One of Rachel Reeves' first moves on becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer was to give greater power to Britain's budget watchdog. Little more than a year later, prominent members of her own Labour Party want to curtail it.
Keir Starmer has six months to prove his mettle to his party amid swirling doubts within the governing Labour Party that he can reverse plunging public confidence in his UK administration.
Electricite de France SA is seeking to convince France's largest construction firms to work together on new nuclear reactors as the state-owned utility tries to contain project costs.
Airlines across the world canceled hundreds of flights and scrambled to adjust schedules, as a major Airbus SE software glitch threatened to derail a crucial holiday travel season.
Sergey Brin gave away more than $1.1 billion worth of Alphabet Inc. stock this week, with most of the money going to a nonprofit the Google co-founder created.
Northwestern University has reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding and close all pending federal investigations, while paying the government $75 million over three years.
Regulators in Puerto Rico tentatively approved a contentious deal with billionaire Wes Edens' New Fortress Energy Inc. to supply liquefied natural gas to the US territory.
President Donald Trump said he plans to pardon a former president of Honduras who's serving a decades-long US sentence for cocaine trafficking, two days before the nation's election.
Investor hype over Chinese robotics stocks is giving way to deepening unease, with the latest government warning against a potential bubble bringing fresh scrutiny to the sector's lofty valuations.
