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While company reported positive cash flow and earnings of 41 cents a share, its missed its mark on reported revenueTesla reported its first-quarter earnings on Wednesday, disclosing better than expected results. The report slightly boosted the company's share price, which has limped along this year while its CEO, Elon Musk, has tried to sell the company's new vision of humanoid robots and self-driving robotaxis. Its core car business has struggled in the face of competition from Chinese counterparts and backlash against his close involvement with the Trump administration.“There remains significant effort and hard work to realize our mission of Amazing Abundance,” Tesla said in its report, while claiming that demand for its vehicles was rebounding. Continue reading......

Responding to an article by Nils Pratley, Simon Oldridge writes that the climate risk would outweigh paltry returns from new licensing, while Alex Chapman says Britain's projected demand is often overstated I was surprised to read Nils Pratley's recent column arguing for more North Sea gas (The UK needs more North Sea gas, not greater reliance on US imports, 14 April).Nils rightly questions reliance on costly and highly polluting imported US liquefied natural gas, but I think the analysis gives insufficient weight to the scale and immediacy of the climate and nature crisis. Continue reading......

Rising costs have continued to plague the company, now facing soaring fuel costs due to the war with IranSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe White House is finalizing a financing package to help ailing US budget carrier Spirit Airlines, which could receive as much as $500m in loans as rising costs continue to plague the company.News of the potential deal comes as Spirit and others struggle with soaring fuel costs due to the war with Iran. Continue reading......

Serious Fraud Office investigation relates to firms allegedly submitting false invoices for work they failed to carry outThe UK's Serious Fraud Office has arrested four people on suspicion of a home insulation scam that may have cost energy companies as much as £44m.The SFO and the National Crime Agency said on Wednesday the unnamed people were arrested in coordinated dawn raids across England on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. Continue reading......

Justin Sun alleges World Liberty Financial installed tools to prevent sale of his tokens after they became tradeableBillionaire crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Tuesday sued World Liberty Financial, the digital currency venture co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons, alleging that World Liberty illegally froze his holdings of tokens issued by the company.Sun, the largest investor in World Liberty, alleged in the lawsuit, filed in a federal court in California, that the company secretly installed tools to prevent the sale of his tokens after they became tradeable in September 2025. The lawsuit also alleges that World Liberty threatened to “burn” – or permanently delete – his holdings, even while they were in Sun's digital wallet. Continue reading......

Lawyers for oligarch claim freezing of £5.3bn of assets 'unfair and abusive' amid row over use of funds for Ukraine Roman Abramovich has gone to the European court of human rights (ECHR), claiming that a criminal investigation into his financial affairs by the Jersey authorities has breached his human rights, according to reports.The former owner of Chelsea FC, who is sanctioned in the UK over his links to Vladimir Putin, is under investigation in Jersey over allegations of corruption and money laundering. Continue reading......

Anthropic's decision to restrict access to its powerful new model increases fears about the advanced technologyAnthropic has ruled out releasing its latest AI model, Mythos, to the public because of the threat it poses to global cybersecurity.However, the US tech startup behind the Claude chatbot confirmed on Wednesday it was investigating a report that a group of people had gained unauthorised access to Mythos. The alleged incident has raised concerns over the pace of development and the ability of tech companies to keep their riskiest products out of the public domain. Here, we examine Mythos and its potential impact. Continue reading......

In feat hailed as milestone in robotics, Sony AI's Ace wins three out of five matches played under official rulesAn AI-powered robot has beaten elite players at table tennis in a landmark achievement for a machine faced with human athletes in a real-world competitive sport.Named Ace, the robotic system developed by Sony AI, won three out of five matches against elite players, but lost the two it played against professionals, clawing back only one game in the seven contests. Continue reading......

Survey by global economic forum shows 'tax wedge' in Britain increased to 32.4% of income in 2025Business live – latest updatesTaxes on workers in Britain rose at the fastest rate among the world's richest economies last year, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.With Labour under pressure on the economy amid the Iran war, the OECD said a key measure of the total tax paid by workers and their employers rose by the most in the 38-member club of rich nations in 2025. Continue reading......

A string of violent incidents, including shootings and trucks set on fire, has been linked to Toronto's towing industryWhen Cameron moved his family to a suburb north of Toronto last year, neighbours told him it one of the safest streets in the area. The roads were lined with cream-brick houses and manicured lawns. In summer, kids played between driveways; in winter, they dug tunnels through snowbanks.But any hope of a peaceful life on Allison Ann Way was shattered when a house across the street was shot at four times in five months. The most recent attack came in early February, as Cameron was leaving for work. Moments after his children had headed out for school, gunfire tore into the neighbour's garage and a dark SUV sped off. Continue reading......

