International

Britain’s economy at the end of 2023 is now estimated to have been 2.2 per cent bigger than its peak immediately before the coronavirus pandemic, up slightly from a previous estimate ...

Oil prices fell on Tuesday as traders weighed the possibility that talks between Russia, Ukraine and the US to end the war in Ukraine could lead to the lifting of ...

Germany said this week that the United States would have to follow through on agreed lower tariffs on Europe-made cars before a wider agreement on trade can be finalised in ...

Shein’s British business made 2.05 billion pounds ($2.77 billion) in sales in 2024, a 32.3 per cent increase from the previous year, a filing by the online fast-fashion retailer showed. Shein does not ...

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, said this week that it had decided to exclude six companies with connections to the West Bank and Gaza from its ...

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 ...