Spain was hit by a huge power cut on Monday that affected most of the country, halting trains, disrupting flights and making traffic lights go dark. There was no immediate explanation for the outage.

In this newsletter, I’m looking at this week’s federal elections in Canada and Australia and pondering the electoral returns to be made from defying Trump’s bullying, which seem to be gratifyingly ...

M&A bankers can’t catch a break at the moment. Higher interest rates and market volatility were already making it harder to get large deals done, and now some are concerned that the European Central ...

Canadians will vote on Monday to choose the leader they consider best able to navigate a new world of uncertainty created by ...

Firstly, this was, to put it mildly, an unusual quarter. Even the most gung-ho green investor could be forgiven for wavering in the weeks following Donald Trump’s return to the White House, which ...

The bestselling Dutch historian makes a persuasive case for ambitious people to focus on under-the-radar causes ...

The US and Ukraine are close to signing a minerals framework deal as soon as this week, after Kyiv said it secured a significant concession from the Trump administration not to fa ...

Aiman al-Mudaifer was appointed acting chief executive in November following the abrupt departure of Nadhmi al-Nasr, who led ...

The “deathcare” giant’s executive continued to take the sky with aplomb in 2024 — albeit slightly less than the year before. Thomas L. Ryan, its chair and chief executive, notched up $241,785 in ...

Paramount faced unusual criticism from its own news show 60 Minutes on Sunday night, as the US media group seeks approval for ...

The big takeaway, as Miranda notes is, “don’t do anything that smells of austerity”. But the other big thing that all Reform voters want is for immigration to drastically fall, while most Labour ...

Airbus has finalised a deal to take over Spirit AeroSystems’ facilities that make vital components for some of its aircraft ...