Several thousand Boeing defence workers were set to strike on Monday after rejecting the company’s latest contract offer, ...

Wave of US trade levies arrive, Bank of England sets interest rates, and Japan observes 80th anniversary of atomic bomb drops ...

Trend adds to pressure on Donald Trump over inequality as he threatens to undermine reliability of economic data ...

But housing is where the buck stops now — and it reflects not only the struggle of younger people to move up the ladder, but the struggle of average homebuyers to compete with investors snapping up ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

US railroad customer groups have demanded regulators block or put onerous conditions on the proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern, as both sides prepare for a regulatory battle over ...

The issue for the UK — and other countries seeking, belatedly, to shield minors from online harms — is making age verification work. The most foolproof methods tend to involve uploading documents or ...