Elon Musk has said US President Donald Trump backs his bid to distribute savings from a government cost-cutting drive directly to citizens, setting up a potential showdown with Republican deficit ...

Javier Milei’s prospects at legislative elections have been boosted after Argentina’s senate approved an electoral reform even as a cryptocurrency scandal raged around the libertarian leader.

Group expects to produce fewer trucks and vans this year as demand cools and Donald Trump hits out at EV sector ...

To drive investment regulator Ofgem should rely on longer-term objectives, National Infrastructure Commission says ...

When asked what future historians would say about the first world war, Georges Clemenceau, then prime minister of France, commented that the one thing no one could say was that Belgium invaded Germany ...

In your news story “Rubio to shun South African G20 meeting over drive for ‘equality’” (Report, February 7) South African opposition MP Songezo Zibi is quoted as saying, “The Trump administration is ...

The answer is not more availability of affordable insurance to permit more building, as Hielkema implies. If insurers are unwilling to insure properties in a certain location that is because it is too ...

By comparison, and for all our faults and perennial grumbling, we mid-table Europeans enjoy a relatively contented existence in what are free and civilised societies. This is the upside perhaps of ...

There is a very obvious way to make maths relevant to almost all students, and that is to place finance centrally within the maths curriculum. At GCSE this could be done by making it a separate topic, ...

I am puzzled by Donald Trump’s instinct to treat Russia as America’s equal (“Trump’s desire for a deal hands initiative to Putin”, Report, February 20). On all objective evidence, it patently isn’t.

This is an audio transcript of the Unhedged podcast episode: ‘Is the IPO market broken?’ ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Alibaba to ‘aggressively’ invest in AI, and Hong Kong’s low-tax appeal threatened by property slowdown ...