Negative rates stir bank mutiny, Chinese wealth set to soar and a message of hope in Africa’s statistics
A senior Tory MP has abandoned the Leave campaign in the first major political defection of the referendum debate.
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Clinton claims nomination, Brussels bargains to solve migrant crisis, and the social disruption of technology
Hillary Clinton claimed the Democratic nomination on Tuesday night, hailing the historic achievement of becoming the first female presidential candidate of a major US party after a gruell...
Yellen voices concern, Hillary Clinton wins Democratic nomination, and how to live like a billionaire on the cheap
Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic party nomination for US president after reaching the required number of delegates, according to AP. Mrs Clinton acknowledged the report, but sa...
Agile Governance
Opec resists output cap, ECB plays down hopes of growth uplift and $100m to change the world
Opec won’t be slashing output anytime soon, as a near-doubling of crude prices since January eased tensions among oil exporters and Saudi Arabia's new energy minister rallied Opec support...
China
Uber’s expanding coffers, King Tut’s extraterrestrial armament and why a little anger can go a long way
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is investing $3.5bn in Uber, marking the largest single investment ever made in a private company.
European Union
Reviving TTIP, US consumer spending rises and beware the trolls
Washington and Brussels are scrambling to rebuild momentum for a landmark trade accord, amid signs that it is faltering under an increasingly bitter onslaught from politicians on both sid...
International Security
Nato security concerns, a boost for the sharing economy and why some cultures frown on smiling
Defence spending by Europe’s Nato states is set to rise for the first time in nearly a decade as fears over Russian aggression and the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean stoke anxiety ov...
International Security
America’s new supergun, Iraqi forces close in on Isis and which rock star will historians remember?
David Cameron is facing the threat of a leadership challenge following the EU referendum after the Brexit camp turned its sights on the prime minister with a series of highly personal att...
Behavioural Sciences
Greece reaches breakthrough deal, the rise of rage rooms and why we were wrong about millennials
Greece’s international creditors have bought time to secure the country’s financial future after agreeing broad but inexact principles to ease its debt mountain and break an impasse betwe...
Economic Progress
US Libor decision, Fed bet boosts dollar and the American retreat from greatness
A US appeals court has opened the door for more claims against the big banks for rigging benchmark interest rates, by overturning a three-year-old ruling which threw out a host of private...
Economic Progress
Britain's 'year-long recession', Expectations of rate rise grow and World Bank launches first insurance market for pandemic risk
Britain will be plunged into a year-long recession if it votes to leave the EU, according to a bleak analysis of the short-term economic shock of a Brexit vote to be published today by th...
Global Governance
Terrorism possible in EgyptAir crash, New York's mass graves and an unconventional way to control your spending
Authorities are not ruling out that an EgyptAir passenger jet with 66 people on board that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning was brought down by an act of terroris...
Travel and Tourism
EgyptAir flight vanishes, the spread of superbugs and the myth of the British stiff upper lip
An EgyptAir aircraft flying from Paris to Cairo disappeared over the Mediterranean in the early hours of Thursday, raising fears that the flight had fallen victim to the latest in a serie...
Trump open to talks with N Korea, the next big quake and how to manage your millennials
Donald Trump would have “no problem” negotiating with Kim Jong Un, the North Korean leader, if he wins the White House, according to comments by the Republican presidential candidate that...
China
Buffett takes a bite out of Apple, IMF presses EU over Greek debt and girls outscore boys in tech tests
Warren Buffett has taken a $1bn-plus stake in Apple just four years after admitting he did not know how to value technology companies. News of Mr Buffett’s rare bet on a tech group sent A...