More than 22 million people, many of them children, could die preventable deaths by 2030 due to aid cuts by the United States and European countries, new research said Monday.

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as shares fall across Asia and bitcoin hits a seven-month low Britain’s stock market has opened in the red, as the sell-off in global markets reaches Europe. The blue-chip FTSE 100 share index has dropped by 101 points, or just over 1%, to 9,675 points, further away from the record high of 9,930 points set last week. “We are committed to ending the scandal of ticket touts.” Reselling tickets for profit is to be outlawed under plans due to be announced this week, the Guardian has learned, as the government goes ahead with a long-awaited crackdown on touts and resale platforms such as Viagogo and StubHub. Ministers had been considering allowing touts – and ordinary consumers – to sell on a ticket for up to 30% above the original face value, as part of a consultation process that ended earlier this year. Continue reading...

US company that defends millions of websites against malicious attacks suffers unidentified problem A key piece of the internet’s usually hidden infrastructure suffered a global outage on Monday, causing error messages to flash up across websites. Cloudflare, a US company whose services include defending millions of websites against malicious attacks, suffered an unidentified problem on Tuesday, which meant internet users could not access some customers’ websites. Continue reading...

Hallitus aikoo kiristää joitakin veroja ensi viikon kehysriihessä. Samalla monilta on jäänyt huomaamatta, että verotus on ollut jo vuosia laskevassa trendissä.

10 vuotta sitten Pariisin ilmastosopimus loi vahvaa toivoa. Nyt maailma on kuitenkin matkalla kohti jopa 2,5 asteen lämpenemistä, mikä uhkaa tehdä planeetastamme elinkelvottoman.

Samaan aikaan kun Hämeenlinnan kaupunkirakennelautakunta äänesti Evon uuden osayleiskaavaluonnoksen hyväksymisestä, Metsähallituksen Metsätalous oy reuhasi Evon Kalliojärvellä kuin mökkikaava olisi jo...

Valtion omistajaohjaus ohjeisti viime vuonna valtioenemmistöisiä yhtiöitä verojen maakohtaiseen raportointiin. Metso Oyj:n entinen talousjohtaja Reijo Kostiainen moittii ohjetta lepsuksi.

Virallinen päätös alijäämämenettelyyn joutumisesta tulee ensi viikolla.

Today I travel half-way across the country to a family funeral at a village I haven’t visited since childhood.

Virallinen päätös alijäämämenettelyyn joutumisesta tulee ensi viikolla.

The European Union has its own mutual defence clause but it is seen as weaker than NATO's Article 5. The EU Commissioner for Defence appears to want to change that as the US military reconsiders its f...

Meanwhile, Poland's defence chief Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that the army would examine 120 kilometres of the Warsaw-Lublin-Hrubieszów line, which links the capital to Ukraine by rail and road.