drax power station, despite strong concerns that burning trees to produce electricity is bad for the environment.

Drax burns wood to generate about 8% of the UK’s “green” power, and 4% of overall electricity. This …

The new chief executive of HSBC, Georges Elhedery, could scoop a maximum pay package worth more than £15m, as part of a potential deal being put to its biggest shareholders.

The bank’s remuneration committee is testing whether investors are receptive to an overhaul that would slash Elhedery’s salary but boost …

Rachel Reeves’s plans for growth suffered a double blow after the Bank of England halved its forecast for the year and warned households would face mounting pressure from rising prices.

In a downbeat assessment as it

cut interest rates for a third time in six months

Rail bosses have been accused of patronising passengers by hiding trains’ departure information minutes before they are due to leave in a bid to tackle last-moment platform dashes.

Under the scheme, which is being trialled at King’s Cross, the final call for long-distance trains will be made four minutes before …

International outrage in recent days has focused on Donald Trump’s proposal that the US take “ownership” of Gaza, and that more than two million Palestinians be displaced to allow the territory to be transformed from “a demolition site” into

a “riviera” in the Middle East

In Jordan …

Struggling Thames Water may gain less than £500m in usable cash while taking on £1.5bn in emergency debt because of expensive fees and interest costs, a Londonhigh court has heard.

Thames Water is seeking approval from the court for a restructuring deal with existing creditors that would provide £1.5bn in …

Never confuse a stock market index with a symbol of national economic health. The truth of that old piece of wisdom was demonstrated on Thursday as the FTSE 100 went on a rip-roaring run – up 104 points, or 1.2%, to a new closing high of 8,727 – while the …