Output in the UK’s energy-intensive industries has fallen by a third since 2021 to reach a 35-year low, reflecting their exposure to the highest electricity prices of any rich economy, official data ...

Romania’s president-elect Nicușor Dan faces the political equivalent of fixing a car while driving it, according to allies and potential coalition partners, who warn that the country urgently needs a ...

From novel applications of cryptography to full air-gapping, organisations are finding new strategies to build digital sovereignty into tech infrastructure ...

The Trump administration has been pushing self-deportation for months, airing menacing advertisements urging illegal immigrants, “Leave now: if you don’t, we will find you and we will deport you”. But ...

US drugmaker Regeneron has agreed to buy 23andMe out of bankruptcy for $256mn, ending the genetics testing start-up’s messy ...

The staging of Wagner’s opera is problematic, but floating clouds of sound unfold from the orchestra conducted by Robin Ticciati ...

Hardline interior minister Bruno Retailleau has won a contest to lead France’s conservative Les Républicains party, putting ...

In a fallow year for mergers and initial public offerings, it is fitting that the largest US transaction of the year should be a combination of both. On Friday, the John Malone-backed Charter ...

The UK government has finally arrived to clean up what it calls the “wild west” of “buy now, pay later” lending. A new ...

The history of demand and supply shocks shows how negative supply shocks prompt more rather than less globalisation, ...

India’s grip on world classical chess tightened further last week at Bucharest, Romania, where the victory of Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, 19, compensated for the continuing indifferent form of his ...

For the chart-quiz element of last week’s chart quiz, we pitched down the difficulty with predictable results. Here’s what 24 of you said: Petrofac shares. Currently suspended. No extra points for ...