Asset management chief points to continent’s financing needs and more stringent regulation to protect from mis-selling ...

President says ‘numerous’ nations vow to help protect vessels, while UK and Germany refuse to be drawn into wider war ...

Our colleagues report that one big beneficiary of the oil supply disruption is the country that is otherwise suffering the most from the war. Iran is estimated to be earning $140mn a day by discretely ...

Today, I report on the European rejection of US President Donald Trump’s demand for countries to join that conflict, and our energy correspondent reveals research into the significant cost increase ...

And it has singularly failed to work for investors in Chinese stocks over the past 25 years. While the biggest global economic story of the last three decades has been the rise and rise of China, ...

We begin with US-China relations, after Donald Trump cast doubt on his long-awaited visit to Beijing. What to know: Two weeks ...

In the last four years, China’s built up what experts believe are some of the biggest resource stockpiles in the world, ...

Nina and Moses Raine, who have adapted the 1904 drama for the National Theatre, on the twilight of the Russian empire ...

The riskier the setting in which powerful AI systems are deployed, the more we seem to reach for an intuitive solution: that ...

Nowruz is Iran’s biggest annual celebration but many in the capital are hunkering down amid US and Israeli strikes ...

The Middle East conflict is set to weigh on the already “hugely tight” market for niche metals used in defence industries, as ...

Spain has defended the EU carbon trading system, warning that it would be a “big error” to take it apart to alleviate the energy price shock triggered by the Iran war.