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 ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz promised to “achieve independence” from the US after his centre-right bloc won federal elections, ...

It was on Sunday night, as the votes were being counted, that Merz revealed what could become the defining mission of his ...

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

US president’s pick to head Council of Economic Advisers has argued the central bank is at odds with US constitution ...

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever is raising more than $1 billion for his start-up at a valuation of over $30 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter — vaulting the nascent venture into ...

Canadian investment group Brookfield is buying National Grid’s onshore renewables business in the US for $1.7bn, highlighting its confidence in the sector despite Donald Trump’s anti-green agenda.

The same is true internationally. Although railways keep records of slightly different things, the top three most punctual railways worldwide are Japan’s (privatised), Switzerland’s (hybrid) and Hong ...

CDU/CSU has the option of forming a two-party government with the SPD, which won about 16% of the vote — its worst result since 1887. Chancellor Olaf Scholz indicated he would step back from frontline ...

Lawyers say London remains global centre for dispute resolution but litigation funders are being more selective ...

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

Eimear McBride and Nicci French, along with a Victorian murder mystery, convey the claustrophobia of the city — plus a ...