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ITV's chief executive has defended allowing Ed Balls to interview his wife, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, but said it will not happen again. 

An encrypted communication platform called Ghost, which was allegedly used to traffic drugs, launder money and order killings, has been dismantled. 

Paul Pester, the former boss of TSB, is to chair a recently launched fintech which offers customers loans secured against their investment pots. 

Scottish comedian Janey Godley has cancelled her upcoming tour amid ongoing treatment for terminal ovarian cancer. 

Police have dropped the case against a woman arrested for sharing false information about the identity of the Southport stabbing suspect. 

Asda's co-owner is stepping back from a key role at the business, just months after his brother sold his stake in the supermarket chain. 

A firm in Hungary's capital has been linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon in an apparent Israeli operation targeting Hezbollah militants, killing 12 people and seriously injuring…

A Welsh government minister who was sacked for allegedly leaking to the media has been appointed the new chair of the Senedd's standards committee. 

Scientists are creating "humanity's last exam" to test AI and see when it has reached expert-level intelligence. 

Nick Read is to end his torrid tenure as chief executive of the Post Office as he prepares to give evidence to the inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal.