German chancellor has been driving force behind EU plans for reparations loan to Kyiv

Football’s governing body to hand out first such award at glitzy World Cup draw event featuring Village People

Bullish forecasts come despite recent investor jitters over tech spending and potential bubble in AI sector

Old assumptions about expectations and targets can no longer be relied upon

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Conservative justices hand win to Donald Trump ahead of midterm congressional votes

Central African nations ink deals giving US companies access to Kinshasa’s minerals and seeking to end 30 years of conflict

Briefing to lawmakers over September 2 mission comes as Trump and Hegseth seek to distance themselves

Grizzly Research claims that online review site pressured companies to subscribe to improve their ratings

Defence secretary faces serious questions over strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats

Reform UK leader insisted at a press conference that he had never said anything racist ‘with malice’

Government plans to lift current limit of £118,000

Rallying call by Sam Altman raises questions over the company’s priorities in the new phases of competition

Social media company considering cutting unit’s budget by as much as 30%

China’s favouring of small and cheap models such as DeepSeek could prove to be the better bet

Charlie Nunn says system of tokenised deposits has potential to spark change as dramatic as invention of smartphone

Financial Conduct Authority says regulation is not meant to ‘make judgments on political discourse’

Insurgent parties to left and right peddle nonsense economics but enjoy dramatically rising support

Charge on cash in stocks-and-shares Isas ‘essentially a tax’, Michael Summersgill says

Donald Trump’s special envoy to brief Kyiv’s chief negotiators on Kremlin meeting

Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than Labour and the Conservatives

And the prospects for a Hassett-led Fed

Proposal marks a last-ditch attempt to keep Ukraine solvent using Moscow’s immobilised wealth

Brussels expected to announce investigation in coming days in its latest challenge to Big Tech