The US has placed Viktor Orbán’s chief of staff under sanctions for alleged corruption, the highest-ranking Hungarian official to be blacklisted since the fall of Communism.

Fujitsu Services Holdings, which provides IT services to customers across Europe, recorded a £78.6mn “impairment of the carrying value of historical goodwill” in its UK business in the year to March ...

In 2014, the UK launched Operation Stovewood, described as “the single largest law enforcement investigation into non-familial child sexual exploitation and abuse in the UK”. Some 39 people have been ...

Online fast-fashion retailer refuses to answer questions about whether it uses cotton from China’s Xinjiang region ...

The US stock market is on a roll. The S&P 500 index closed 2024 up 23 per cent, marking its second consecutive annual gain above 20 per cent. This year, the average forecast on Wall Street is for ...

Damac, the Dubai-based property developer, will invest at least $20bn in US data centres, its chair Hussain Sajwani announced as he met Donald Trump, the US president-elect, at his Mar-a-Lago resort ...

The achievements of Manmohan Singh, who died at the age of 92 on December 26 2024, make him one of the most important policymakers of our era. Today’s economically dynamic India is his legacy. Almost ...

Berlin is leading a push for the European Union to ease Assad-era sanctions on Syria as part of a western drive to support the country’s political transition and aid reconstruction after 13 years of ...

The quits rate, an indicator of confidence in the labour market’s strength, declined to 1.9 per cent.

The Canadian dollar, known as the loonie after the bird that graces it, got its wings clipped in 2024. Growing domestic political turmoil — Justin Trudeau announced on Monday that he would step down ...

Starting in the US, Meta will move to a so-called “community notes” model, similar to the one employed by Elon Musk’s X, which allows users to add context to controversial or misleading posts. Meta ...

Lumon employees grapple with newfound information about their alter egos in Apple TV+’s striking, superlative series ...