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 ...

The Opec+ oil cartel said on Sunday it would raise production by a further 547,000 barrels a day from September, fully reversing its nearly two-year-long strategy of propping up prices by holding huge ...

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 ...

Luckin overtook Starbucks as China’s largest coffee chain by both store count and revenue two years ago, capitalising on a slowing economy that pushed consumers towards lower-cost alternatives. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

UK-based cyber security group steps up investment plans following takeover by US private equity firm Thoma Bravo ...

HTSI’s travel editor discovers – and revisits – some of the best-kept secrets in hospitality on a road trip south of Salerno ...