The French are planning to lower taxes on high earners, scrap a levy on financial transactions and build three international schools in a bid to attract bankers from the City of London. French Prime...
France will end sales of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040 as part of an ambitious plan to meet its targets under the Paris climate accord, Emmanuel Macron’s government has announced. The...
Asian energy firms sank Thursday following a plunge in oil prices while equity traders remained on edge after North Korea's latest missile test and warnings from the US it would use force to deal...
Ed Sheeran says he’s quit Twitter after receiving a stream of abuse. “I’ve actually come off Twitter completely,” he told The Sun. “I can’t read it. “I go on it and there’s nothing...
Assets linked to Chinese tech giant LeEco have been frozen in a dispute with a creditor, a unit of the troubled company has confirmed, highlighting the firm's perilous financial state. Chinese...
The US Supreme Court's partial reinstatement of President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban has immigration lawyers and travelers trying to unpack how exactly the ban will be implemented when...
Former New York mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg announced Monday a $200 million plan Monday aiming to back inventive policies in American cities despite political tumult in...
Medical records of private individuals will no longer be findable via a Google search, reports Bloomberg. The news organisation noticed that the search giant had added the data type to its list of...
Shares in a film unit of Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group were suspended from trading in Shenzhen after a dramatic fall on Thursday following rumours that banks would dump the firm's bonds....
Saudi Arabia's hard-charging Mohammed bin Salman, named crown prince on Wednesday, holds unusual power for a man of just 31, so much so that diplomats nickname him "Mr Everything". The son of King...
Authorities in London, England announced on June 19 that 79 deaths have been officially recorded resulting from a fire which quickly swept through the Grenfell housing complex in North Kensington on...
Chinese and US experts from think tanks and political circles stressed the importance of more investment in each other while discussing the approaches to enhance mutually beneficial cooperation at a...
A fall in cocoa prices on the world market is weighing on revenues after Ghana missed its production target. The Ghana Cocoa Board (Cocobod) announced it was GH¢10 billion ($2.2 billion) in debt....
As the United States was withdrawing from the Paris climate pact, China's clean energy ambitions were being reflected in the launch of the world's largest floating solar farm. The 40-megawatt power...
A former HSBC executive was arrested in London this week to face US charges he conspired to fix the foreign exchange market, US officials said in court papers. Stuart Scott, a British citizen and a...
India's central bank held interest rates in line with analysts' expectations on Wednesday, rebuffing the finance ministry's desire for a cut after India's growth slowed. The Reserve Bank of India...
Led by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, nearly 1,000 business and government leaders declared Monday their intent to honor the Paris climate accord, days after US President Donald Trump...
Democratic state governors, city mayors and powerful companies united Friday in defiance of President Donald Trump's pledge to take the United States out of the Paris climate accord, drawing up plans...
In withdrawing the United States from the Paris climate pact, President Donald Trump claimed that honouring its terms would cost the country billions of dollars for a miniscule change to the global...
Indian billionaire Anil Ambani insisted Friday that debt-saddled Reliance Communications had a bright future as he moved to reassure investors who are worried that the telecoms company is close to...
