Union Pacific Railroad is in early-stage talks with rival Norfolk Southern for a nearly $200bn merger that would create a transcontinental US railroad giant, according to people familiar with the ...

The $190bn manager of the University of California’s endowment and pension has divested from hedge funds as its chief investment officer lambasted the asset class for failing to provide adequate risk ...

COP30 President André Corrêa do Lago’s recent defence of Petrobras’s​ oil expansion (“Brazil’s UN climate talks chief defends oil expansion by state-controlled Petrobras”, Report, July 7) ignores ...

Sir Wyn Williams’ preliminary report into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal (Report, July 9) has revealed that at least 13 people were driven to suicide by the oppressive and erroneous prosecutions ...

From Sarang Shidore, Director, Global South Program, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Washington DC, US ...

Viewed through that lens, strategic restraint is not weakness but rationality.

AI is the bubble in the economy — it is devouring resources for data centres (expected to be close to a third of Irish electricity by 2026), mines our data and copyright rights are trampled aside by ...

In any case, the BBC’s programmes, for those who choose them, could easily be funded today by direct payments or from advertising revenue.

Cyber crime isn’t limited to well-funded, organised threat actors: it’s accessible to nearly anybody, it’s lucrative, learnable, and it’s spreading fast. Organisations must evolve their strategies and ...

Robert Shrimsley blames “tax-resistant voters” for Britain’s fiscal mess while arguing that public services have been “hollowed out” and that welfare payments are not “overly generous” (“Britain is ...

The headline could have been, “UK saves 18,500 Afghans from torture or death.” ...

The move marks a departure from the regime of former chair Lina Khan and former president Joe Biden’s tougher antitrust ...