Business
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The US retail industry is hemorrhaging jobs – and it's hitting women hardestAs the retail landscape undergoes a dramatic transformation, analysis finds 129,000 women lost jobs last year while men actually gained positions -
Trump-Trudeau love-in threatened as Canada attacks US over tradeAfter months of trying to get Trump on side, Canada ‘drops the gloves’ by filing trade complaint – but will the decision merely inflame economic tensions?
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Facebook overhauls News Feed in favor of 'meaningful social interactions'Refresh of the News Feed algorithm will de-prioritize content shared by media and businesses in favor of that produced by friends and family, Zuckerberg says
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In depth
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Why federal cannabis crackdown may be a blessing in disguise for legal weedDon’t panic, legalization advocates say: Jeff Sessions’ anti-marijuana policy will have little practical impact and may even hasten the formal end of prohibition
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Dementia is too big a problem to walk away from – for Pfizer or any of usThe financial and social costs of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s are devastating. It’s essential that big pharma be part of the effort to end them, says Bart De Strooper, director of the UK Dementia Research Institute
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CES 2018: less 'whoa', more 'no!' – tech fails to learn from its mistakes at annual pageantFrom finicky robots to a not-so-smart suitcase, this year’s Consumer Electronics Show found an industry out of touch with the problems it really needs to solve
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One of the most influential commentators in the US now recognises that white working-class voters have shifted en masse to the RepublicansPaul Krugman got the working class wrong. That had consequences
Around the world
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Greece strikes cause transport chaos and healthcare delaysPolice fire teargas as demonstrators protest against planned changes to industrial action law demanded by creditors
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Sterling surges against dollar as Spain and Netherlands back soft BrexitFinance ministers from both countries reportedly keen to maintain the closest possible ties with EU and Britain
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Food firm Princes linked to inquiry into worker abuses in Italy's tomato fieldsBritish company uses supplier currently under investigation for exploiting migrant workers who pick fruit sold in UK and European supermarkets
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Head of Angola's wealth fund fired after Paradise Papers revelationsLeaked files showed José Filomeno Dos Santos appointed friend’s firm to manage fund, who then invested in own ventures
Featured topics
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Millennial financeMillennial financeGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in the town I grew up inFor years I hated my neighbourhood and wanted to live in ‘proper London’, and now I can only dream of a house in Dagenham
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Income inequalityIncome inequalityInequality is under attack - but what should equality really look like?In 2017 inequality was highlighted like never before. Now we need to open our political imaginations to determine what a more equal world really is
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Tencent, the $500bn Chinese tech firm you may never have heard of