International

Marks & Spencer (MKS.L) will rejoin Britain’s FTSE 100 (.FTSE) stock index after a four-year hiatus, it was confirmed on Wednesday, capping a return to fashion for the food ...

British companies are their most confident since before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to a survey that also showed they planned to keep on raising prices and staff pay, ...

UBS Group (UBSG.S) plans to cut 3,000 jobs in Switzerland in the next couple of years, as it offered the first glimpse of how it plans to achieve more than $10 ...

Qatar Airways is optimistic about Brazil and the overall Latin American market as part of a global network expansion strategy on the heels of a World Cup-driven surge for its ...

A US judge has rejected Burger King’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper sandwich appear larger than it actually is. ...

A group of engineers, researchers and a Silicon Valley-based chip company collaborated to release advanced Arabic language software that can power generative AI applications. The new large language model called ...

A big selloff that pushed US borrowing costs to 15-year highs left euro zone bonds relatively unscathed in August, reflecting investor bets the bloc’s economic growth and funding needs ...

Nvidia Corp’s (NVDA.O) soaring rally has thrilled investors this year – except for the sizeable number of fund managers who avoided what they believe to be an expensive stock. ...

Japan may be at an inflection point in its 25-year battle with deflation as price and wage rises show signs of broadening, the government said on Tuesday, signalling its conviction ...

Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) on Tuesday said it has suspended operations at all 14 of its assembly plants in Japan due to a production system malfunction, bringing domestic output to a ...

In years past, Siberian Viktor Motorin could hop on a plane and arrive in Crimea just four hours later to relax at his holiday apartment. Now he must fly first ...

Record levels of government debt, geopolitical tensions that threaten to split the global trading system, and the likely persistence of weak productivity gains may saddle the world with a slow-growth ...

British consumers’ mood perked up this month as lower inflation made individuals less downbeat about the outlook for their personal finances, although sentiment remained poor overall due to concern about ...

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what ...

Britain’s competition regulator plans to propose a deeper probe into the large amount of land controlled by top homebuilders and into high charges arising from difficulties in handing over ...

Credit Suisse, which is now a subsidiary of UBS (UBSG.S), posted a loss of 3.5 billion Swiss francs ($4.0 billion) in the second quarter of 2023, according to a report in the ...

Turkey’s latest massive interest rate hike has caught the attention of long-sceptical foreign investors who say they could return to Turkish assets if authorities continue to demonstrate that a ...

Many smaller US manufacturers that supply parts to the Detroit Three automakers will be at risk if a long United Auto Workers strike shuts down assembly lines starting next month, ...

European researchers are striving to improve the technology that could one day help blind people see again. By Anthony King Berna Gomez, a former science teacher from Spain, became a ...

British retailer the John Lewis Partnership said on Friday it is recruiting for more than 10,000 jobs over the coming months – 1,700 permanent positions and over 8,400 seasonal roles. The employee-owned partnership trades ...

Proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services recommended on Wednesday that Nike (NKE.N) investors vote for a resolution calling on the company to disclose more data on pay equity for ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) far exceeded expectations with its quarterly revenue forecast on Wednesday as an artificial-intelligence boom fueled demand for its chips and said it would buy back $25 billion in ...

Germany plans to almost double its public funding for artificial intelligence research to nearly a billion euros over the next two years, as it attempts to close a skills gap ...

Google will provide more information on targeted advertisements and give researchers more access to data on how its products work, to comply with landmark European Union online content rules, the ...