In a 1977 children’s book by Raymond Briggs, what’s the one-word name of the eponymous main character whose job is scaring human beings? What’s the aboriginal name for the land sandstone monolith and ...

Mid-sized European businesses worried about red tape caught a break yesterday with news that most of them are set to be exempted from the EU’s new carbon border tax. EU tax commissioner Wopke Hoekstra ...

Is socialising the only way to fill in the information gaps left by a tenancy agreement? Currently in England the balance of personal knowledge favours landlords — but the renters’ rights bill promise ...

Singapore, Saudi Arabia and executives including Maverick Carter plot new global circuit to take on dominant US league ...

Accenture has scrapped its global diversity and inclusion goals after an “evaluation” of the US political landscape, becoming the latest big company to ditch its targets since the election of Donald ...

This erratic, piecemeal approach will not deliver lasting change. A brick-by-brick dismantling of a high-rise tower cannot shift regulatory cultures and practices. The first law of thermodynamics ...

Transport department has concerns about applications by private operators to compete with nationalised network ...

James Birch’s frank and funny memoir recalls the conceptual artists’ 1990 visits to China and the Soviet Union ...

Its ability to make money has been constrained by the fact that Amazon is both its largest customer and competitor ...

The sale is the chief executive’s latest move to slim down the group since joining last year from Spanish bank Santander. L&G sold its UK housebuilder Cala in a £1.4bn deal last year. Simões said on ...

The lost value each year amounts to at least $16bn — one per cent of annual investment gains or about $200 per retiree — the research found. Pension funds are aware of the problem but have been slow ...

My studio is only a 10-minute walk from the castle in which the Pendle witch trials happened in 1612 when men and women were ...