International

Channel 4, Britain’s publicly owned but commercially funded broadcaster, will be able to access more money to compete with streaming giants Amazon (AMZN.O) and Netflix (NFLX.O) under private ...

British employers added a record 241,000 staff last month, lifting the total number of employees on company payrolls to just above the level before Britain first went into a COVID-19 lockdown ...

Israel’s economy grew faster than previously estimated in the second quarter, bouncing back strongly after most COVID-19 related restrictions were lifted. Gross domestic product grew 16.6 per cent at an ...

Lebanon’s outgoing finance minister Ghazi Wazni said on Tuesday a contract for a forensic audit of the central bank would be signed in a few days by the new ...

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has released a policy statement on cryptocurrency assets, calling on service providers to comply with regulations and warning investors of the risks involved. ...

London will remain a leading global financial centre despite uncertainty over regulation due to Brexit, Lloyds Bank’s annual sentiment survey of financial firms showed on Monday. Britain fully left ...

British businesses demanded that finance minister Rishi Sunak stop raising their taxes and instead offer more help to meet the challenges of Brexit, COVID-19 and climate change when he makes ...

Chaotic scenes erupted at the headquarters of cash-strapped developer China Evergrande Group (3333.HK) on Monday, as roughly 100 disgruntled investors crowded its lobby to demand repayment of loans and financial products. ...

Britain’s biggest airport Heathrow said on Monday passenger numbers were still 71 per cent lower in August compared to the same month before the COVID-19 pandemic, as it demanded that ...

Turkish industrial output rose 8.7 per cent annually in July, much less than forecast after a recent strong rebound, while the current account deficit was wider than expected, data showed on ...

The US Treasury Department met with a number of industry participants this week to quiz them about the risks and benefits posed by stablecoins — a rapidly growing type of cryptocurrencies, ...

EU competition regulators on Friday gave the green light to a slimmed down successor to Alitalia and said the new state-owned airline was not liable for repaying 900 million euros ($1.1 billion) ...

“Fortnite” game maker Epic Games on Sunday said in a legal filing that it plans to appeal a ruling in its antitrust case against Apple Inc (AAPL.O) after a ...

British retailer Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) said on Sunday it was reviewing the future of its French business, with new trade rules in place since Britain left the European ...

On September 2, Cardano’s ada token broke through $3 for the first time after it was announced that the network had completed a smart contracts upgrade. It has fallen back to $2.61 ...

Lebanese leaders agreed a new government led by Sunni Muslim tycoon Najib Mikati on Friday after a year of feuding over cabinet seats that has exacerbated a devastating economic collapse, ...

Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) said on Friday it will release “Eternals,” “West Side Story” and the rest of its 2021 films exclusively in theatres before sending them to streaming, a ...

Europe’s no-frills airlines are heralding a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to grab market share from traditional carriers struggling to emerge from the pandemic, but each will have to overcome significant challenges ...

Hybrid working, meaning a combination of office work and working remotely, is here to stay according to US corporation Microsoft and corporate social networking site LinkedIn. The two companies’ CEOs, ...

Harvard University is ending its investments in fossil fuels, the school’s president said on Thursday, drawing praise from divestment activists who had long pressed the leading university to exit ...

A set of 107 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) representing images of cartoon apes sold for $24.4 million in an online sale at Sotheby’s auction house on Thursday, as the market for the ...

Turkey’s unemployment rate rose to 12.0 per cent in July from 10.6 per cent a month earlier as pandemic-related labour supports expired, according to data on Friday that also showed an ...

With Turkish inflation close to 20 per cent, with 27 per cent of the population unable to afford necessities, the central bank has warned that it is planning to reduce interest rates. ...

Transavia, which flies to/from Cyprus from Amsterdam, is planning to boost its flights to twice per week in the winter, and once per day in the summer. This is ...