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 ...

Apple said it planned to hire an additional 20,000 staff in the US over the next four years as part of a $500bn American investment plan, as chief executive Tim Cook becomes the latest business leader ...

Today, Europe must rebuild its defence industry, and also build a world-beating technology sector. These are big challenges, but the future of Europe — and perhaps even the world — depends on success.

Starbucks will cut 1,100 office jobs as new chief executive Brian Niccol attempts to revive the world’s biggest coffee shop chain. The company said on Monday that staff in corporate roles would be ...

. . . which picked Gregory Boggis of Lansdowne Partners. He gets the dub, the glory and the T-shirt. The charts quiz will return on Friday (by which point the FTAV team may be totally sick of charts ) ...

Wood Group, the embattled oil services and engineering company that was once the big homegrown success story of the UK North Sea, has entered talks with Sidara about a potential takeover by the United ...

A Saudi Arabian state-owned investment company has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Singapore-based commodities trader Olam Agri that values the group at $4bn, as the kingdom accelerates efforts ...

UK MP Mike Amesbury has been jailed for 10 weeks for assault, triggering a process that is likely to lead to the first parliamentary by-election since the Labour government was elected last year.

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

Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine’s president is facing his biggest fear: war without US support ...

The government has signalled its backing for a third runway, and Heathrow has said it will present a detailed proposal by the ...

Announcement comes as Britain prepares to unveil sanctions package on third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ...