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Germany plans to sell up to a quarter of its 20 per cent stake in Lufthansa (LHAG.DE) over the coming weeks, the German finance agency said on Monday, citing positive ...

Gold prices were steady on Tuesday, hovering near an over one-week peak, as support from safe haven demand amid rising Delta variant cases offset pressure from a firmer dollar. Markets ...

GlaxoSmithKline and its partner CureVac have seen promising test results for its “second-generation” vaccine which targets Covid-19 and variants in one shot. GSK and CureVac teamed up in February in ...

British employers plan to increase staff numbers by the most in more than eight years over the coming months and few intend to make staff redundant when government furlough support ...

Sterling steadied against the dollar on Friday as the greenback weakened following a weak reading of consumer sentiment, but the British currency was still on track for a second week ...

Global merger and acquisition (M&A) activity has breached new highs, building on the record-breaking dealmaking streak from the beginning of the year that has been aided by low ...

Former EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier last week called for a five-year moratorium on all immigration into the EU — a move that would effectively ban British settlement and all others, ...

Protesters have marched in cities across France for a fifth consecutive weekend against rules compelling them to show a Covid-19 health pass for daily activities, but in lesser numbers than ...

As cryptocurrency prices rally across the board, pushing the combined crypto market firmly over $2 trillion for the first time since May, some bitcoin and crypto investors are feeling confident the ...

Holiday company TUI Group (TUIGn.DE) said on Thursday a surge in bookings from Germany had driven a recovery from the pandemic slump and an easing of travel restrictions in ...

‘Nobody’s running the country’ said Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh complained on Saturday decrying the chaos and violence that are spreading right across the nation. At the ...

Recent developments have seen one major manufacturer’s high-end graphics cards becoming easier to find, with the increased availability being reflected in a gradual drop and stabilisation in terms of ...

Oil prices dipped on Friday and ended the week little changed after weathering concerns from banks and the International Energy Agency that the spread of coronavirus variants is slowing oil ...

A former official has accused the Turkish Statistical Institute (Turkstat) of manipulating inflation data, Ahval reported on Wednesday. Turkey’s last inflation report in July was at 18.95 per cent. This ...

Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform which lost $610 million in a hack earlier this week, confirmed on Friday it had offered the hacker or hackers a $500,000 “bug bounty”. In a statement, ...

Amazon Studios (AMZN.O) said on Friday the second season of its multi-million dollar “Lord of the Rings” television series will be filmed in the United Kingdom, moving fictional ‘Middle ...

Britain’s Gatwick Airport urged the government to make international travel easier after lockdown restrictions drove it to a first-half loss of 245 million pounds ($338 million) and forced it to ask ...

Walt Disney Co earnings on Thursday topped Wall Street forecasts for the most recent quarter as its streaming services picked up more customers than expected and pandemic-hit US theme parks ...

Hackers behind one of the biggest ever digital coin heists have now returned nearly all of the $610 million-plus they stole, Poly Network, the cryptocurrency platform targeted earlier this week by ...

The Federal Reserve will announce a plan to taper its asset purchases in September, according to a solid majority of economists polled by Reuters who also said the US jobless ...

Bilateral trade between Israel and the UAE now stands at €712 million, according to Israeli government data. Trade between the two countries is expected to hit $1 billion by the end of ...

The total number of government-employed people increased during July, with 92 additional people joining the public sector, the Cyprus Statistical Service said in a report. This represents a 0.2 per cent year-on-year ...

British online fashion retailer Boohoo said on Thursday it would invest 500 million pounds ($693 million) in the United Kingdom over the next five years, creating 5,000 jobs and increasing its ability to ...

Thousands of small and medium Kuwaiti businesses could go to the wall after being walloped by the pandemic, potentially torpedoing a private sector central to the country’s efforts to ...