British soccer fans tuning in on Saturday to watch Football Focus instead found a three-year-old episode of the antiques show Bargain Hunt, the unexpected result of an escalating furor involving the BBC, the UK government and the country’s best known sports presenter.
Fewer French people took to the streets for the seventh day of protests against the contentious pension reform of President Emmanuel Macron, even as a growing majority opposes the overhaul.
Deutsche Post AG secured a wage deal with the Verdi labor union covering 160,000 workers, raising salaries even as it expects profits to fall.
The Pentagon’s $170 billion procurement request for the new fiscal year focuses on replacing munitions supplied to Ukraine as well as well as weapons like long-range missiles, which would be necessary in a conflict with China, according to an internal budget document.
On Monday, the head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. warned a gathering of bankers in Washington about a $620 billion risk lurking in the US financial system.
The Biden administration has decided to authorize a mammoth ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska, despite arguments by opponents that it will exacerbate climate change, according to people familiar with the matter.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will hand business a three-year tax break worth about £11 billion by replacing the UK’s most generous ever investment allowance with a temporary measure in next week’s budget, according a government official with knowledge of the matter.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned voters that victory in May elections for the broadest-ever opposition alliance of his 20-year rule would be a catastrophe for the country.
An influenza outbreak in China picked up intensity over the past week as a major city prepared to enforce pandemic-style lockdowns to curb the surge in infections.
The British prime minister has made stopping small boats crossing the English Channel one of his five priorities. But members of his own party worry he’ll fail.
