Citadel Securities’ profits jumped nearly 70 per cent in the first quarter to $1.7bn, as the high-speed trading firm benefited from a surge of volatility across financial markets as Donald Trump took ...

Britain’s only two bioethanol production plants are facing closure after the UK agreed to remove tariffs on US ethanol imports under its recent trade pact with America, the industry has warned.

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for Rio Tinto’s huge new copper mine in Arizona, rejecting an appeal from Native American groups who argued that the project would destroy sacred land.

Private equity groups TPG and Blackstone made an approach to take Hologic private, offering to purchase the US medical technology group for more than $16bn, according to people familiar with the ...

The talks were the first known direct contact between the new leadership in Damascus and their Israeli counterparts amid a spate of Israeli air strikes on Syrian soil, said the people, who included ...

Sebastião as an economist. Amazingly, he had never held a camera until Lélia bought a “nice Pentax” in Geneva for her ...

On Tuesday, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a damning decision against Egypt: the continued imprisonment of Alaa Abd El-Fattah — a prizewinning author and British citizen — is ...

Fitch Ratings last week published a report that cited research from an important insurance oversight body, NAIC, questioning ...

NPR has sued Donald Trump over his executive order to halt federal funding for public broadcasters, the latest move in a ...

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has said his party would scrap the two-child benefit cap and create tax incentives for married ...

King Charles III will on Tuesday open Canada’s parliament, after being invited by Prime Minister Mark Carney, in a high-profile show of support at a time of heightened tensions with the US.

London’s transport authority has proposed a 20 per cent increase in the congestion charge and ending a residents’ discount ...