China's President Xi Jinping received Taiwan's main opposition party leader on Friday, in a rare meeting which saw both sides stress a desire for cross-strait peace. Cheng Li-wun is the Kuomintang's (KMT) first sitting leader to visit China in a decade.

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news. European airports face jet fuel shortages within three weeks - reports 13:33Jasper Jolly European airports have warned the EU that jet fuel shortages could hit the summer holiday season if oil supplies do not start to flow through the strait of Hormuz within the next three weeks.

Viktor Orbán has been the prime minister of Hungary for the past 16 years, but he is facing defeat in a hugely consequential election on Sunday.The Pro-Putin eurosceptic is trailing in the polls behind Péter Magyar,

Cuba's president has said he won't step down as he pushed back against mounting US pressure for change on the island.

Last week, on the same day the Artemis II mission blasted off for the first human flight around the Moon in more than 50 years, it emerged that Elon Musk’s SpaceX had filed for a record-breaking stock market listing to raise as much as $75bn.

FAA investigates close call on LAX taxiway just weeks after LaGuardia runway crash - A Frontier Airlines jet nearly collided with two trucks that crossed in front of it Wednesday night at Los Angeles

Windows of Eclipse Grillbar in Bavarian capital smashed by pyrotechnic devices as incidents of Anti-Semitism continue to rise in Germany

Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel needs to carry out the deadly strikes, and set up a "buffer zone" in southern Lebanon, to protect northern Israel from Hezbollah rocket attacks.