Plans for a “megafarm” in Norfolk have been rejected by councillors concerned about its climate impact, in a test of whether a court ruling over oil and gas projects should be applied to the food ...

The Office for National Statistics is scaling back its work in key areas of public policy in order to focus resources on core UK economic statistics, according to plans published on Thursday.

The last time Russia and the US tried a reset was in 2009, under presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama. But today Russia has no interest in dusting off its playbook from back then. It has more ...

The latest round of new tariffs unleashed by Donald Trump will hit almost every industry across the globe, setting an unprecedented challenge for businesses already grappling with weak demand and ...

A paper about how tariffs need to be cleverly designed and carefully applied — and how Trump failed on consistently both ...

There are few outright winners from a global trade war. But tariffs are a blunt instrument. Sometimes, large headline numbers don’t fully reflect a sector’s exposure — which can create opportunities ...

The Co-op has revealed that groceries worth £80mn were stolen from its stores last year, providing further evidence of the heavy toll that shoplifting is taking on the UK’s retailers.

The ‘mountain kingdom’ of Lesotho joins Pacific island Nauru on list of countries hit with punishing US tariffs ...

China’s vice-minister of finance has said Sino-British government relations have faced “ups and downs”, but he is “optimistic” about deeper financial co-operation between the nations, as the first ...

The US will apparently charge tariffs on exports from Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, a volcanic archipelago near the ...

Apple lost more than $250bn in market value on Thursday, making it one of Wall Street’s biggest casualties of Donald Trump’s tariff blitz despite chief executive Tim Cook’s efforts to court the ...

The geographic pattern of digital dislocation’s impact may be very different from that of previous waves of automation ...