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BP has reported a 16% drop in annual profits following the slump in wholesale oil prices towards the end of 2025.

Instagram and YouTube have been accused of "engineer[ing] addiction in children's brains", in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA.

The jewellery tycoon, alleged to have orchestrated a £170m scam which defrauded a legion of wealthy investors, will be declared bankrupt if a bid by his former company's liquidators is successful.

When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness - including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test.

With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision?

Eighteen-year-olds will soon be permitted to drive trains, the government has said, following concerns about the number of drivers approaching retirement.

Christian Horner, the former Red Bull Racing chief, is in talks with institutional investors including a former backer of McLaren Racing about the acquisition of a stake in Alpine, the French Formula One team.

Social media is on trial in Los Angeles. What happens next could change the way they operate.

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A technology business which provides a wide range of services to the insurance industry will this week announce a major funding injection jointly led by one of the co-founders of Zilch, the leading British fintech.