Los Angeles has agreed to step aside for four years in its pursuit of staging the Olympics the world’s largest sporting event, handing Paris the 2024 games. On Monday, the bid team… Read More

Donald Trump has removed Anthony Scaramucci from the role of White House communications director just 10 days after naming the former hedge fund executive to the job. Mr Scaramucci’s short tenure was… Read More

There are not many agents in the Federal Bureau of Investigation like Ed You. In a workforce that cultivates anonymity, his clean-shaven head gleams. While most of his colleagues are notoriously tight-lipped,… Read More

Protesters gather near a Cuadrilla gas fracking site given the green light near Blackpool © Getty Ineos has won a High Court injunction against unlawful protests at its UK shale gas sites… Read More

Donald Trump’s ambitions on tax reform, regulation and government spending have pushed Wall Street stocks higher The Trump administration’s hopes of achieving tax reform this year are already being questioned by current… Read More

It has been a long, hard slog for Douglas Flint and Stuart Gulliver since they took over as chairman and chief executive of HSBC respectively at the end of 2010. Yet their… Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – A British Royal Marine was jailed for 18 years on Monday after admitting that he worked as a bomb maker for dissident Irish Republican groups that violently oppose Northern… Read More

Spotify has been in tough negotiations with big record labels to improve the challenging economics of music streaming © Reuters Spotify has reached 60m paying customers, say people familiar with the matter,… Read More

BAE Systems has lost a legal appeal to reduce a £360,000 compensation payout to a former secretary over a “single sexist comment” at work. The defence company argued that the award to… Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – A British man was convicted on Monday of importing a lifelike child sex doll in what police said was a landmark case in the fight against a new form… Read More