The Carpathians stretch from Slovakia through Poland, Ukraine and Romania in a “dark ring” or “magnificent horseshoe” some 1,500km long. Thorpe, a BBC journalist and filmmaker, follows their course ...

Sweeping US tariffs on Mexico were paused just hours before they were due to come into effect after an eleventh hour phone call between Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday.

On 22 November, MicroStrategy closed at an all-time high of $421.88, while bitcoin surged to $98,998. Bloomberg called its strategy an “ infinite money glitch ” at the time and CEO Michael Saylor ...

Artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic has demonstrated a new technique to prevent users from eliciting harmful content from its models, as leading tech groups including Microsoft and Meta race to ...

A growing body of research has raised questions about the environmental effects of microplastics. A study last month found their presence increased the spread of antibiotic drug resistance by up to ...

Italian financiers rarely opt for a simple plan where a complicated one would do. That shows in a five-way pile-up taking shape between the country’s banks and insurers. It’s a power struggle that ...

UK ‘magic circle’ firm boosted by pick-up in dealmaking in Europe and push to compete with Wall Street’s elite ...

A new framework proposed by the UK government could make it harder for upstarts to challenge the Premier League elite ...

Greenland plans to ban foreign and anonymous donations to its political parties after the Trump administration has said the ...

Switzerland’s financial regulator has opened enforcement proceedings against Julius Baer, the latest hit to the Swiss wealth manager from its exposure to failed property group Signa.

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has announced plans to send out crack teams to turn around 600 failing schools across England, as she pushed back against critics who claim she is in hock to ...

Vanguard is already a dominant player in equity investing, thanks to its enormous index-tracking funds and relatively ...