Insurance firm LV has reported a jump in like-for-like profits for the first half of the year, despite a downturn in sales for its life and pensions business.
August 6, 2019
Former Virgin Money boss Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia will not take up her post on the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee after being appointed to head up Salesforce in the...
August 6, 2019
Domino's chief executive David Wild is to step down from the business after five turbulent years at the top, beset by arguments with franchisees and difficulties expanding beyond the UK.
August 6, 2019
Indian MPs are set to ratify a bill downgrading the governance of the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir as an indefinite security lockdown continues in the disputed Himalayan region.
August 6, 2019
Energy watchdog Ofgem has proposed a “tough but fair” approach to price controls on electricity networks as they strive to meet green energy targets.
August 6, 2019
Fast-fashion internet giant boohoo has confirmed it has made an offer to buy the online businesses of Karen Millen and Coast.
August 6, 2019
Holiday Inn owner InterContinental Hotels Group has seen half-year profits jump 25% despite slowing growth in Greater China amid the trade war with America and protests in Hong Kong.
August 6, 2019
Powerful explosions at a military depot in Russia's Siberia have left 12 people injured and one missing, forcing over 16,500 people to leave their homes.
August 6, 2019
Two-hundred survivors and relatives from the Christchurch mosque shootings are travelling to the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia this week as guests of King Salman.
August 6, 2019
As two mass shootings brought the issue of gun control back to the forefront of US public debate, one man's unlikely defence of the second amendment – the right to...
August 6, 2019
David Wild has quit as chief executive of Domino's as he revealed that an ongoing feud with franchisees is unlikely to be resolved until next year.
August 6, 2019
A Chinese official responsible for Hong Kong affairs says punishment for those behind weeks of sometimes violent protests in the Chinese special administrative region is “only a matter of time”.
August 6, 2019
It was 50 years ago this week that Charles Manson dispatched a group of disaffected young followers on a two-night killing rampage that terrorised Los Angeles.
August 6, 2019
The prosecutor who helped jail members of the Manson “family” says the surviving members of the gang should never be released from prison.
August 6, 2019
Engine-maker Rolls-Royce has reported narrowed half-year losses, but revealed ongoing woes with its Trent 1000 turbine issues.
August 6, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has accused President Donald Trump of using the language of white nationalism and said he would push for a federal buyback programme to encourage Americans...
August 6, 2019
Hiroshima has marked the 74rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city with its mayor renewing calls for eliminating such weapons and demanding Japan's government do more.
August 6, 2019
The Trump administration has frozen all Venezuelan government assets in a dramatic escalation of tensions with socialist leader Nicolas Maduro, who has stubbornly clung to power in the face of...
August 6, 2019
India has revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in its relationship with neighbouring Pakistan, moving to grasp its only Muslim-majority region...
August 6, 2019
The distraught family of missing 15-year-old Nora Quoirin have appealed for help in finding her.
August 6, 2019
Supermac's has been successful in gaining a landmark EU decision against McDonald's to partially cancel the 'Mc' trademark after the fast food giant claimed exclusivity over it.
August 6, 2019
State television in Turkmenistan has shown the country's eccentric president driving near a flaming gas crater in the first footage of him since rumours of his death.
August 6, 2019
Internet message board 8chan went offline temporarily after its cyber-security provider cut off what it called a "cesspool of hate" linked to the shootings in Texas and Ohio.
August 6, 2019
A car packed with explosives being driven to carry out a terror attack collided with other vehicles and exploded in central Cairo, killing at least 20 people.
August 6, 2019
US president Donald Trump denounced white supremacy yesterday as he addressed a nation reeling from two mass shootings that left more than 30 people dead, but blamed mental illness and...
August 6, 2019
Britain has formed a maritime coalition in the Persian Gulf with the US to protect international shipping amid growing tensions with Iran, the UK government announced last night.
August 6, 2019
It may have been three metres long - but a newly discovered dinosaur has been hiding in plain sight for three decades.
August 6, 2019
Turkish and American military officials have met in a bid to create a safe zone in northeastern Syria to address Ankara's concerns about US-allied Kurdish-led forces.
August 6, 2019
A six-year-old boy was in "critical but stable" condition after he was reportedly thrown from the 10th floor of London's Tate Modern art gallery.
August 6, 2019
Two more victims of the mass shooting at a crowded Walmart in El Paso died yesterday in hospital, raising the death toll for the attack to 22, and 31 in...
August 6, 2019
A masked prisoner dressed as a woman tried to break out of a Brazilian jail in a surreal act of derring-do, only to be thwarted on the cusp of freedom...
August 6, 2019
President Trump's vision to "make America great again" was not expected to include a litany of horrifying hate-fuelled violence yet it is becoming the leitmotif of his time in office.
August 6, 2019
Supermac's has been successful in gaining a landmark EU decision against McDonald's to partially cancel the 'Mc' trademark after the fast food giant claimed exclusivity over it.
August 6, 2019
Family and friends filled a Massachusetts church to pay their final respects to Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old grand-daughter of the late Robert Kennedy.
August 6, 2019
A 37-year-old Irishman has been remanded in custody after appearing in an English court in connection with 60 firearms being found in a car arriving in the United Kingdom from...
August 6, 2019
Supermac's has been successful in gaining a landmark EU decision against McDonald's to partially cancel the 'Mc' trademark after the fast food giant claimed exclusivity over it.
August 6, 2019
After stoking white nationalism, accusing a federal judge of being unfair because of his Mexican heritage, declaring there were some "very fine" people marching with neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, demonising refugees...
