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A 26-year-old man has been charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare's CEO Brian Thompson.

Bankers are to review state spending as part of a push to bring the private sector "into the heart of government".

Sir Keir Starmer has said UK economic growth was his "number one mission" as he defended his trip to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

An attempt by Rupert Murdoch to change who controls the future of his media empire has been blocked, according to US media reports.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said she is "overwhelmed" by the response to the UK's first attendance at an EU finance ministers' meeting since Brexit.

The entrepreneur Dale Vince has made a fresh approach to the owner of The Guardian in a bid to persuade it to open talks with him about The Observer, days after its sale was agreed to a digital start-up.

Audiences in the UK and Ireland will be able to continue viewing popular American shows after Sky extended and expanded its deal with Warner Bros. Discovery bringing HBO programming to screens outside the US.

Property developers will be able to bypass planning committees under new government plans to "overhaul" the process.

The government has called on "disruptors, innovators and creative thinkers" to help make the civil service more productive.

The former minister who was asked by the last chancellor to help turbocharge inward investment into the UK is being lined up as the next chairman of Britain's most influential manufacturing industry trade body.

Demand for new staff among businesses slumped to levels seen in 2020 in the wake of last month's budget, according to a survey of major recruitment consultants.

The north of England will directly benefit from closer trade ties with Saudi Arabia, the prime minister has said as he visits the country.

Police divers are combing through underwater areas of New York's Central Park in the hunt for evidence about the killer of a healthcare boss.

A London-listed marketing specialist backed by Lord Ashcroft, the former Conservative Party treasurer, will this week announce the purchase of a key digital partner to sporting properties including the Men's T20 Cricket World Cup.

Harland & Wolff (H&W), the shipyard-owner which built the Titanic, is closing on a government-backed rescue deal with a Spanish shipping industry group.

TikTok has lost an appeal against plans to ban the video-sharing app in the US.

Fourteen new trains are to be built at a Hitachi plant in County Durham, securing hundreds of jobs.

Dale Vince, the activist and entrepreneur, has accused the owners of The Guardian of telling "a complete untruth" about his interest in taking control of The Observer.

A music-streaming service whose shareholders include the U2 bassist Adam Clayton and the financier Guy Hands is closing in on a solvent restructuring that will pave the way for it to launch a string of new interactive TV channels in the US.

The owner of The Guardian is pressing ahead with the sale of the world's oldest Sunday newspaper to a fledgling digital media company, just hours after scores of journalists went on strike in protest at the deal.