Among the technocrats, those leading the competition section have particular sway, and were dubbed the “ayatollahs” for good reason. They guarded and enforced the provisions of the EU treaties that ...

Ukraine summoned a senior US diplomat on Wednesday after it was caught off guard by the Pentagon’s decision to stop delivering several advanced weapons systems. Zelenskyy has been lobbying to buy US ...

Asset managers added to holdings in bet that sell-off sparked by doubts over Rachel Reeves’ future would be short-lived ...

Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance ...

The European Commission plans to propose a new joint debt instrument to tap capital markets in times of crisis, in a move that would give Brussels a permanent channel for issuance of EU-denominated ...

Abbe Lowell, the star lawyer who defended Jared Kushner and Hunter Biden, has warned that Donald Trump is pushing US democracy to breaking point — and said he was ready to help fight back.

In Indonesia we have more than 13,000 islands, and Bali is the only Hindu one (the rest are mainly Muslim). It’s quite different to the Hinduism of India – it’s mixed with Bali’s old traditions, which ...

Where the critics have a point is that ethnically mixed places are potentially flammable. Race riots have afflicted New York, London, Los Angeles and even Singapore, where fighting between ethnic ...

BYD continues to lead global electric car sales, outperforming major US rival Tesla for the third consecutive quarter, Yifan Yu of Nikkei Asia writes.

Activity in the UK private services sector rose at the fastest rate in 10 months while growth in the prices businesses charge slowed, according to a closely watched survey published on Thursday.

The deal with Vietnam lowers tariffs on Hanoi’s exports from a threatened 46 per cent to 20 per cent, but retains a 40 per cent levy on “trans-shipping” of goods — widely believed to be aimed at ...

On Thursday the Office of Rail and Road said it had refused bids by Virgin, FirstGroup and a consortium backed by train builder Alstom to launch new trains on the West Coast main line linking London ...