American zeal for ‘the Hamptons of England’ has rubbed off on sales with luxury British fashion house back to a full-year profit The luxury fashion brand Burberry has said a new £2,000 handbag named after the Cotswolds has boosted sales, as the English region becomes increasingly popular with wealthy Americans. Joshua Schulman, the boss of the British brand, said its tote bags – which mix leather and the signature Burberry check – had helped drive the company’s best performance in bag sales sinc
Angus Taylor to give budget reply speech tonight. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Good morning and welcome to our live politics blog. I’m Martin Farrer with the top overnight stories and then Nick Visser will take the helm (with Krishani Dhanji ready to take over this afternoon in the lead-up to tonight’s budget reply speech from Angus Taylor ). Anthony Albanese has denied that the additional 700,000 gen Z voters being added to the electoral
Merged insistutions, whose name has not yet been formally decided, will be second largest mainstream university in UK King’s College London has signed an agreement to merge with Cranfield University, creating a new UK “super-university” that would rival many of its international competitors in size and research output. The merger would result in KCL taking on another 5,000 mainly postgraduate students and become the second largest mainstream university in the UK, with about 47,000 students, over
Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Beijing on May 14, 2026 during an interview with NBC News.
Longtime U.S. diplomat Richard Haass interprets President Trump's meeting with China leader, Xi Jinping. He said though the two have different priorities the cordial summit could be a 'good sign.' (Image credit: Alex Wong)
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Shares in Spire Healthcare jump after approach from Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’ Business live – latest updates The board of Britain’s largest private hospital operator has backed a buyout proposal worth £1bn from its second-biggest shareholder, a hedge fund manager known as “the Rottweiler”, sending its shares soaring by nearly 50%. Spire Healthcare, which owns the Claremont hospital in Sheffield and St Anthony’s hospital in south London, said it had received a no
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Privilege being mistaken for competence as study reveals no evidence to suggest companies run by state-educated peers underperform Chief executives who attended private school are perceived as a “safer bet” by investors, according to a study, despite there being no evidence they perform or behave differently to their state-educated counterparts. Companies run by privately educated bosses tend to experience lower stock market volatility, even though there are no meaningful differences in their pe
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Eleven ambulances as well as two helicopters attended the scene, where one person was trapped under a bus At least seven people are seriously injured after a coach rolled on one of Australia’s most dangerous roads, leaving one person trapped beneath the vehicle. Emergency services were called to the intersection of the Bruce Highway and Rangemore Road at Gumlu in the Whitsundays region at about 4pm on Thursday after reports of a crash involving a bus with 29 people on board. Continue reading...
