The UK's National Audit Office (NAO) has reported that the government's building maintenance backlog has reached a minimum of £49bn ($60.43bn).

A former NBA player repeatedly promised to build a resort-arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Investors and Nevada officials believed him. Then it all fell apart.

Has our time finally come? Did you say, “For what?” “To win big,” says I. We’ve rolled the dice many times in the past and come up losers, Muskrat Falls being just the latest example, and the jury is ...