The news that the EU plans to temporarily ease fiscal rules in order to allow for greater defence spending is an unwelcome answer to an existential question (Report, February 15). More money for ...

If the US administration were serious about addressing its trade and fiscal deficits, it would implement a federal value added tax (VAT) instead of broad-based import tariffs (“Waiting for a large new ...

From John Killick, Former Lecturer, University of Leeds, Author ‘The United States and European Reconstruction, 1945-1960’, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK ...

A “collapse” of the polar vortex occurs when the layer between 10 and 50km above the Earth’s surface heats up to 50C in less than two days, disrupting the normal circulation of cold air around the ...

HSBC has renamed its “eastern markets” and “western markets” business sections, within months of creating them, after the ...

Discord is in early talks with banks about a public listing, according to people familiar with the matter, in a sign of a ...

Trust leaders have urged successive governments to widen access to strategic capital investment and ease restrictions on how much the NHS can spend on capital projects.

Also in today’s newsletter, US charges 12 Chinese nationals with hacking, and Trump hands carmakers one-month reprieve from tariffs ...

Ellis was hanged in 1955 for murdering her lover. An absorbing four-part ITV series re-examines her complex, truncated life ...

France’s president proposes discussions with European allies amid fears about US pullback and the threat from Russia ...

Donald Trump has handed carmakers a one-month reprieve on tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, in the latest last-minute policy shift to roil corporate America. White House press secretary ...

Former UK prime minister takes up part-time, paid advisory role at ex-Florida governor’s Finback Investment Partners ...