In Bochum, a town in the German industrial Ruhr valley, cheesemonger Heike Wischnewski said she was contemplating casting her ballot for the far-right Alternative for Germany. The 60-year-old, whose ...

The US president has hit the ground running, but he is dogged by stubborn inflation and tepid approval ratings ...

Japanese officials and executives say China’s escalation of export controls on semiconductor raw materials is threatening global electronics supply chains.

Ne Zha 2, which is based loosely on a 16th century tale of a young outcast endowed with magical, dragon-slaying powers, has raked in more than Rmb$12.4bn ($1.7bn) since its release late last month, ...

Sassoon said in a letter she sent last week to attorney-general Pam Bondi, a Trump appointee, that Adams’ lawyers had proposed a “quid pro quo”: the charges against the mayor would be dismissed “in ...

The comments come as members of Elon Musk’s team from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) have begun to review spending at Nasa, including the US space agency’s near-$100bn ...

Our annual survey of FT readers shows bonus payouts are on the rise, but so too are tax concerns and school fees ...

Fierce competition for a scarce supply of top flight buildings has allowed landlords to jack up rents. Average City prime rents have risen almost a third from just before the Covid pandemic, hitting ...

When Dior Maison’s creative director took the helm of a 7-acre property in Oise, she was a horticultural novice. Seven years later, its mix of wild meadows, box hedges and neat rows of flowers is a ‘l ...

The plan to approach Tesla comes after Nissan walked away from Honda’s $58bn merger proposal, spurring fears that Japan’s third-largest carmaker could fall into potentially hostile foreign hands, with ...

British International Investment (BII), which receives taxpayer funding and is owned by the Foreign Office, spent £3.5mn on business class flights for staff in 2024 and £3.7mn in the previous year, ...

Investors are urging the EU to make sweeping reforms to its debt securitisation market, Walmart has staged a major comeback, and Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba reported its fastest revenue growth in ...