International

British lender Barclays is selling Thames Water debt worth 236 million pounds ($319.9 million), Bloomberg News has reported, amid concerns the struggling water utility could be placed into special administration if it ...

British motorists can now lease a Tesla electric vehicle for just over half the price they would have paid a year ago, The Times reported on Monday, citing industry sources. ...

Oil prices edged up on Monday after White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said India’s purchases of Russian crude were funding Moscow’s war in Ukraine and had to ...

Real estate brokers have expressed cautious optimism about the sector’s performance in 2025, according to consulting firm PwC. In its latest report on the sector, PwC said that brokers are ...

Czech and Estonian researchers are joining forces to build a cross-border cybersecurity hub that will strengthen Europe’s digital defences in the face of growing cyber threats. By Michaela Nesvarova ...

The recent surge in government-backed stablecoins has sparked debate over whether these dollar-pegged crypto tokens will strengthen or destabilise the economy. The bipartisan passage of the “Genius Act” last month, ...

As shipping strives to decarbonise, a new wave of EU-funded innovation is proving that methanol-fuelled vessels could offer a scalable, low-emission alternative to diesel on the high seas. By Tom ...

In a city famed for transforming desert into skyline, developers are taking the building process into their own hands as they seek to turbo-charge a property boom and maximise cash ...

Amazon.com-backed (AMZN.O) Anthropic said this week that it will offer its Claude AI model to the US government for $1, joining a growing list of artificial intelligence startups proposing ...

The trade agreement between the EU and the United States was greeted as a humiliating event in European media. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met President Trump at ...

European investors have put more money into local stock index-trackers so far in 2025 than in any full-year on record, with demand for defence funds booming, data shows, as President Donald ...

Nomura expects the US Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by 25 basis points in September, bringing forward its easing forecast, amid signs of milder US inflation in July and early ...

Perplexity AI made a $34.5 billion unsolicited all-cash offer for Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Chrome browser this week, a bid far above its own valuation as the startup reaches for the ...

Amazon.com (AMZN.O) has expanded its same-day delivery service to include perishable items such as strawberries, milk, meats, and frozen meals for Prime subscribers, the company said this week. ...

Manufacturers like US lawnmower maker The Toro Company (TTC.N) are not panicking at the prospect of US President Donald Trump’s global trade tariffs. Despite five years of dramatic ...

World oil supply will rise more rapidly than expected this year and next as OPEC+ members further increase output and supply from outside the group grows, the International Energy Agency ...

Tourism group TUI has introduced an innovative gadget designed to transform the beach experience for British holidaymakers, called the Sand Shaker. According to an official announcement from the company, the ...

The Bank of England has lowered slightly to 115 billion pounds ($155 billion) its estimate of the net loss that Britain’s finance ministry will have to pay to cover the central ...

Oil prices erased losses on Wednesday after US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said sanctions against Russia or secondary tariffs could go up if Friday’s meeting between President Donald Trump ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched the 2024 edition of its World Air Transport Statistics (WATS) report, providing a comprehensive overview of the global airline industry. Updated annually with ...

Britain’s jobs market has weakened again, official data showed, with payrolls falling for a sixth month and vacancies dropping further, but wage growth stayed strong, underscoring why the Bank ...

British consumers raised their spending in July as unusually warm weather at the start of the month boosted clothing sales but demand cooled along as temperatures dropped and some of ...

Oil prices were broadly steady on Tuesday as the United States and China extended a pause on higher tariffs, easing concerns an escalation of their trade war would hit oil ...

Hiring intentions by British businesses fell to their weakest since the COVID-19 pandemic and recruiters said starting pay was rising at the slowest pace in over four years, according to ...