Business

BP has placed its North Sea oil and gas business up for sale.

One of Britain's biggest high street bookmakers is to axe hundreds of jobs as it prepares to close more than 130 shops amid a deepening tax raid on the industry.

Sainsbury's has revealed it is selling Argos under a "business as usual" deal that will allow the company to concentrate on its core grocery business.

Apple has warned it is seeking alternative memory chip suppliers as "very significant" constraints threaten future sales of its key devices.

Two of the High Speed 2 (HS2) railway's most significant private sector deals have been renegotiated, the government will announce on Friday, as it tries to demonstrate that Britain's biggest infrastructure white elephant is finally under control.

I realise the World Cup is over and, more to the point, no-one particularly wants to hear any more about the Argentinian football team, but indulge me for a moment

The financier who backed the takeover of Newcastle United Football Club alongside Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund is in talks to buy a minority stake in West Ham United, the newly relegated Championship club.

The president of the Indonesian football association has vowed to vote in support of FIFA president Gianni Infantino's controversial plan to sell a multibillion dollar stake in the World Cup's commercial rights, even as global opposition to the proposals gathers momentum.

The owner of Poundland has tabled an offer for Harvey Nichols as the owner of the Knightsbridge-based department store chain nears a decision about its future.

Shell has revealed a 70% lift in half-year profits to $16.75bn (£12.6bn), prompting a long-standing critic to claim they were "running out of words to describe the obscenity" of the numbers.