Human misery and environmental destruction have followed in the wake of the narcotics boom. Murder rates in once-safe countries such as Ecuador or Uruguay have soared. Traffickers have reinvested ...

The one good thing about Donald Trump’s recent trade deal with Europe is what didn’t make it in. Repeated rumours suggested that the European Commission negotiators considered watering down ...

Donald Trump’s administration has been pushing to embed crypto into the traditional financial system. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has signalled to Wall Street that he expects stablecoins to ...

The Finnish conductor elicited cultured warmth from the Amsterdam ensemble in programmes of Mahler, Mozart and more ...

Foreign minister Lars Klingbeil says his country will ‘live up to its responsibility’ on security guarantees for postwar ...

The UK statistics agency has underestimated the country’s gender pay gap for the past two decades, according to a new report that raises further questions about the reliability of key economic data.

Friday’s order from the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to stop work on the $1.5bn Revolution Wind project, which is 80 ...

Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer, has been officially ejected from Hong Kong’s stock exchange, ...

Alan Beattie talks to Mari Pangestu, Indonesia’s former trade minister and former World Bank managing director ...

Fundraising from IPOs in London has tumbled to its lowest level in 30 years. What will become of the City as a financial centre? In a series of four articles, FT reporters examine how different ...

Stuart Bailey, head of prime central London sales at estate agent Knight Frank, said: “If you are from the UAE, for example, ...

Alan Beattie, the FT’s senior trade writer, discusses these questions and more with Mari Pangestu, Indonesia's former trade ...