The German government’s downward revision follows a similar move by the IMF, which this week also predicted zero 2025 growth for the country, down from 0.3 per cent.

Beijing has called on the US to “completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures” if it wants trade talks, in some of China’s strongest comments yet on the impasse between the world’s two economic ...

The defeat for Caltagirone, the third-largest investor in Generali, and an ally of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is the second time that the billionaire’s ambition to overhaul the management ...

Market vibes: The Trump administration has encouraged speculative trends such as crypto, and there is a wild west feel at the edges of markets. Despite the major stock indices being down, there remain ...

Amid the ideas and wordplay, the author’s new novel only occasionally recalls the brilliance of his Patrick Melrose quintet ...

Andrew J Hoffman, a professor of sustainable enterprise, argues that business education is overdue for reinvention. In this timely book, he contends that MBA programmes are still anchored in an ...

The report is the latest portent that the gains from the IRA could stall as the Trump administration prioritises fossil fuels. On Tuesday, US energy secretary Chris Wright called clean energy tax ...

As its multilingual title suggests, the inaugural presentation explores how hospitality and traditions of welcome are translated throughout the architecture of the Middle East, North Africa and South ...

Keeping art on the move — and intact — costs an estimated $100bn every year. The experts explain how it’s done ...

Scotland stands to benefit from an influx of capital as investors spooked by Donald Trump’s unpredictability seek an alternative destination for their money, the Scottish secretary has said.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to “identify, track and punish” the people responsible for gunning down more than two dozen tourists in the disputed northern region of Kashmir, an ...

The US would be willing to allow Iran to retain a civilian nuclear programme as long as it agreed to halt all domestic uranium enrichment, the US’s top diplomat has said, as the Trump administration ...