One day in 1989, Dutch magazine editor Derk Sauer asked his wife if she fancied moving to Moscow, where he had been offered a job. “Can’t we go to America?” she replied. Still, they moved with their ...

Customs data showed a 10.9 per cent fall in exports to the US in June, even as China recorded a trade surplus that month of $114.8bn. The numbers highlight the extent to which nimble global supply ...

The Swiss stock market, which was closed on Friday, is bracing itself for losses when trading resumes on Monday. Novartis, Roche and consumer goods group Nestlé, as well as luxury watch companies ...

The Opec+ oil cartel said on Sunday it would raise production by a further 547,000 barrels a day from September, fully reversing its nearly two-year-long strategy of propping up prices by holding huge ...

A Ukrainian drone hit a major oil depot in the southern Russian city of Sochi on Saturday night triggering a large fire, as Kyiv steps up its long-range drone strikes in response to Moscow’s ...

UK home secretary Yvette Cooper has set out plans to tackle irregular migration including speeding up the asylum appeal process, against a backdrop of renewed protests across Britain by anti-immigrant ...

Which brings us to Donald Trump. Let’s be clear: the WTO has many dysfunctional working practices, all of which precede Trump’s first term in office. So it would be unfair to suggest that the US ...

It also comes amid pressure from Washington, Canberra’s most important ally, to secure control of the port in northern ...

In mainland Europe there were no such concerns and “Police on My Back” was released as a single in Germany, Belgium, France ...

UK-based cyber security group steps up investment plans following takeover by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo ...

After Howard Lutnick is tucked up in bed, at about 1am, he takes a phone call from his boss Donald Trump to discuss trade and ...

Luckin overtook Starbucks as China’s largest coffee chain by both store count and revenue two years ago, capitalising on a slowing economy that pushed consumers towards lower-cost alternatives. It ...