15 October 2026

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UK news headlines

Deloitte helped in falsifying documents on Abramovich tax

FTSE 100 chief executive turnover sinks to five year low

Companies taking on new borrowing doubled this year

Bolt set for £190m VAT bill after legal defeat

Deloitte fined £11m after missing £30m taxpayer fraud at transport giant

Use of AI in job interviews on the rise

Businesses could face flood of ‘trivial’ compensation claims over GDPR

Asos hackers duped employee in data breach

International news headlines

AI demand drives EY global revenue to US$57bn

Cyber attack on fridges costs French supermarkets millions

Pakistan seeks global finance overhaul

Bank of America fined US$1.2bn for money laundering failures

Google invests €4.5m in AI-powered weather forecasting for Ireland

China looks to UAE for robotics manufacture

AI ‘less regulated than milk’, says Microsoft president

Formula 1 returns to Africa after 40 years with Rwanda race

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