Shares in the owner of the Daily Mirror rose more than a quarter after the publisher said it expects to beat annual profit expectations, after a strong end to the year and the benefit of deep cost-cutting in recent years. Reach, which owns national papers including the Mirror and Express and scores of local titles…
Changing habits and the gloomy state of the world are taking the fizz out of French champagne sales, the producers’ association has said, with shipments down nearly 10% last year. Consumers in crucial markets such as the US and home country France cut down on the luxury beverage, as economic and political anxiety dampened the…
The former boss of M&S and Asda has said working from home has meant a generation of people is “not doing proper work”. Stuart Rose, who was chief executive of M&S for six years until 2011 and then executive chair of its supermarket rival Asda until November, claimed that working from home had harmed employee…
The family and friends of a woman allegedly set on fire by a man accused of trying to murder her say they have been left numb and traumatised. Destiny Otton-Rakuraku, a 34-year-old support worker and mother-of-two, remains in hospital with serious injuries after the alleged attack on Saturday. “I’m devastated … just numbness,” Otton-Rakuraku’s mother…
A Myanmar junta airstrike has killed 28 people, including children, and wounded 25 at a temporary detention area in western Rakhine state, an ethnic minority armed group has said. The Arakan Army (AA) is engaged in a fierce fight with the military for control of Rakhine, where it has seized swaths of territory in the…
One of the most important takeaways from last week’s high court ruling declaring the government consultation on reform of incapacity benefits to be unlawful was the clarity with which it highlighted the failure of Conservative ministers to be honest about why they wanted the changes, and who will lose out as a result. The ruling…
Nelly has defended his decision to perform at US president Donald Trump’s inauguration ball after a backlash, saying it is “an honour for me to perform for the president of the United States, regardless of who is in office”. The Hot in Herre singer is booked to perform alongside country singer Jason Aldean and the…
Two of Australia’s richest people, Gina Rinehart and Anthony Pratt, have taken out newspaper ads in the US declaring their unswerving affection for the president-elect, Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated on Monday. Pratt’s full-page ad for Trump in the New York Times. Photograph: X Pratt’s advertisement in Sunday’s New York Times featured a map…
Australia’s 47 billionaires take home an average of A$67,000 an hour, over 1,300 times more than the average Australian, new Oxfam analysis reveals, as the anti-poverty organisation calls for the major parties to tax the fortunes of the super-rich to tackle inequality. Using data from Forbes’ real-time billionaires list – which categorises billionaires in US…
President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s. Also receiving pardons were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention. Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden…
