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Cash is losing its top spot as the euro zone’s dominant means of payment, a European Central Bank survey showed on Tuesday, in a historic shift for a part ...

Chelsea on Wednesday appointed Christopher Vivell as the London club’s technical director under the new ownership led by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital. Vivell earlier worked with RB Leipzig, ...

The rouble plunged to its weakest level since early May past 70 against the dollar on Wednesday, taking its monthly losses to almost 14% as fears over sanctions on Russian oil and ...

To borrow from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, 2022 is not a year on which the cryptocurrency world shall look back with undiluted pleasure. Crashes, contagion, collapses came in such quick succession ...

Female university students in Afghanistan were turned away from campuses on Wednesday after the Taliban-run administration said women would be suspended from tertiary education. The decision to bar women was ...

The French Football Federation (FFF) has condemned the online racist abuse directed towards its players and pledged to take action after they were targeted as the team lost to Argentina ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is expected to travel to Washington, meet President Joe Biden and visit Congress on Wednesday, sources familiar with the matter said, in his first known overseas ...

Billionaire Elon Musk said he will step down as chief executive of Twitter Inc TWTR.N once he finds a replacement, but will still run some key divisions of the ...

Belarus issued a ruling on Wednesday temporarily restricting access to parts of the southeastern Gomel region that borders Ukraine and Russia. The government said on its website it would “temporarily ...

British house prices look on track to drop by about 5 per cent next year, as home-buyers face higher interest rates, a squeeze on disposable income and a potential rise in ...

The World Bank on Tuesday said it had approved an additional financing package totaling $610 million to address urgent relief and recovery needs in Ukraine as the war with Russia continues. ...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has signed legal papers paving the way for his extradition from The Bahamas to the United States, where he faces fraud charges over the cryptocurrency exchange’...

Afghanistan’s Taliban-run Afghan higher education ministry said on Tuesday that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until further notice. A letter, confirmed by ...

The pound eked out a small gain on Tuesday in thin trading ahead of the Christmas holidays, but was on track for its strongest quarterly gain against the dollar since 2009. ...

Russian companies are interested in cooperating with Iran on gas turbine technology and joint production, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said in a statement on Tuesday. Russia has been trying ...

A strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of northern California on Tuesday rocked people awake, damaged a bridge, caused gas leaks and left thousands without power. The earthquake ...

A powerful magnitude 6.4 earthquake jolted the extreme northern coast of California before dawn on Tuesday, crumpling homes and roads, rupturing utility lines and leaving thousands of residents without running water ...

“Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard Inc’s (ATVI.O) chief operating officer Daniel Alegre will join “Bored Ape” NFT maker Yuga Labs as its chief executive, the metaverse startup ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the situation in Russian-held parts of Ukraine was “extremely difficult” on Tuesday while his Ukrainian counterpart drove home the message by visiting a frontline town ...

The world’s biggest crypto exchange, Binance, is battling to shore up confidence after a surge in customer withdrawals and a steep drop in the value of its digital token. ...

Drivers at 15 train companies in Britain will strike on Jan. 5 as part of an ongoing dispute over pay, the ASLEF trade union said on Tuesday. The union said the strike ...

The US Supreme Court on Monday said Covid-era restrictions at the US-Mexico border that have prevented hundreds of thousands of migrants from seeking asylum should be kept in place for ...

The EU foreign policy chief told Iran’s foreign minister that Tehran should immediately halt military support for Russia and internal repression in Iran, reflecting worsening ties as diplomacy to ...

BlackRock (BLK.N) plans no major changes to the way it engages with companies and votes on environmental and social issues in the year ahead, despite a backlash against its ...