Signed 2014 contract shows former Barclays boss would be paid $250,000 a year for role

Slimming the world is a slow business

Big Tech group’s AI chief predicts white-collar work could be automated within 18 months

Poll for Munich Security Conference shows sharp rise in Canadians and others perceiving peril from Washington

Cabinet secretary Chris Wormald’s exit follows resignations of prime minister’s chief of staff and communications director

Big Four firm set to be replaced by PwC on lucrative contract after compliance error

Dealmakers and lenders are facing a ‘Darwinian moment’ as digital services risk being made obsolete by new technologies

Beijing targets shipping routes and resources in far north

Takaichi is telling a country now encouraged to believe in its strengths to lean in to its true challenges

Chris Wright says Washington will not provide security or financial guarantees despite oil executives’ concerns

Ministers, advisers and officials will see their communications about former peer’s appointment as UK ambassador released

President expected to veto measure in which six Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke trade war on ally

Billionaire tells staff he wants ‘self-sustaining city on the moon’ before going to Mars

Move follows months of pushing users to state-controlled app

Jim Ratcliffe says Flemish government’s decision to suspend licence of flagship chemical site pushed costs up by a quarter

Ineos founder also says prime minister needs to get the country ‘back on track’

US president backs talks with Tehran while building up military presence in the Middle East

US attorney-general defends Trump administration’s release of documents and immigration enforcement

Investors fret stock exchange group is exposed to technological revolution but activist thinks otherwise

UK chancellor says Britain prepared to align with Brussels’ rules to try to boost trade with the bloc

Met Office says ‘strong and unusually southerly jet stream’ to blame for weeks of heavy rain

Getting one’s laboratories to do the hard work is a durable recipe for success

Opposition party says redesign would help close ‘yawning gap’ between London and rest of UK

Move comes during period of sustained volatility in digital asset markets