The US has imposed new sanctions on allies of Nicolás Maduro across Venezuela’s security apparatus for “electoral fraud”, but stopped short of suspending licences that allow Chevron and other oil ...

Buffy Reid, the founder of British knitwear brand &Daughter, had temperamental weather in mind when she launched the underpinnings collection – a series of super-fine cashmere T-shirts, cardigans, ...

My waltzing partner, Roseanna Purcell’s Mary Jane — the story’s unmarried music teacher — confided that this was her chance to meet a man but that she had her eye on somebody else. Such intimate ...

Bucharest lodges complaint after far-right candidate who went viral on Chinese platform topped presidential vote ...

Yet improving prospects at US banks only tell part of the story. Looking forward a year or two, the valuation gap to European lenders narrows, rather than closes. The rest appears to be a combination ...

The bigger problem, perhaps, is an apparent downturn in that most traditional of British exports: “Services between affiliated enterprises n.i.e. [not included elsewhere]”. As Eurostat explains: ...

For all the small indications of sticky inflation and robust household finances, the data is sufficiently indicative of a continued long-term disinflationary trend to allow a quarter point cut in ...

Wizz Air’s former supply chain manager has been fined by the UK financial watchdog for failing to properly disclose 115 personal trades in shares of the low-cost airline worth more than £4mn, many of ...

Italian authorities this year launched a special initiative, Piracy Shield, to attempt to crack down on illegal streaming of live matches in real time. Under the scheme, Italy’s telecoms regulator is ...

All the more strange, then, that on social care — which is umbilically tied to the NHS in many ways — it has stumbled from one mis-step to another.

Gordon Brown’s former communications chief has been tapped up for the role of “EU sherpa”, leading the UK government’s reset talks with Brussels, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer looks to strengthen ...

As the title of Duggan’s third book — preceded by Killer Thinking and Cult Status — suggests, we should work backwards by identifying the lifestyle to which we aspire, pinpointing the income that ...