Business

By any measure, Dr. Ha T. Hatley has built her career with intention. From her early life as an immigrant to her work today in telehealth and obesity medicine, her path reflects steady leadership, discipline, and a clear view of where healthcare is going. Early Life and the Discipline to Start Over Dr. Ha Hatley’s story begins outside the U.S. She was born and raised in Vietnam. At 17, she immigrated to the United States....

Irish online betting platforms are at a crossroads. Ireland is attempting to introduce new legislation that will help to tighten up the industry, while also ensuring that they do not over-regulate to the point where the industry’s creativity is stifled. The purpose of regulation Many people seem to believe that laws related to a live casino in Ireland are designed to stifle innovation in the business. The laws are fixed rules that an online betting...

Cleaning used to be simple. Grab a vacuum, chase the crumbs, call it a day. In 2025, that sounds almost quaint. Homes get busier, floors get messier, and patience runs out fast. Dust shows up quicker in open-plan spaces. Pet hair clings to rugs like it pays rent. Kitchen floors pick up that thin film from cooking and foot traffic, even when there wasn’t a “spill”. Brands clocked the mood. They stopped obsessing over one...

Gold and silver prices surged to fresh record highs after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose new tariffs on a group of European countries opposing his proposed takeover of Greenland, triggering a renewed rush into safe-haven assets. Gold climbed to a peak of $4,689.39 (£3,499) an ounce on Monday, while silver touched $94.08 an ounce, as investors sought protection from escalating geopolitical and trade tensions. Precious metals are traditionally viewed as a store of...

Elon Musk has launched a $134 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming both companies unjustly profited from his early backing of the artificial intelligence pioneer and abandoned its founding mission. In a federal court filing on Friday, lawyers for Elon Musk said OpenAI gained between $65.5 billion and $109.4 billion as a result of Musk’s initial funding, reputation and strategic input after he co-founded the organisation in 2015. Microsoft, which owns an estimated 27...

A pilot of live facial recognition technology in south London has helped cut crime and led to more than 100 arrests, according to the Metropolitan Police, as the force prepares to defend its use of the technology in the High Court. The three-month trial in Croydon, which began in October, marked the first time the Met has deployed fixed live facial recognition (LFR) cameras mounted on street furniture rather than using mobile vans. Fifteen cameras...

Fresh from his nerve-shredding run on BBC hit The Traitors, Brian Davidson has swapped the infamous roundtable for the photographer’s studio, and the move has paid off handsomely. Davidson, a professional photographer and owner of Glasgow-based Studio Snap, is celebrating his strongest trading year to date, with revenues up more than 70 per cent in 2025. The surge follows his memorable appearance on series two of The Traitors, which turned him into a familiar face...

Rachel Reeves is opening up Britain’s corporate bond market to small investors as part of a wider push to channel more household savings into UK businesses and revive London’s capital markets. The chancellor will on Monday launch a government-backed initiative designed to make corporate bonds accessible to retail investors for the first time in years, scrapping barriers that had effectively restricted the market to institutions and wealthy individuals. Under the new rules, individuals will be...

UK employers are being forced to reassess their healthcare and benefits strategies as demand for weight-management drugs surges among employees, according to new research. More than a quarter of UK workers have already used a weight-management drug such as Ozempic, while two in five believe their employer should fund access to these treatments through workplace healthcare plans. As a result, 44 per cent of employers say they are now reviewing, or fundamentally redesigning, their healthcare...

Rachel Reeves is preparing to channel tens of millions of pounds of public money into a British self-driving technology company as Labour moves to accelerate the rollout of autonomous vehicles on UK roads. The £28bn National Wealth Fund (NWF), backed by the Treasury, is understood to be close to agreeing a major investment in Oxa, the Oxford-founded driverless vehicle start-up previously known as Oxbotica. The business was established in 2014 by Oxford University academic Professor...