Macquarie has agreed to inject up to £1.2bn of fresh equity into Southern Water as part of a deal that will result in the debt owed to its holding company lenders being cut by more than half.

Foreign minister says Friday’s agreement has given ‘huge impetus’ for peace, but talks with M23 militia are critical ...

With its thriving innovation and digital ecosystems, the city-state is attracting global commodity traders to transform operations, services and products ...

Trump’s budget will have two dramatic impacts — one political, the other economic. The first is the damage to Trump’s blue-collar Maga brand. “BBB” — Republicans’ slavish adoption of Trump’s nickname ...

Also in today’s newsletter, the US dollar’s historic start to the year and the ‘choke points’ holding back Chinese industry ...

The US Senate has voted down a proposed 10-year ban on states regulating artificial intelligence models, ending a controversial plan supported by Big Tech companies. Senators voted by a margin of 99 ...

When West overcalled 2H — on a pretty thin hand — North’s only option in their system was to bid 3H. This indicated a raise ...

Reagan-era regulations blamed for fuelling state’s chronic housing shortage and homelessness crisis ...

Many — but not all — of the 21 drugs studied caused mutations and premature ageing in healthy blood, the researchers found. One three-year-old patient being treated for a nerve tissue cancer had more ...

The court suspended Paetongtarn effective from Tuesday after accepting a petition that alleged that she had violated ethical standards in a phone call with former Cambodian leader Hun Sen, in which ...

Tony Blair’s biggest rebellion in his first year involved 47 backbenchers, according to Philip Cowley, politics professor at Queen Mary University. Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds defended the ...

Renault is taking a €9.5bn loss on its stake in Nissan following a change in the way the French carmaker accounts for the holding in its struggling Japanese partner. Renault has been restructuring its ...