Michael Adams edged nearer the all-time record for British Championship titles yesterday when the Taunton, Somerset-based grandmaster won his ninth national championship at Liverpool.

Paramount has agreed a $7.7bn deal to become the exclusive US broadcaster of Ultimate Fighting Championship, the largest agreement since David Ellison took the helm of the group.

A Bloomberg piece argues that Trump’s tariffs on goods from India have upended a decade of careful diplomacy from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Almost quaintly, Brazil is bringing a WTO case ...

Uzbekistan may not be on many investors’ maps. With a $1.5bn sovereign eurobond issue, plans to privatise $1.7bn of state assets and a cross-border fintech deal clinched, Central Asia’s most populous ...

Fargo’ creator Noah Hawley combines body horror and philosophical enquiry in this imaginative prequel to the 1979 film ...