Edward Johnson

Harland & Wolff, the Belfast-based shipbuilder that produced the Titanic, has collapsed into administration. The company has appointed administrators from Teneo to oversee the process after failing to find new funding to stay afloat. So far only the parent company, Harland & Wolff Group Holdings plc, is in administration, and its shipyard subsidiaries are continuing … Read more

We’ve had South Korean pop, film, fashion and food, and now the latest trend is K-beauty, with sales of Korean skincare brands taking off in the UK as consumers are seduced by products that promise to conjure a radiant complexion. Britons are cutting back in other areas, but they are still chasing what the beauty … Read more

A restaurant in London’s Chinatown once called the capital’s rudest has been fined more than £40,000 after mice and cockroaches were found in its kitchen. Wong Kei, which has traded on Wardour Street for decades and was “once famous for its impersonal level of service”, as the online guide to Chinatown puts it, was prosecuted … Read more

(NewsNation) —  In light of cooling inflation, the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point — and another drop could come as price pressures continue to ease. Housing costs are following suit: Mortgage rates are falling, and Zumper‘s national rent index shows that the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment went … Read more

A deal backed by leaders on both sides of Libya’s political divide to appoint a new central bank governor has the potential “to resolve all the political issues” in the country, Libya’s head of state has said. Mohamed al-Menfi, the president of Libya’s Presidential Council who is largely aligned with the UN-recognised government in Tripoli, … Read more