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British retail sales fell by a greater-than-expected 0.9 per cent in March from February, official figures showed on Friday, with bad weather and high inflation combining to keep consumers away from ...

IKEA stores owner Ingka Group will spend 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion) expanding in the United States over the next three years, its biggest investment in a single country, in a bet ...

Oil prices eased for the third straight day on Friday and looked set for a hefty weekly loss as softening US economic data and a rise in US gasoline inventories ...

Gunfire ripped through several neighbourhoods of Sudan’s capital Khartoum on the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al Fitr on Friday, after the army deployed on foot ...

British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab resigned from the government on Friday following an independent investigation into complaints that he bullied colleagues, the latest scandal to force out one of ...

British consumers were their most upbeat in more than a year this month, despite the surging cost of living, as they took a more positive view of their finances and ...

Fabio Paratici has resigned as Tottenham Hotspur’s managing director of football after his appeal against a 30-month ban from football was rejected by Italy’s top sports body, the ...

Rail workers went on strike across Germany on Friday, bringing national operator Deutsche Bahn’s services largely to a halt, in the latest of a series of stoppages over pay ...

Europe’s flourishing luxury goods industry was under scrutiny on Thursday after European Union antitrust regulators started inspecting a Gucci facility in Milan as part of an investigation spanning several ...

Volunteers in dozens of countries were set to plant trees, clean up trash and urge governments to do more to combat climate change to mark Earth Day, as scientists warn ...

By Andrew Hay New Mexico prosecutors on Thursday said they would drop involuntary manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during filming of ...

President Tayyip Erdogan flicked the switch on Turkey’s first delivery of natural gas to an onshore plant from a reserve discovered in the Black Sea, and promised to provide ...

A digital euro will offer choice in making payments and is not a “Big Brother” project that seeks to control people, the European Union’s financial services commissioner Mairead McGuinness ...

The European Parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly backed the European Union’s first set of rules to regulate cryptoasset markets. Parliament voted by 517 in favour and 38 against to approve the world’...

Europa League kings Sevilla breezed past Manchester United into the semi-finals of their favourite competition as Youssef En Nesyri scored twice in a dominant 3-0 win on Thursday that secured ...

The governor of the giant Russian territory of Krasnoyarsk has quit, authorities said on Thursday, shortly after his businessman son dodged Italian authorities trying to extradite him to the United ...

U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed Macron’s state visit to China, the White House said, a week after ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed to Sudan’s warring factions to observe a ceasefire over the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday to allow civilians to reach safe areas as rival ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill on Thursday ending a requirement that juries need to vote unanimously to recommend capital punishment before a judge in a capital felony trial ...

Donald Trump is free to skip a New York trial over accusations he raped a writer nearly 30 years ago, but jurors will not be told his absence was meant to ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed on Thursday to Israeli politicians from his government and the opposition to keep protests at his judicial overhaul plan away from annual remembrances for slain ...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched its next-generation Starship cruise vessel for the first time atop the company’s powerful new Super Heavy rocket in an uncrewed test ...

Tottenham Hotspur are not in negotiations with any bidders over a potential takeover of the Premier League club, chairman Daniel Levy has said. Iranian-American billionaire Jahm Najafi, chair of MSP ...

People all over the world lost confidence in the importance of routine childhood vaccines against killer diseases like measles and polio during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report ...