The Guardian Articles

The UK competition watchdog has launched an investigation into several British roofing and construction services companies over allegations they “illegally colluded to rig bids” to win contracts for repairing schools.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it suspected that the companies, including building contractors and technical advisers, had worked …

With less than six months to go before the election, it is time to be alert to the numbers and phrases used by politicians, especially when they are trying to tell you that you will be better off under their policies. On this score it is best to pay particular …

The rate of US inflation barely moved in November, the last piece of major economic news before the Federal Reserve weighs whether to cut interest rates for the third time this year at its meeting next week.

Prices rose 2.7% in November compared with a year before, according to consumer …

Unrest set off by silencing of cleric

By

Ian Traynor

The seeds of popular revolt that appear to be taking root across Romania were sown last Thursday in the north-western town of Timisoara when President Nicolae Ceaușescu’s security forces moved to evict the …

Romania’s pro-EU parties have committed to forming a coalition government and, in a concerted attempt to head off a resurgent far right, could field a single candidate for the country’s annulled presidential election when it is rerun next year.

The Social Democratic party (PSD), their current coalition partners the centre-right …

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX and its investors have agreed to buy shares from its employees, valuing the business at $350bn (£275bn).

The US business, in which Musk owns a 42% stake, and its backers are buying the stock at $185 a share, up from $112 a few months ago, …

The Electoral Commission of Ghana was due to announce the official results of Saturday’s presidential elections by Tuesday. But by Sunday morning, Mahamudu Bawumia, the country’s vice president and flag-bearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and his campaign team had seen enough

to give up

Asylum seekers will be housed in disused care homes and student digs under a Home Office plan to find 800 new accommodation sites and cut a bill that has risen to £8m a day.

Home Office sources have confirmed to the Guardian that the fundamental changes to asylum accommodation are …

Good morning. There are certain phrases in news stories about government, aren’t there, where your eyes glaze over like you’ve just wound down the window and asked someone for directions. Autumn statement; early day motion; fiscal rules; white paper; ping pong, weirdly. They’re definitely all very important, but it would …

Labour should build 12 new towns in England that are not car-dependent or built on flood plains, a former government adviser has said in a report.

A detailed plan for a dozen new towns, proposed by thinktanks Britain Remade and Create Streets, would mean 550,000 well-designed and appropriately located homes. …