Prices, money and who went bust.
What things cost around the world, real prices against real wages, and how big names fell. Every number sourced.
Profits from April to September nearly tripled compared with a year earlier. Since the war began, American households have spent about $1,150 extra each on fuel.
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Kirkland's Home, the home decor chain founded in 1966, is closing more stores, two days after Christmas.
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Meritage Hospitality, one of Wendy's biggest franchisees, is in Chapter 11. It has already shut 33 restaurants since filing, and it wants to close up to 60 more by mid-November.
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Apple sells one phone everywhere, but the price tag changes the moment you cross a border. Here's who pays the least, who pays the most, and why.
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True Food Kitchen promised salads, grain bowls and feeling good about dinner. On 4 October it filed for bankruptcy with $42 million of debt and two weeks of cash left.
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Winter is coming, and 7 in 10 people across 33 countries expect to pay more for energy. We checked what a kilowatt-hour actually costs around Europe, and who got the nastiest surprise.
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Netflix doesn't have one price. It has dozens. We looked at what the Standard plan costs in different countries this October, and the gap is wild, even inside Europe.
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Your Star Wars steelbook pre-order? Cancelled. Zavvi, the UK pop culture shop born from the ashes of Virgin Megastores, stopped trading overnight. It's the second time it has gone bust in 18 years.
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Pat McGrath is the most famous makeup artist in the world. Her brand was once valued at over $1 billion. In January 2026 it walked into a bankruptcy court. In April it walked out with a new owner.
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Costumes, candy, fake cobwebs and a dog dressed as a hot dog. Here's where the money goes on the spookiest night of the year, and how families are trying to keep it cheaper.
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It's the same burger everywhere: two patties, special sauce, a sesame bun. So why does it cost almost four times more in one city than another? Here's the world's tastiest price list.
Read the full story →Huge firms with more than $1 billion on the books keep falling over in America. Fewer than last year, but still more than normal. And one of them made the wipers on your car.
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Eurostat compared the prices of more than 2,000 everyday things across Europe. Romania came out as the cheapest country in the EU, Luxembourg and Denmark the priciest. But there's a catch, and it's your pay slip.
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Your morning coffee got pricier almost everywhere. We lined up an espresso in Italy, a cappuccino in Britain and a takeaway in Australia. The gap is huge, and the reason isn't really the beans.
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That tiny credit under a news photo? Very often it says Getty. Now the company is in bankruptcy, after a wedding that got called off, very expensive debt and, of course, AI.
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The AI chat app that let millions talk to fictional characters filed for bankruptcy. Its founders had already gone back to Google with a big cheque. Now Disney wants the leftovers for $20 million.
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Same groceries, same rent, same bus ticket, priced in 155 countries. The top is ten times dearer than the bottom, and six of the ten most expensive places are islands. Pack your wallet, not your swimsuit.
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