The Guardian Articles

Google is being investigated by the UK competition watchdog over the impact of its search and advertising practices on consumers, news publishers, businesses and rival search engines.

The tech company accounts for more than 90% of general searches in the UK, according to the Competition and Markets Authority.

The CMA …

Authorities in Bangladesh have filed a criminal case against the UK Treasury minister, Tulip Siddiq, accusing her of misusing her position as an MP to gain influence and illegally acquire land with her aunt, the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

Siddiq has faced mounting calls to resign over her links …

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

a video released by Ukraine on Sunday

Schools, the NHS and local councils will be banned from making

ransomware payments

In a crackdown on such cyber-attacks, operators of critical national infrastructure will be barred from bowing to demands when criminal gangs hold IT systems hostage.

Payouts by private …

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 …

• Ukraine is not in a strong enough position for peace talks with Russia, Nato chief, Mark Rutte, said on Monday.

  “At this moment, clearly Ukraine is not there, because they cannot at this moment negotiate from a position of strength,” Rutte told EU lawmakers. “We have to do …

Cambridge spy Kim Philby said his choice was “between suicide and prosecution” in a confession shortly before the high-ranking M16 double agent fled on a Russian steamer in 1963, according to previously secret documents.

Philby, the “third man” in the Cambridge Five ring, was confronted by his friend, the MI6 …

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 …

Rachel Reeves will remain as chancellor until the next general election, Keir Starmer has insisted, as he warned the Treasury would be “ruthless” over public spending cuts to help meet the government’s fiscal rules.

The Treasury is looking for billions of pounds of savings from departmental budgets to balance the …

Tulip Siddiq should give up her ministerial responsibility for UK anti-corruption policy, a group of charities has said, amid concerns about

her links

The UK Anti-Corruption Coalition – which includes international groups such as Oxfam, Transparency International …