Big tech is being taken to task by lawmakers across the world. (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News_Subscribe) Accused of exposing children to harm, and using and abusing millions of people's data, legislation is being brought in to regulate platforms like Facebook and Google.

Readers of these pages will be familiar that in addition to holding its gold bars in a HSBC vault in London, the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), the world's largest gold-backed ETF, at times also holds some of its gold bars in the vaults of the 'Bank of England' in London.

Hundreds of mortgage deal offers in the U.K. have been pulled after market chaos sparked concerns about interest rates rising as high as 6% for 2023.

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Ministers face claims they have allowed the ruling elite of Kazakhstan to secretly invest vast chunks of the country's wealth in the London property market after failing to introduce promised new transparency laws. Former prime minister David Cameron pledged at an anti-corruption summit in London in 2016 that the UK would end the secret offshore ownership of property.

July 2 (Reuters) - Thailand's financial watchdog filed a criminal complaint against cryptocurrency exchange Binance on Friday for operating a digital asset business without a licence, the latest in a string of crackdowns on the platform by regulators globally.

France threatened to cut off Jersey's electricity supplies on Tuesday as the row over post-Brexit fishing rights between Paris and London deepened. "We are ready to use these retaliation measures," Annick Girardin, the maritime minister, told lawmakers in the French parliament. "I am sorry it has come to this.

In an impromptu, unscripted moment, the Queen said, "One cannot over emphasise just how diabolical these evil doers are. They do not hold the light of God within them," according to BBC production staff. The Queen warned her subjects that world leaders are secretly pursuing the 'Great Reset' in order to create a "dark new dawn" for humanity.