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Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday with tales of psychological torture and intimidation. The ship’s captain ...

Bitcoin hit a new record high and approached $50,000 on Sunday, building on its record rally as Wall Street and Main Street increasingly adopt the world’s biggest cryptocurrency Bitcoin recently ...

The European Union will fast track approvals of coronavirus vaccines adapted to combat mutations, the bloc’s Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. “We have ...

Gold dipped on Friday with a firmer dollar, while platinum was headed for its biggest weekly rise since March 2020 on expectations for a revival in auto sector demand. “There’s ...

Ethereum’s ether (ETH), the world’s second-largest crypto asset, has long been overshadowed by its predecessor bitcoin. But it seems to finally be coming out on its own. Ether ...

The European Union’s executive wants Hungary to reform its public procurement laws to curb what it calls “systemic irregularities” before billions of euros from the EU pandemic recovery fund ...

Iridium has become the latest precious metal to undergo a spectacular price rally, after supply shortages and expectations it will be used to produce hydrogen to power a greener economy. ...

Dogecoin, the “joke” cryptocurrency, has suddenly gotten dead serious, as investors pile in funds, raising its market capitalisation to $9 billion. ‘It took about 3 hours to make’, said Billy Markus in ...

Walt Disney Co swung to a surprise quarterly profit on Thursday, as ‘The Mandalorian’ and ‘Soul’ lifted its fast-growing streaming business, outweighing pandemic worries about its hobbled theme park operations. ...

L’Oreal, the world’s biggest cosmetics group, forecast a strong rebound in makeup sales when the COVID-19 pandemic gives way to a ‘roaring 20s’ when people get dressed up ...

UK economic output fell 9.9 per cent in 2020, the largest drop in 300 years and more than twice the fall during the financial crisis, according to data released by the UK Office ...

Italy’s prime minister-designate Mario Draghi will struggle to restart the Italian economy, the most chronically sluggish in the euro zone. This will be his top priority, but he will ...

The European Union will strive for close co-operation with Britain on financial services but London cannot expect “equivalence-based” access to the EU financial market if it diverges widely on rules, ...

After long being shunned by traditional financial firms, bitcoin has finally entered the mainstream. Bitcoin on Thursday jumped to a fresh all-time high after BNY Mellon said it formed a ...

Shares of Bumble Inc, backed by Blackstone Group Inc, soared more than 76 per cent in their stock market debut on Thursday, fetching a $14 billion valuation for the operator of the ...

Amsterdam surpassed London as Europe’s largest share trading centre last month, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The Netherlands scooped up business lost by the UK since Brexit. An ...

Heathrow Airport has added a new £8.90 (~$12.20) tax to all flight tickets from all airlines taking off at the largest UK airport, the airport spokesperson announced last week. Billed as a “...

The European Parliament on Tuesday approved a Commission regulation to extend market support measures for the wine sector until 2021. The decision was passed at the plenary voting session without a ...

Jet2 will not fly until well after the Easter holidays, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. “Due to the ongoing uncertainty and travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 ...

Electric aircraft startup Archer will go public through a merger with a blank-check company backed in a deal valued at around $3.8 billion and backed by an order and investment from ...

Coca-Cola Co on Wednesday forecast a return to organic revenue growth this year after a torrid 2020, betting vaccine rollouts across the world will encourage consumers to return to cinemas and ...

Hellenic Bank on Wednesday announced the resignation of Lars Kramer from the position of Executive Member of the Board of Directors. Kramer is to remain as Chief Financial Officer of ...

Huawei Technologies Co has filed a legal challenge to the Federal Communications Commission’s designation of the Chinese company as a US national security threat to communications networks. The FCC ...

Rates for container shipping have skyrocketed up to nine times regular levels, as global container blockages keep goods stuck in ports. There are reports of fruit rotting in containers waiting ...