I was recently behind a woman laden down with tins of Fray Bentos pies, Spam and fish paste. As she was paying, she excitedly told the assistant how delighted she was with the shop and how she often ...

Gillian Tett concludes her excellent column on the shifting creditor composition of US public debt, and US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent’s “numerous tricks” to keep markets calm, by recommending ...

The UK government has been forced to drop legislation that would ratify its deal to hand sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after the US withheld its backing for the ...

Kevin Warsh’s confirmation as the next chair of the Federal Reserve is at risk of being delayed until after the end of Jay Powell’s term, as Donald Trump’s pick to lead the ...

Until that gap is closed, regulated industries will add AI as a layer, as Waters describes, rather than deploying it at the scale that would constitute genuine disruption.

But the top consultancies know this already. Across McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC and KPMG, virtually every one of their global ...

Lebanon and Israel have agreed to hold talks next week in Washington, marking the first direct talks between the two enemy states in more than four decades. US vice-president JD V ...

Shares in Palantir rose on Friday after Donald Trump hailed its “great war fighting capabilities and equipment”, days after ...

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was the target of a Molotov cocktail attack on Friday, with the suspect arrested outside the company’s office after threatening to burn it down.

Crispin Odey has dropped his £79mn libel claim against the Financial Times over its reporting of sexual misconduct ...

Information security and software stocks fell on Friday as traders fretted over Anthropic’s advanced AI model, in the latest slide sparked by worries new tools will upend a wide range of sectors.

But his assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and his decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites in 2025 were smart, limited, strategic strikes that carried little risk of embroiling ...