International

The European Union will seek more gas from countries including the US to replace Russian supplies, and expand renewable energy faster to cut its overall reliance on the fuel, the ...

The Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO) has announced the winners of the prestigious Digital Prosperity Awards at its 4th General Assembly, held in Jordan’s Dead Sea region. The awards, aimed ...

A run-up in asking prices for newly listed homes in Britain has lost steam ahead of an increase in property purchase taxes, according to a survey published on Monday. Property ...

Many British employers intend to raise prices and cut headcount because of the government’s tax increases on business, with confidence among small businesses falling to a five-year low, surveys ...

Investors in HSBC (HSBA.L) are backing management attempts to shutter parts of its investment bank, even as US President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda fuels hopes for a boom ...

Lars Baumguertel wants Germany’s politicians to get out their cheque books. The 58-year-old executive runs one of the last surviving manufacturers in Gelsenkirchen, a former coal town in the ...

Fake news generated by artificial intelligence and spread on social media is heightening the risks of bank runs, according to a new British study that says lenders must improve monitoring ...

Global equity funds attracted significant inflows in the week ending February 12, after a Bank of England rate cut drove a rally in European shares, although caution over U.S. President ...

US President Donald Trump hasn’t yet imposed import tariffs on copper but the market is already pricing in the likelihood that the red metal will be next on the ...

Asia’s crude oil markets are adjusting rapidly to new sanctions against top supplier Russia, sucking up cargoes while they can and moving to alternatives for deliveries in coming months. ...

Global electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales in January rose 18 per cent year on year, as growth in Europe and the United States outpaced China for the first time since ...

Britain entered a rare deficit in its goods trade with the United States at the end of last year, according to data published this week that London will hope bolsters ...

While the seismic market moves caused by DeepSeek were short-lived, the release of the Chinese startup’s high-performing and inexpensive large language model is likely to have long-term implications for ...

Adobe this week released the first public version of an artificial intelligence tool that can generate video clips and revealed how much it will charge, but said it will not ...

Artificial intelligence will bring major upheaval to wealth management, a Microsoft (MSFT.O) executive said, as the technology’s potential to process information vastly reduces the hurdles required to compete ...

The European Commission this week scrapped draft rules regulating technology patents, AI and consumer privacy on messaging apps, saying it did not expect them to receive the green light from ...

The United Arab Emirates, known for its opulent cities Dubai and Abu Dhabi, has begun mapping air corridors for air taxis and cargo drones, its civil aviation authority said in ...

Barclays (BARC.L) raised its 2025 performance targets this week after reporting a better than expected 24 per cent rise in annual pretax profit driven by investment banking income growth and strength ...

US President Donald Trump has tasked his economics team with devising plans for reciprocal tariffs on every country that taxes US imports, raising the risk of a global trade war ...

Britain’s economy unexpectedly grew by 0.1 per cent in the final quarter of last year, official figures showed on Thursday, offering some respite from the downbeat economic picture facing finance ...

Ben & Jerry’s maker Unilever (ULVR.L) said on Thursday it would demerge its ice cream business and picked Amsterdam as its primary listing venue, with London and New ...

Nestle (NESN.S) reported slightly better than expected annual sales growth on Thursday driven by price increases, though the world’s largest packaged food company warned of a narrower profit ...

The amount of Russian and Iranian oil held on ships has hit multi-month highs as harsher US sanctions reduced the number of buyers, leaving fewer tankers available to deliver cargoes ...

The Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO) – the world’s first standalone international intergovernmental organisation focusing on the acceleration of the growth of an inclusive and sustainable digital economy – will hold its ...