Decision marks Washington’s latest move to increase pressure on Maduro regime in Caracas

The longtime alliance between the Gulf’s heavyweights has descended into open confrontation

TMTG shares jump on news company will hand shareholders a new cryptocurrency with unnamed perks

Global companies offloaded everything from ice cream to cement businesses in 2025

Wall Street’s S&P 500 is up 16.5% in 2025, beating analysts’ forecasts, after markets shrugged off trade turmoil

Green party leader rules out co-operation with Keir Starmer

Reiterating the liberal ideals behind the revolution may be tricky when they are out of favour in the White House

Scale of Europe’s narcotics crisis ‘not even possible to imagine’, says EUDA director Alexis Goosdeel

Anger over collapse of currency provokes largest demonstrations in Islamic republic for years

Switch from defined benefit to defined contribution model aims to ensure long-term sustainability

Menaced by Russia and bullied by America, a potential Ukraine peace deal is not guaranteed to usher in prosperity

Move marks latest setback for project that originally promised to sell a US-made device

For all their faults, house price predictions are not as useless as you might expect

FT writers’ predictions for the new year, from the likelihood of higher Trump tariffs to the future of interest rates and the arrival of humanoid helpers

Total penalties imposed by financial watchdogs fell to $1.7bn in the year to December 19

Morgan Stanley analysts predict roles in back and middle offices will bear brunt

The technology is changing the way many people meet and form relationships but some experts believe it may do more harm than good

Personal guarantee from Oracle’s Larry Ellison insufficient to persuade Hollywood studio’s board

Despite the gloom, there are many advantages to being young in the 2020s

Policymakers sparred over decision to cut interest rates earlier in December

Official inquiry ordered into ‘serious information failures’ following historic comments by Alaa Abdel Fattah

US stock valuations are higher than before 1929 Wall Street crash but the dominance of a single sector has precedents

India, Pakistan and UAE join Trump in condemning what Kyiv says are false allegations of hit on Russian leader’s residence

Buyout groups targeting unloved assets and technology accelerated the pace of group break-ups