More people getting into debt due to household bills, charity says

Releasing 300 million barrels of oil will not address all issues. As powerful as the G7 is, China, India, and South Korea remain the key customers for physical supply of Gulf oil and gas. As such, gas tankers from the US that had been bound for Europe are now doing Atlantic U-turns and heading for…

Jacob Panons & Joshua AskewSouth East Getty Images South East Water is set to operate bottled water stations again on Thursday Regulator Ofwat has opened an investigation into South East Water after repeated water supply failures across Kent and Sussex. Some 30,000 properties had no water at the height of the problems, with thousands still…

BBC Listen to Laura read this article If you say the name Donald Trump in the halls of wholesale markets and trade fairs in China, you’ll hear a faint chuckle. The US president and his 145% tariffs have not instilled fear in many Chinese traders. Instead, they have inspired an army of online Chinese nationalists…

Rodney Benson, a media professor at New York University, called the deal “concerning”, would leave America’s largest media companies further concentrated in the hands of conservatives. Many of those owners, including the Ellison family, have separate, non news-related business interests that depend on government contracts or regulation and are therefore particularly vulnerable to pressure, he…

It is a challenge, acknowledges Manuel Moussallum, Deezer’s head of research, but the company’s detection technology has so far maintained a low false positive rate, he says, and research to better understand hybrid cases, where AI is only partially used, is ongoing.