The Guardian Articles

Sir Ben Ainslie has said he is “astounded” after Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos Britannia team announced a parting of ways with the four-time Olympic champion for this year’s America’s Cup. He also threatened to launch a “significant” legal fight in response.

Ainslie’s crew overcame Italy in the Louis Vuitton Cup …

Schools and businesses in a Jamaican city have been closed and taxis and buses stopped running after the police shooting of a powerful gang boss prompted a violent backlash.

Gunfire echoed throughout Spanish Town on Thursday and at least one business was burned hours after police shot dead Othneil “Thickman” …

The UK government has reportedly approached multiple restructuring advisers for the role of special administrator for Thames Water if the troubled utility falls into bankruptcy.

Teneo, Interpath and EY are among the companies contacted by the government as it prepares contingency plans should Britain’s largest water company be forced into …

Canada’s top court has agreed to hear a challenge to Quebec’s controversial secularism law, paving the way for a fierce debate over provincial powers and the fundamental rights of ethnic and religious minorities.

The supreme court signaled on Thursday that it would grant leave to appeal against the 2019 law …

Rachel Reeves will instruct bosses of the national wealth fund (NWF) and the new Office for Investment to work with regional mayors for the first time, as part of a package of initiatives to boost growth across the UK.

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After a meeting of combined authority mayors and civil servants …

The Barclays chief executive, CS Venkatakrishnan, could see his maximum pay package rise by 45% to more than £14m, as part of a new deal being considered by the bank’s board.

The high street lender is understood to have written to the bank’s largest shareholders regarding potential plans to overhaul …

Roughing up industry regulators, jetting to Davos to court the global elite, and preparing to greenlight airport expansion: after a difficult start to the year, Rachel Reeves is working overtime to regain business confidence.

Financial market turbulence at the start of the year has been followed by a pro-growth charm …

Thousands of people in the UK have been left unable to make or receive phone calls due to outages across the Three network.

Downdetector, a website that tracks outages, showed more than 10,000 reports of issues across the mobile network on Thursday.

Customers using smaller mobile companies Smarty and iD …

England’s players have been urged to jettison the mental baggage of heavy

recent club defeats

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 …