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Hundreds of carers could face trial for benefits error
Calls for ministers to halt process that has left many claimants in debt
Time to loosen rules on banking, says Reeves
Rachel Reeves told bankers attending her Mansion House speech yesterday that regulations put in place to protect the economy after the global financial crisis had \"gone too far\".
Bentancur to get long ban over alleged racist remark
Tottenham are resigned to Rodrigo Bentancur being given a lengthy ban of at least six matches by the Football Association for making an allegedly racist remark about Son Heung-min.
Kane faces Carsley axe Shock as captain set to be left out for crunch Greece match
Harry Kane is set to be a shock omission from Lee Carsley's England team for tonight's must-win Nations League match against Greece in Athens.
Infantino to avoid scrutiny with virtual 2026 draw
Gianni Infantino will avoid any scrutiny of the controversial decision to give the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia next month after Fifa opted to stage the qualifying draw for the 2026 tournament as a virtual event.
Gordon heeds England's call as no-shows hinder Carsley
While a depleted side face tricky tests against Greece and Ireland, there will be big opportunities for some
Lawrence caps quick Chelsea comeback after Agnew's early strike
Chelsea's aspiration of claiming this season's Women's Champions League was hardly in danger as Murphy Agnew handed Celtic a shock lead.
Paul's big-money fight is a circus but the YouTuber is no clown
Despite the absurd persona, his business savvy and support of female fighters must be acknowledged
Tyson offers reminder of boxing's glory days before weary return
Former Baddest Man on the Planet is reflective but determined in open workout as he gears up for inglorious fight with YouTuber, reports
Lineker leaves second BBC presenting role
Gary Lineker has stepped down from his role as presenter of Sports Personality of the Year (Spoty), the BBC has confirmed.
Coe pulls no punches with his IOC pitch
Sebastian Coe has promised to introduce an \"uncompromising and clearcut\" policy to protect women's sport and to look into awarding prize money to all Olympic medallists if he is elected International Olympic Committee (IOC) president.
Slade vows 'not to shut up shop' against Springboks
England are looking to banish their autumn frustrations at South Africa's expense this Saturday and have vowed \"not to shut up shop\" against the reigning world champions.
Meeting of minds: Cricket societies keep faith during testing times for domestic game
\"Is this the right place for the cricket meeting?\" I enquire. \"It is,\" one of them replies. \"And I'm guessing by the fact you're half the age of anyone else coming tonight that you're the guest speaker.\"
'Salads don't win scrums' Nché is icing on the Boks' front-row cake
A member of South Africa's 'Bomb Squad', loosehead was crucial to World Cup win in 2023 and is a hero back home
Klarna to float in New York in another snub to London stock market
The buy now, pay later company Klarna has filed for a flotation in the US, a move that marks another blow for the London market.
Debt-stricken P&O Ferries spent £47m on mass sackings in 2022
P&O Ferries spent more than £47m on sacking hundreds of UK seafarers in 2022, according to its long-overdue accounts that will be published in the coming days.
Just Eat to sell US arm Grubhub for loss of more than $6.5bn
The food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway is selling Grubhub to the delivery-focused restaurant chain Wonder for $650m (£510m), only four years after buying the US app in a multibillion-dollar tie-up.
Reeves to lay out plans to merge pension pots of local authorities
Rachel Reeves will announce plans to merge local government retirement schemes into \"megafunds\" as she tries to revive long-running efforts to reform the public pension system.
Thames Water should explain its murky logic on fundraising
Congratulations to Thames Water: it is not going bust early in the new year. Probably.
Creditors back £3bn package designed to save Thames Water from collapse
Thames Water has gained support from its top-ranking creditors to proceed to the next stage of securing a £3bn emergency funding package intended to stave off its collapse for at least a year.
Thousands of jobs at risk as Homebase collapses into administration
The struggling DIY chain Homebase has collapsed into administration, leaving thousands of workers facing an uncertain future, despite the purchase of the bulk of its stores by the owner of the homeware retailer The Range.
Trump's win will hit offshore wind investment, firm warns
Donald Trump's election victory has increased the risks of investing in offshore wind projects, a German energy company has warned, even as a UK developer said his return to the White House could help bolster Britain's renewables sector.
Key measure of inflation in US rises for first time since March
A key measure of US inflation has risen for the first time since March, underlining its bumpy ride down to lower levels.
Darknet dealing Russia's click and collect drugs industry
At any one moment in towns and cities across Russia, thousands of drug packages lie buried in the ground, attached by magnets to lamp-posts or taped underneath window sills, waiting to be picked up by their intended customers.
Naval officer accused by Kyiv of war crimes killed in Crimea car bombing
A senior Russian naval officer was killed in a car bombing in Crimea yesterday, marking the latest in a series of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel and pro-Kremlin figures in occupied Ukrainian territory and inside Russia.
Macron to visit Notre Dame before cathedral's reopening
As firefighters doused the embers of the blaze that threatened to destroy Notre Dame Cathedral on 16 April 2019, Emmanuel Macron promised that the church would be restored and made \"more beautiful than ever\" within five years.
Schools shut and people evacuated as torrential rain returns to Spain
Authorities in eastern and southern Spain have closed schools and begun evacuating residents as the country was hit by further torrential rains two weeks after catastrophic floods killed at least 215 people and unleashed a bitter political blame game.
Swedish firm rebuked for using C-word in vaginal health advert
The Swedish advertising ombudsman has criticised a company for using the C-word in posters to promote vaginal nutritional supplements, saying the use of the \"gross profanity\" is offensive to consumers.
'I've lost everything Drought fuels hunger in southern Africa
Emmanuel Himoonga paced his dry field, picking up stalks of maize that had been bleached almost to bone white. The 61-year-old chief of Shakumbila, a mainly agricultural community of about 7,000 people roughly 70 miles west of Zambia's capital, Lusaka, had seen droughts before. But since 2010 they have been happening once every three to four years, instead of every five years.
Chinese ask questions over delayed reports of fatal attack
After a 63-year-old man rammed his car into a sports centre on Tuesday in Zhuhai, killing 35 people and severely injuring 43 others, questions have swirled on Chinese social media about why it took the authorities so long to reveal the details.