Diane Ackerman

BBC local radio stations could be left with just a handful of programmes specific to their area under proposals set to be announced this week.A fresh round of BBC cuts is due to be announced on Monday, with sources telling the Guardian it…

The United Nations, Nato, European Union and US have all urged Russia to reverse its decision to pull out of a deal that allowed Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea, amid fears of a global food crisis.Moscow announced it was…

, and are three stocks that Sumeet Bagadia, Executive Director, Choice Broking, says would be on the top of his radar for the week. “One can initiate a long position in at CMP Rs 2,526. Keep a stop loss at Rs 2,450 for a target price of…

Planned strikes by Royal Mail workers in the next two weeks have been called off after a challenge by the company.Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) are involved in a long-running dispute over pay and conditions. A series of…

MUMBAI: Investors bought shares of Reliance Industries, which maintains the largest weightage in the index, and foreign institutional investors became active once again. As a result, the major index Sensex also touched the crucial…

Cities in central China hastily drew up plans to isolate migrant workers fleeing to their hometowns from a vast assembly facility of iPhone maker Foxconn in COVID-hit Zhengzhou city, fearing the returnees may trigger coronavirus outbreaks.…

Harrods more than doubled the pay of managing director, Michael Ward, last year to £2.3m, even as the company collected almost £6m in government support under the furlough scheme.Ward, understood to be the highest paid director at the…

Last Tuesday Rishi Sunak stood behind a lectern outside Downing Street and issued a grave warning. The country, he said, was in the midst of a profound economic crisis, which would mean “difficult decisions to come”. But lest anyone worry…

“Everything will be reviewed” as the government considers ways to cut spending and plug a budget black hole, the levelling up minister has said, naming the HS2 high speed rail project and Liz Truss’s investment zones as possible candidates…

A tweet from the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb caught my eye last week. Amid the merry-go-round of prime ministers, he told us all to “stop complaining about the turnover in Britain”. It caught my eye partly because I’d done some complaining…