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Bill Sweeney has revealed he is determined to stay on as the Rugby Football Union’s chief executive until 2027 – even if he loses a forthcoming vote of no confidence – and refused to apologise for accepting a £358,000 bonus amid record losses and redundancies.

Sweeney also distanced himself from …

Make-your-mind-up time approaches for the board of Thames Water. The directors may not like Ofwat’s so-called

“final determination”

It’s no secret that the video game industry is struggling. The last two years have seen more than

25,000 redundancies

You can only step back and applaud. The audacity. The vision. Never before has political nihilism been so wholeheartedly embraced. This was mainlined futility. Well, through any normal looking-glass. A new genre of postmodernism that would have left Derrida and Deleuze breathless and baffled. Four minutes and 40 seconds of …

Pope Francis has warned global leaders in Davos that artificial intelligence raises “critical concerns” about humanity’s future and it could exacerbate a growing “crisis of truth”.

Francis said governments and businesses must exercise “due diligence and vigilance” to navigate the complexities of AI.

In a written address at the World …

The Irish parliament has elected Micheál Martin as prime minister, 24 hours after chaotic scenes in the Dáil caused the cancellation of his formal appointment.

​Martin’s return to the role of taoiseach comes after a group of regional independent TDs (members of parliament), who are propping up his government, …

The UK’s competition watchdog has launched investigations into the impact of Apple and Google’s mobile platforms on consumers and businesses, days after the government faced criticism for installing a former tech executive as the organisation’s new chair.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will investigate the tech firms’ mobile operating …

Australia’s biggest supermarket chain, Woolworths, is selling a significantly smaller stick of Brut deodorant for more than double the unit price of the old product, in an extreme example of “shrinkflation” that leaves shoppers paying more for common household products.

While not unlawful, the pricing decision rubs against heightened public …

The family of the jailed British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd El Fattah have urged the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to prioritise the dissident’s release above trade deals during his visit to Egypt.

Fattah remains in a Cairo jail even though his sentence for dissent has been served. His

The EU trade commissioner, Maroš Šefčovič, has said

Brussels is open to British membership of a pan-European customs area

Šefčovič, who is responsible for post-Brexit relations for the EU,

told the BBC