Donald Trump has tapped Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a prominent evangelical Christian, to be the next US ambassador to Israel. Trump made the announcement in a statement on ...

The value of the global cryptocurrency market has topped $3tn for the first time in three years, as demand surges on expectations that the election of Donald Trump as US president will be a positive ...

Israel has failed to meet US demands that it take steps to relieve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, eight international aid groups said on Tuesday, warning that Palestinians in the shattered enclave ...

Germany will hold snap elections on February 23, under a new plan agreed on Tuesday between Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats and the centre-right opposition.

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer resisted the call for more public finance to deal with climate change, saying it “on its own will not be enough” and pressed for a greater contribution from the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The coronavirus pandemic is over, but increased sickness is not. In many developed economies, more working ...

Brookfield emerged last month as the winning bidder to acquire Tritax EuroBox, which has a portfolio valued at approximately €1.5bn. The investment group agreed to pay 69p a share in cash, which it ...

UK-based telecoms group Vodafone has suffered falling revenue in its biggest market Germany as chief executive Margherita Della Valle attempts a major turnaround of the business. The division in ...

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party, the Social Democrats, and the opposition Christian Democrats have agreed on February 23 as the date for Germany’s snap elections.

Will one of the policy legacies of this parliament be passing assisted dying into law? The honest answer is “I don’t know”. Although assisted dying has been heavily defeated in the past, the huge ...

Metro Bank has been fined almost £17mn by the UK financial watchdog for failing to fix “serious deficiencies” in an automated system to check transactions for potential money laundering until four ...

Overall, the labour market data gives the BoE no reason to deviate from its stated preference for a gradual cutting cycle. Disregarding the distortions caused by one-off payments, the underlying data ...