McDonald’s shares lost 16% of their value between January and July, their worst half-yearly run since the global financial ...

Xiongan, China’s “city of the future” and a pet project of Xi Jinping, the country’s supreme leader, has become a byword for ...

Acquisition talks carried on. A tidy takeover suited Panama and the United States. Only once the Chinese government made its ...

Yet when the cabinet voted in July to force all 2m people in the Gaza Strip into a tiny “humanitarian city”, indefinitely and ...

To most people, Provence is a region of France. Increasingly, it is also a lifestyle brand. The word “Provence” evokes the ...

In Rafah, a city at the very south of the Gaza Strip, the first floor of a health clinic was being used as a hub for ...

Israel was born in violence and ever since it has wrestled with the tension between upholding universal rights and being the ...

More than two years after it began in April 2023, the war in Sudan shows no sign of ending, with deadly consequences for the ...

That same day Donald Trump posted on social media a letter he sent to the former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who ...

If consultants are to stay useful, they need to rethink what they do. The value of consultancies lies chiefly in their ...

Today the reproachful frowns are aimed at “ buy now, pay later ” ( bnpl ). This practice, which lets people pay for things ...

BP is not the only driller betting big on South America, which last year produced around two-fifths as much crude oil as ...