Brussels will relax state aid rules to allow member countries to offer 'targeted and temporary' supportEurope live – latest updatesThe EU will cut electricity taxes and provide consumers with fresh incentives to ditch fuel-burning cars and boilers, the European Commission has announced, as the energy crisis from the Iran war speeds a shift to a clean economy.The plan, which foresees tweaking rules so that electricity is taxed less than oil and gas, aims to bring down bills while encouraging the move away from polluting devices that prolong reliance on foreign fuels. Continue reading......

Budget airline says change will take effect from November and will give passengers more time to get through airportsRyanair will close airport check-in desks 20 minutes earlier to avoid passengers missing flights, it has announced, amid concern over border queues in Europe.The budget airline, which carries 200 million passengers annually, will require all passengers dropping bags or checking in at the airport to do so one hour before take-off rather than the current 40-minute deadline. Continue reading......

FAA investigates event of one jet flying too close to another, though both crews responded to alerts and landed safelyThe US Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday it was investigating a close call ​at New York's John F Kennedy international airport ‌between two passenger jets.“The crew of Republic Airways Flight 4464 performed a go-around at John F Kennedy International Airport after missing the ​intended approach path and flying too close to ​Jazz Aviation Flight 554, which was cleared to ⁠land on a parallel runway. Both flight crews responded ​to onboard alerts,” the FAA said in a statement about ​the Monday incident. Continue reading......

The reckless Iran war shows up for most Americans as a number at a gas pump, not as images or moral reckoningThe airport in Las Vegas last Friday afternoon was what you might expect for a WrestleMania weekend. Packed terminal. Delays stacking up. Nobody going anywhere. Then we heard why.Air Force One was on the ground. Everything stopped. No one was taking off until the president finished doing his business. Continue reading......

As rising gold prices fuel environmental destruction, communities in the country's biodiverse heartland are passing laws against mining Mahogany trees tower above Herminio Mamani as he tends his cacao farm in Bolivia's biodiverse north-west. A former president of El Ceibo, the country's largest organic cacao co-operative, he says the agroforestry model used by its 1,300 members is vital not only to maintain the quality of the cacao they produce, but also for keeping gold mining at bay.“We cacao producers would never kill an animal here,” he says, parrots squawking nearby. “The parcels [of land] can never be monocultures – all the crops grow together.” Continue reading......

Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to riseExtreme heat is threatening the world's food systems, with farmers unable to work outside, livestock experiencing stress and crop yields falling, putting the livelihoods of more than a billion people in peril, the UN has warned.Experts said food supply in some areas was being “pushed to the brink” by increasingly common and severe heatwaves, on land and at sea, in a major report written jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Continue reading......

Real Madrid star buys 1.2% of Hundred franchise'I love cricket so I'm so happy to be on board'Jude Bellingham has explained his decision to buy a minority stake in The Hundred franchise Birmingham Phoenix, saying: “I feel like I owe the city something”.The England and Real Madrid star has taken a 1.2% holding in the Edgbaston-based Hundred franchise, revealing himself as the unnamed investor who had been mentioned in the annual accounts of the parent club, Warwickshire. Continue reading......

Prominent Maga bros have suggested the 20-year-old son of the US president should be called up this year. Why does this seem so vanishingly unlikely?It can't be easy being the youngest son of a man who compares himself to the son of God. Rather a lot to live up to, isn't there? Still, Barron Trump seems to be taking it in his stride. Rather than rebelling and becoming a socialist, the 20-year-old is shaping up to be just like dad: Barron is already worth $150m, according to a 2025 Forbes calculation. That's largely from World Liberty Financial, a Trump family cryptocurrency company he co-founded. (Reportedly it's Barron who got the president into crypto.)Barron isn't just trading alt-coins. The university student has also launched a yerba mate brand called Sollos. (Yerba mate is a caffeinated herbal tea from South America). And he's been engaged with politics behind the scenes. Barron is widely credited for boosting his dad's most recent election campaign by connecting him to manosphere influencers...

Firm had to repatriate almost 12,000 guests and staff, including from two cruise ships in Abu Dhabi and DohaThe Iran war has cost the travel company Tui €40m (£34.7m) so far, including repatriating almost 12,000 holidaymakers and staff, and forced it to cut its profit forecast for this year.Europe's biggest holiday operator said that it had taken the hit in March owing to the impact of the conflict in the Middle East, as it was forced to bring home 5,000 guests from two cruise ships anchored in ports in Abu Dhabi and Doha. Continue reading......

Workers and labor advocates say the company's injury rates and how it treats injured staff remain a problemAmazon, one of the world's largest employers, has for years faced scrutiny over its safety record. When Billy Foister, a 48-year-old worker, died after a heart attack inside one of the tech giant's warehouses in September 2019, managers were accused of telling staff to “get back to work”.When another worker died this month at a distribution center in Troutdale, Oregon, an Amazon spokesperson claimed they had collapsed from an “existing medical issue”. They denied a report that a nearby employee was told: “Please get back to work.” Continue reading......