India's richest family has clinched a landmark deal to buy a 49% stake in the Oval Invincibles in a deal that will unite the London-based team with the ownership of the Indian Premier League's Mumbai Indians.

The communications regulator has proposed cutting letter deliveries with second-class post arriving every second day and no longer on Saturdays.

Plans to develop the UK's largest untapped oilfield have been frustrated in a major climate court case.

Marshmallow, the British insurance unicorn, is close to finalising a new capital injection valuing it at more than £1.5bn, despite the difficult funding environment facing many technology companies.

A small number of Coca-Cola, Sprite and Appletiser cans in the UK have been recalled.

Retailers have suffered unprecedented annual levels of shoplifting losses and incidents of violence and abuse against staff, according to industry data, although one major chain has told Sky News there are now signs of a fightback.

The average annual water bill will rise by 26% or £123 in the next financial year alone, according to industry figures covering England and Wales.

Shares in Microsoft have fallen sharply after investment spending came in higher than expected in its latest results, released just days after the DeepSeek market shock for tech stocks.

The chief executive of Europe's largest airline has put customers on notice it will prosecute disruptive passengers as between two and three flights a week are diverted due to poor behaviour on Ryanair flights.

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Rarely has a speech been so heavily trailed in the media, with so many of the details - from the third runway at Heathrow to the revived Oxford-Cambridge corridor and the nine new reservoirs across the country - pre-briefed and leaked to the press in advance.

Saga, the financial services and travel provider to the over-50s, is tapping one of the world's biggest investment firms as part of a refinancing aimed at relieving pressure on its balance sheet.

Lidl has been given approval by a High Court to open its first ever pub in Northern Ireland.

Lloyds Banking Group is to close a further 136 branches.

The government supports a third runway at Heathrow, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced.

Donald Trump is aggressively pushing forward with plans to shrink the US government by offering eight months' pay to federal employees who quit their jobs.

The Post Office has unveiled plans for scores more job cuts as part of a transformation plan aimed at boosting payouts for thousands of sub-postmasters.

Bidders for stakes in English cricket's eight Hundred franchises will this week begin taking part in live auctions enabling them to submit binding offers at 15-minute intervals, Sky News has learnt.

Rachel Reeves will unveil Labour's plans to grow the UK economy on Wednesday, warning it "will not come without a fight".

Based on the limited numbers of comparisons made so far, DeepSeek's AI models appear to be faster, smaller, and a whole lot cheaper than the best offerings from the supposed titans of AI like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.