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British productivity shows signs of sustained recovery after long slump Britain’s economic productivity is starting to show signs of sustained improvement, ​economists have reported, potentially marking the end of ...

British households owe £6 billion ($8.18 billion) in unpaid energy debt and arrears, industry group ​EnergyUK has reported. Regulator Ofgem is ‌expected to announce this week a 4 per cent increase in its ...

Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military commander convicted of genocide over the Srebrenica massacre, will be buried “with the military and state honours he deserves”, Serbian justice minister Nenad ...

Iran condemns new US economic sanctions as “state terrorism”, while its supreme leader has banned acts that could harm “social cohesion” amid concern that further financial pain could spark unrest ...

An Israeli strike killed a Hamas operative and two of his accomplices in the West Bank on Friday, the military said, in a rare use of deadly air power in ...

A campaign of forced contraception in Greenland that ran primarily in the 1960s and 1970s violated women’s human rights but did not meet the legal definition of genocide, two ...

Defending U.S. Open champion Carlos Alcaraz faces a challenging road to the New York final while Aryna Sabalenka will also have her hands full in her bid for a ...

Nepal and China resumed rescue operations that had been suspended briefly in the flood-hit Himalayas on Friday after risks from an overflowing lake were found to be manageable, easing fears ...

U.S. President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on Thursday, escalating a feud with Canada that has already spawned tariffs on tens of billions of dollars in cross-border ...

South Africa were well-beaten in the opening fixture of their Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry series against old foes New Zealand last weekend but are unlikely to be as error-prone again ...

Six months after the airstrikes that began the war and propelled a badly wounded Mojtaba Khamenei into the role of Iran’s supreme leader, he remains entirely unseen and unheard ...

Norway’s King Harald, a reformer who emerged from the shadow of his well-loved, extrovert father over more than three decades on the throne, died on Friday at the age ...

Manchester City manager Enzo Maresca praised new signing Ayyoub Bouaddi but said the club would take a cautious approach with the highly-rated teenager as he adapts to life in England. ...

Novak Djokovic heads to the U.S. Open chasing a record 25th Grand Slam title, but his latest bid for history carries renewed questions over whether his 39-year-old body can ...

Russian attacks have destroyed Nova Poshta sorting centres near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and in the northern city of Sumy, the Ukrainian private postal and courier company said on ...

Seven commodity vessels transited the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, down from 17 a day earlier and below the ten-day average of 15, preliminary shipping data showed on Friday. Among the seven ...

China is racing to reduce the risk of more flooding at the disaster-stricken border crossing linking the Tibet region to Nepal after hundreds were killed in a flash flood on ...

South Korea supports US President Donald Trump’s efforts to resume dialogue with North Korea, but aims to ensure its security posture is not weakened and that Seoul is not ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attack a NATO country, and he played down media reports that CIA Director John Ratcliffe ...

Far-right leader Marine Le Pen sought to woo France’s business leaders on Thursday, pledging during a first presidential debate with key rivals to put public finances back on track ...

U.S. President Donald Trump renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America” on Thursday, escalating a feud with Canada that has already spawned tariffs on tens of billions of dollars in cross-border ...

Champions League holders Paris St Germain will take on Barcelona and Manchester City in this season’s league phase, while record 15-time champions Real Madrid will face Inter Milan and ...

UEFA has asked a U.S. federal court for permission to obtain testimony and documents from FIFA entities in Florida for use in a planned criminal complaint in Switzerland against ...

Ratko Mladic, convicted of genocide for orchestrating the 1995 massacre of at least 8,000 Muslims in a U.N.-designated “safe area” of Bosnia, Europe’s worst atrocity since World War Two, ...