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UK and European Union negotiators are closing in on a resolution to end their long-running dispute over post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to strengthen anti-protest legislation, giving police additional powers to clamp down on demonstrations even before they’ve caused any disruption.

The divide between the richest and poorest families in the UK is being made worse by sky-high inflation and “unnecessary” tax breaks, a pair of think-tanks warned.

The UK’s rental housing market boom has hit the most deprived families disproportionately hard, according to an analysis of census data, in the latest example of why the country’s poorest are particularly suffering during the cost of living crisis.

Just Eat Takeaway.com NV is teaming up with UK supermarket operator J Sainsbury Plc to drop off groceries in under 30 minutes in the latest tie-up in the rapid-delivery space.

Business chiefs gathered in Davos are weighing new risks in a global economy where great-power politics loom large and governments are much readier to intervene

A pair of former fund managers from KKR & Co. and British International Investment Plc aim to raise as much as $250 million to invest in technology-focused startups in India, according to people familiar with the matter.

Australia’s dollar has powered ahead over the past three months and both technical and fundamental factors suggest the rally still has some way to run.

Hiroki Sawai, who raises 2,200 cattle at his ranch in western Japan, received an alert on his phone one evening last year: a calf had fallen and wasn’t getting up.

President Vladimir Putin said Russia’s economy is in better shape than expected. Iran, which has been supplying Moscow with attack drones for months, will take delivery of Russian fighter jets by March, an Iranian lawmaker said.