Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty House is touted as possible saviour, but there are doubts as to whether it has resources to buy steelworks Sanjeev Gupta has met with the business secretary, Sajid Javid, to discuss a potential deal for Tata’s UK steel business. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters The Indian metals tycoon who has emerged as a potential saviour of Tata’s UK steel Read More

Last week my husband accused me — nicely, in the way that spouses do — of having gone on a little shopping spree in Torrance, California, at a retailer called Smart & Final. My defense: I’ve never been in a Smart & Final, and we live in North Carolina, more than 2,500 miles away from Torrance. I denied the accusation Read More

Stocks in Japan and China led gains on Monday, extending a rally on Wall Street which closed at its highest level so far this year on Friday. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 finished the session up 1.75% to 17,233.75 points. Investor sentiment in Japan was given a boost as official machinery orders data showed a 15% jump in January from December, beating Read More

Damaging cyberattacks on a global scale continue to surface every day. Some nations are better prepared than others to deal with online threats from criminals, terrorists and rogue nations. Data-mining experts from the University of Maryland and Virginia Tech recently co-authored a book that ranked the vulnerability of 44 nations to cyberattacks. Lead author V.S. Subrahmanian discussed this research on Read More

The watches are making exams a ‘nightmare to administer’, according to one deputy head Smartwatches that allow pupils and students to cheat in exams are being openly sold on Amazon. An advert for one such watch, which has 4GB of memory, was offered on the website for £44.95. “This watch is specifically designed for cheating in exams with a special Read More

Liberal leaning: Nicky Morgan in Leicester Andrew Fox The Secretary of State for Education may be the mother of a school-age child, but she’s rather more nuanced than the working mum cliche. In fact, Nicky Morgan is hard to pin down. One moment it’s all a bit Middle England – family finances, children’s rugby and the school run. The next Read More

A NINETEEN-year-old Melbourne woman may have to have skin grafts after what she said was a severe sunburn caused by faulty sunblock. Taryn Hawken, of Pakenham, who has multiple sclerosis, went to an event with her friends last month where she spent most of the day in the sun. Ms Hawken said she applied Banana Boat Sport SPF 30 sunblock Read More

An aid convoy of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent enters the Wafideen Camp, which is controlled by Syrian government forces, near a poster of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, to deliver aid into the rebel-held besieged Douma neighborhood of Damascus The Syrian opposition said on Friday the government was mobilising forces on many fronts despite an agreement to cease hostilities, and Read More

  Macedonian police fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants who stormed the border from Greece on Monday as a deeply divided Europe traded barbs over the biggest humanitarian crisis in decades. As frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans, migrants trapped on the Greece-Macedonia border tore down a metal gate in the barbed Read More