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Clothing prices in Spain may rise by as much as 5 per cent over a six month period to February, which includes the Christmas holidays, a survey of retailers by the ...

British bankers should be able to spend their bonuses sooner, the Bank of England and Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority announced this week, relaxing rules put in place after the ...

Cyberattacks have cost British businesses around 44 billion pounds ($55.08 billion) in lost revenue in the past five years, with 52 per cent of private sector companies reporting at least one attack in ...

Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians overnight and on Friday in the Gaza Strip, many of them in the Nuseirat refugee camp at the centre of the enclave, medics ...

Britain’s parliament voted in favour of a new bill to legalise assisted dying on Friday, opening the way for months of further debate on an issue that has divided ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied that he had deliberately used his black labrador Koni to intimidate German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a meeting in 2007 that became a notorious diplomatic ...

Ireland’s two main governing parties looked on course to return to power as polls opened on Friday, thanks to a giveaway October budget and a loss of momentum by ...

A Greek police officer has been arrested on suspicion of assisting a transnational cocaine trafficking ring by leaking confidential investigative information to its members and helping them cover up illicit ...

Russia is waging a “staggeringly reckless campaign” of sabotage in Europe while also stepping up its nuclear sabre-rattling to scare other countries off from backing Ukraine, Britain’s foreign spy ...

Paris’ Notre-Dame Cathedral will reopen its doors next week to tourists and the Catholic faithful, five-and-a-half years after fire gutted the Gothic masterpiece, one of the French capital’s most ...

From Taylor Swift’s new Eras Tour book priced at $39.99 and sold only at Target, to a $50.99 Jessica Simpson puffer coat at Walmart, marked down from $84.99, major U.S. retailers ...

The European Union’s ambassador to Georgia said on Friday that Tbilisi’s move to effectively halt its EU accession bid until 2028 was “heartbreaking” and he also condemned police violence ...

When Russian missiles hurtle towards the Ukrainian power plant and employees scramble for the bomb shelter, a handful of workers stay above ground in a control room protected by sandbags ...

World number two and five-times Grand Slam champion Iga Swiatek has accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for banned substance trimetazidine (TMZ), the International Tennis Integrity Agency said on ...

Ferrari and McLaren, Formula One’s oldest rivals, take their constructors’ title fight into a penultimate round in Qatar this weekend with both battling to end years of waiting to ...

Manchester United came from behind to beat Bodo/Glimt 3-2 in the Europa League on Thursday, Spurs conceded late to draw 2-2 with AS Roma and leaders Lazio were held ...

By Sarah YoungBritish lawmakers must decide on Friday whether to support assisted dying, following what is likely to be a heated debate inside parliament and protests for and against outside. ...

Britain’s transport minister Louise Haigh has resigned after news reports about a previous fraud conviction involving a company mobile phone, dealing another blow to the new administration of Prime ...

Lending to eurozone companies and households continued to accelerate last month, supporting the arguments from some that the bloc’s economy has bottomed out and a “soft landing” was underway, ...

Australians reacted on Friday with a mixture of anger and relief to a social media ban on children under 16 that the government says is world-leading, but which tech giants like ...

Lebanese residents are prohibited from moving south to a line of villages and their surroundings until further notice, Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X on Friday. Israel said ...

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened a broad antitrust investigation into Microsoft (MSFT.O), including of its software licensing and cloud computing businesses, a source familiar with the matter ...

Buying a new home in Britain became a little more affordable this year as average wages rose faster than house prices and mortgage costs, the country’s largest mortgage lender ...

Most major stock markets will fail to even repeat this year’s lacklustre performance in 2025 based on the prospect of global trade tensions and a worsening inflation outlook holding back ...