Distilled down into one key comparable metric, though, there is bleak news for Northern Ireland. Life expectancy of 80.4 is a full two years less than in the Republic, and below the 80.7 years that is ...

For Coogler, the movie sees the legacy of Marvel both upended, and not so much. Smoke and Stack may be mobsters, but the characters we meet here are also smooth, magnetic and roguishly principled: ...

A second fundamental question that OpenAI has barely begun to address is how to make money from this new consumer audience. Advertising has been the preferred route of mass-market internet companies ...

Some of Britain’s biggest supermarkets and food producers, including Marks and Spencer and J Sainsbury, have called on the EU to agree a deal with the UK government to help smooth exports of plant and ...

Virtually all EVs contain Chinese parts, in part because of China’s lead in battery technology and sensors. There are concerns that battery management units, onboard diagnostics or sensors used to aid ...

Kristalina Georgieva warns that Donald Trump’s tariff ‘reboot’ threatens to raise prices and play havoc with markets ...

Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today ...

Turkey’s central bank unexpectedly raised its key interest rate from 42.5 per cent to 46 per cent on Thursday, in its first ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will pull up to the White House in just a few hours, and the EU hopes she can figure out what exactly Donald Trump wants in these tariff negotiations. The US and ...

A quarter of BP investors have voted against the re-election of outgoing chair Helge Lund in the biggest protest against a FTSE 100 director for five years.

The ECB delivered a quarter point cut as expected and its seventh in the past 12 months to take its benchmark interest rate down to 2.25 per cent.

US envoy Steve Witkoff is due to hold talks with Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday as the Trump administration pressures Tehran to reach a deal that would severely curb its nuclear ...