The single currency gained 0.3 per cent in early trading in Europe to $1.0489. The currency briefly hit a high for the year ...

German voters turned out to vote en masse on Sunday and gave Friedrich Merz, the leader of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc, a mandate to succeed Chancellor Olaf Scholz. But this mandate is far from ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz promised to “achieve independence” from the US after his centre-right bloc won federal elections, ...

It was on Sunday night, as the votes were being counted, that Merz revealed what could become the defining mission of his ...

Weidel said voters had delivered a “clear majority” for a coalition with the AfD, which came second, and the winning ...

The UK’s contribution to that effort is symbolised by the Bulgarian and Union flags on the harness of the dog that was trained by the UK’s National Crime Agency to sniff out the kind of rubber used to ...

Last October the EU imposed tariffs of up to 45 per cent on Chinese electric vehicles, but the move caused deep divisions in the bloc. Sánchez in September said the plan should be “reconsidered” and ...

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is raising more than $1 billion for his start-up at a valuation of over $30 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter — vaulting the nascent venture into ...

US president’s pick to head Council of Economic Advisers has argued the central bank is at odds with US constitution ...

Canadian investment group Brookfield is buying National Grid’s onshore renewables business in the US for $1.7bn, highlighting its confidence in the sector despite Donald Trump’s anti-green agenda.

The same is true internationally. Although railways keep records of slightly different things, the top three most punctual railways worldwide are Japan’s (privatised), Switzerland’s (hybrid) and Hong ...

Lawyers say London remains global centre for dispute resolution but litigation funders are being more selective ...