Britain's FTSE 100 bucked the global gloom on Friday, driven by earnings-related movements in several stocks, including IAG, even as investors eagerly anticipate a crucial U.S. inflation reading scheduled for later in the day.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's visit reflects Europe's concern over Trump's push to end the war in Ukraine and concede too much to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

US President Donald Trump has drawn accusations of appeasement for his rapprochement with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, seemingly abandoning Ukraine.

Guntram Wolff of Bruegel, a think-tank in Brussels, and Alex Burilkov of Leuphana University Lüneburg calculate the immediate requirement at 3.5% of GDP for Europe to be able to defend itself without the Americans—and in the longer term The Economist thinks expenditures will need to be more like 4-5%.

The biggest currency casualties of Trump's China tariff threats have been the Aussie and New Zealand dollars, which often act as more liquid proxies for the yuan. The yuan itself

Foreigners have been able to invest to obtain citizenship in some countries on the continent for years, but governments are increasingly changing course.

A propellant leak was to blame for the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket crashing to Earth over Europe last week, SpaceX says.