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A plate of Rich Tea biscuits is prominently placed in the centre of the table as Tate & Lyle chief executive Nick Hampton sits down at its swish London headquarters.

His 104-year-old company’s name may be synonymous with the sugar – and Golden Syrup – found on supermarket shelves, but …

Donald Trump will not be a knockout “meteor” to Ireland’s economy despite its heavy reliance on US multinationals, the head of the country’s business trade organisation has said.

While the US president told world leaders

gathered at Davos

The new chair of the UK’s competition regulator has promised to make its investigations into mergers and takeovers “simple and rapid”, after

government pressure for regulators to do more

Doug Gurr, the former Amazon UK boss who was announced as chair …

Donald Trump has said that the launch of a chatbot by China’s DeepSeek is a “wake up call” for US tech firms in the global race to dominate artificial intelligence.

The emergence of DeepSeek, which has built its R1 model chatbot at a fraction of the cost of competitors such …

Good morning. Since the emergence of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s groundbreaking artificial intelligence tool, American companies have appeared to have a huge head start in the development of the most significant technology of its generation.

But now a small Chinese rival has emerged that appears to match what OpenAI and the other …

When it came to his fleet of superyachts, the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich was nothing if not generous.

As 2011 drew to a close, his biggest boat yet – the 162-metre (533ft) Eclipse – lay moored in the glittering waters of St Barts, the picturesque Caribbean island where billionaires like …

A “catastrophic” collapse in shellfish numbers is being reported by Spanish fishers in Galicia, with some stocks falling by as much as 90% in the space of a few years.

Galicia is Europe’s principal source of shellfish and, after China, the world’s biggest producer of mussels, which are farmed in …

The launch of a new chatbot by Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek triggered a

plunge in US tech stocks

By Monday, DeepSeek’s AI assistant had rapidly overtaken ChatGPT as the …

New Zealand has relaxed its visitor visa rules to attract so-called “digital nomads” in a bid to boost tourism and the economy.

Visitor visas will now allow people to work remotely for a foreign employer while they are visiting New Zealand for up to 90 days. The visa can be …

The UK has given more than £12.5bn from energy bills to fossil fuel power plants in the past decade through a government scheme to keep the lights on during winter, according to new analysis.

The research found that, since 2015, the government has offered contracts worth £20bn