The oil-rich emirate styles itself as the “capital of capital”: it has $1.7tn of sovereign wealth holdings and it wants to use them to grow a financial sector to rival Dubai’s busy banking hub, while ...

From the historic fishing towns of Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket to the quiet delights of Chappaquiddick and little Cuttyhunk ...

Chinese regulators are pushing back against US AI chips, Target shares fell more than 6 per cent after the retail group picked an insider to be its new chief executive, and UK inflation accelerated ...

The Clan, a successor to paramilitaries that fought left-wing guerrillas in the 1990s, long taxed local goldpanners and small-scale miners, but in recent years has expanded into running dredgers on ...

As ministers promise to close down hotels used to house asylum seekers after another summer of anti-immigration protests, in northern England their main alternative is also becoming increasingly ...

US oilfield services group Weatherford International is expanding its Russia business despite strict new sanctions designed to curb the flow of petrodollars crucial to President Vladimir Putin’s war ...

When some were housed in a village near to where I live in Switzerland, there were also protests. However, not by the locals, but by the asylum seekers as they considered this Romansh-speaking area in ...

As a near life-long Londoner I fear I’ve committed a legion of unforgivable lapses in good manners over the years, triggered by visitors who are oblivious to Pilita Clark’s very sensible advice ...

Retail investors’ complacency is only the visible side of a deeper affordability crisis in the US and the UK, as highlighted in “Investors lose billions on penny stocks after ‘pump and dump’ scams ...

On July 31, the agency summoned Nvidia executives over alleged “serious security issues”. In a statement, the CAC claimed ...

There is little doubt that a lack of clear progress in reducing inflation has spooked the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. Rather than a clear vote to reduce rates to 4 per cent in August, ...

Bankruptcy lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis are famous for the snappy PowerPoint presentation that they give to judges on the first day of Chapter 11 cases. Those cases often lead to tens of millions of ...