A witty, irreverent study revisits the Oxford don whose private languages, losses and procrastinations helped to create modern fantasy fiction ...

President Xi Jinping and first lady Peng Liyuan will land at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday evening for a high-stakes summit with US President Donald Trump, as the Chinese leader makes his first ...

Intelligence service cites ‘low but growing risk’ of troop movement into neighbouring country or attack on infrastructure ...

The leaders are expected to discuss trade war truce and AI risks before a state dinner with American business leaders ...

Kemi Badenoch has predicted that Andy Burnham will call a snap general election in December, even as a new opinion poll suggested that Labour would lose a net 170 seats and its overall majority if the ...

But they are both really about how to react to a world where states and their leaders take their gloves off in using power to direct the global economy rather than let markets run their course. And ...

A sell-off in US government debt spread to Asia on Thursday, with yields on Japan’s benchmark bonds hitting their highest level in decades as strong economic data and oil price gains prompted ...

Study finds Europe’s efforts to reduce reliance on Chinese investment, trade and other links have produced only ‘modest’ ...

HM Revenue & Customs reported £1.2bn in bank surcharge receipts in the 2025-26 tax year, a rise of one-fifth compared with the year before. Bank levy receipts rose to £1.4bn, an increase of 9 per cent ...

HSBC’s board typically meets nine times a year in various locations, including in cities core to its business such as Hong ...

An OpenAI agent hacked an Australian government health service website in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on ...

FT investigation shows the state oil group’s hard currency was at heart of Russia’s efforts to circumvent sanctions ...