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JD Sports has cut profit expectations for the second time in eight weeks, blaming heavy discounting across the fashion market.

The retailer said it did not expect any growth in sales at established stores during the year and warned that annual profits would be no more than £935m, down from …

Starbucks has said that people using its coffee shops in North America need to buy something, u-turning on a policy which allowed anyone to use its toilets even if they had not made a purchase.

The world’s biggest coffee chain this week published a new code of conduct saying that …

Amazon is to deploy nearly 150 electric heavy goods vehicles as well as piling packages on to trains and post-style trolleys in an effort to reduce the carbon footprint of delivering goods in the UK.

The tech company said it had bought more than 140 electric Mercedes-Benz heavy goods vehicles …

Good morning. In a grinding war where significant changes at the front are hard to discern,

a video released by Ukraine on Sunday

A 319-year-old Grade II-listed building in the heart of Bristol that was the headquarters of the precursor to the modern Labour party has been awarded £4.7m for a major renovation.

Kingsley Hall is deeply woven into Bristol’s history and has been witness to various social movements.

Once a Conservative club …

Wang Xing thought he was travelling to a casting call with film producers in Thailand.

The 22-year-old Chinese actor, also known by his stage name Xing Xing, had been communicating on WeChat with people he believed were Chinese employees of a major Thai entertainment firm, according to Thai police. One …

Qantas says it has been forced to delay several of its flights to South Africa at the last minute due to warnings of falling debris from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets re-entering Earth.

Ben Holland, the head of Qantas’s operations centre, said there was often little advance notice of where the …

Nearly 10,000 images of balls have plunged up to 90% in value after Tennis Australia appears to have walked away from its non-fungible token (NFT) program three years after it began selling the artworks to punters.

Launched at the peak of hype around NFTs, the Australian Open’s Artball program allowed …

Spain has announced plans to impose a tax of up to 100% on real estate bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK, in an aim to tackle the country’s housing crisis.

The measure was one of a dozen unveiled Monday by the country’s prime minister, …

Taxpayers are being asked to shoulder £1bn in debt amassed by a bankrupt Surrey council that will be merged in the government’s plan for the biggest transfer of powers to England’s regions this century.

Posing a fresh financial headache for the government, councillors in Surrey have requested that ministers “write …