Paul Marchant, the chief executive of Primark, has resigned “with immediate effect” from his role leading the discount clothing retailer after an allegation about his behavior, the company announced Monday.Mr.…
The question posed to Wen Han, founder of the electric truck maker Windrose Technology, was a simple one: Is it accurate to call the firm a Chinese company?After some rambling,…
In recent weeks, managers of the nation’s resorts, plant nurseries, fish processors and racetracks started getting very worried.The Trump administration had yet to release a batch of H-2B visas —…
Ahead of President Trump’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs across the globe this week, his administration is weighing a new round of emergency aid to farmers, who are likely to…
Army food has been vexing and perplexing the soldiers who have to eat it for about as long as there’s been an Army. An age-old marching song describes a biscuit…
Child benefit payments increase by 1.7% on 7 April.More families have been able to claim child benefits after the limit on earnings was raised.Who gets child benefit?Only one person can…
In Washington, President Trump has said he is willing to meet with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader.In Beijing, Chinese officials and experts agree that a meeting between the heads of…
Richard Carlson, who won a Peabody Award for his investigative television reports about an automobile company’s brazen fraud — during which he also outed the company’s founder as a transgender…
Gas and electricity bills are increasing again for millions of households on 1 April, when the latest energy price cap takes effect. The annual bill for a household using a…
In the past few months, some of the largest banks and asset managers in the United States have quit net zero networks, the climate groups that encourage their members to…
Mitchell LabiakBusiness reporter, BBC NewsThames Water has picked US private equity giant KKR as its "preferred partner" to buy the troubled water utility firm.The planned investment by KKR would help…
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s election campaign had brought him to the bridge between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, over which $300 million worth of auto parts cross daily.Follow live…