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HSBC on Wednesday said it aims to save $1.8 billion in costs by the end of next year, as its new CEO revamps the bank to boost profit while navigating mixed ...

Premier League leaders Liverpool needed Trent Alexander-Arnold’s second-half equaliser to secure a 2-2 draw at Aston Villa on Wednesday that lifted them eight points clear at the top. Liverpool ...

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Washington next week, amid other meetings aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine, U....

Pope Francis is alert and cheerful as he battles double pneumonia in hospital, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Wednesday after paying a visit to the ailing leader of ...

Seven-time Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton made his first public comments since signing with Ferrari on Tuesday at the F1 75 Live event at the O2 Arena in London. Hamilton, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump denounced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a “dictator” on Wednesday and warned he had to move quickly to secure peace or risk losing his country, ...

More than $50 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza after the 15-month Israel-Hamas conflict in the Palestinian enclave, according to an assessment released by the United Nations, the European Union ...

Ukrainians rejected an extraordinary broadside by U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, saying they had no choice but to fight on against Russia as their key backer engages in ...

HSBC’s headcount fell 3 per cent last year and its staff bonus pool hardly changed as a new CEO sharpened focus on costs and initiated sweeping restructuring of the Asia-focused ...

Britain will investigate the long-term effects of vaping on children as young as eight in a decade-long study of their health and behaviour, the government said on Wednesday. The government ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hit back on Wednesday at Donald Trump’s suggestion that Ukraine was responsible for Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion, saying the U.S. president was trapped in ...

For the first time in three decades, Rabbi Joseph Hamra and his son Henry read from a Torah scroll in a synagogue in the heart of Syria’s capital Damascus, ...

Native American activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing two FBI agents and incarcerated for nearly five decades while maintaining his innocence, was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday after ...

Pep Guardiola acknowledged on Tuesday that he was playing mind games with his assessment that Manchester City had only a “one percent” chance of eliminating holders Real Madrid in the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration targeted bank regulators, rocket scientists and tax enforcers for dismissal, as a federal judge gave the green light for its unprecedented remaking of the US ...

The sound of hammer blows and welding drifted from the Skaramangas Shipyard near Athens last month as workers repaired the bow of a large tanker, while other vessels waited to ...

A goal in added time against Celtic secured Bayern’s progress to the next round while Brugge held firm against Atalanta after the Belgian side had raced into a 3-0 ...

More than 150 false killer whales have been stranded on an isolated beach in the Australian state of Tasmania, with rescue crews trying to save the majority of the large dolphins ...

US President Donald Trump said he might meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this month and dismissed Ukraine’s concern about being left out of US-Russian talks in Saudi Arabia on ...

Fast-fashion retailer Shein’s executive chairman Donald Tang told investors in a letter on Monday that “growth remains strong” despite the United States ending duty-free treatment of low-value ecommerce packages ...

Investors in HSBC are backing management attempts to shutter parts of its investment bank, even as U.S. President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda fuels hopes for a boom in ...

Two British nationals detained in Iran have been charged with espionage after they allegedly gathered information in different parts of the country, the Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported ...

Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of Auschwitz survivors, has died at the age of 98, said the Polish weekly magazine Polityka, ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia in order to not give “legitimacy” to Tuesday’s meeting between US and Russian officials in Riyadh, two sources familiar ...