Donald Trump spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping by telephone on Thursday, the state-owned Xinhua news agency said, amid simmering trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

The European Central Bank today cut its benchmark deposit rate by 0.25 percentage points, taking it to 2 per cent.

Centrica has reached a £20bn deal to buy gas from Norway over the coming decade, in a sign that the UK will remain reliant on fossil fuel imports as it winds down North Sea exploration.

Even if the war were to end tomorrow, equipment production would continue at pace. As the army eats through Soviet legacy equipment, Putin is determined to replenish stockpiles — and equip his ...

Anjet Daanje’s first novel in English is a powerfully vivid portrait of two people dealing with their changed lives after the first world war ...

With pretty much all bets pointing to a quarter-point cut in the ECB’s benchmark deposit rate — the eighth one in a year — analysts are focusing on second-order aspects of today’s rate decision, which ...

The UK financial regulator has warned that a compensation scheme for customers who were mis-sold car finance must avoid destabilising the industry, damping expectations of a record payout.

Kimberly-Clark, the supplier of paper-based consumer staples, will receive a cash infusion as it restructures to cut costs ...

The English have long had a special relationship with mute swans. But when a magnificent male rears to his full 5ft height, stretches out his 7ft wingspan and hisses like a steam iron, what are the ...

Lower oil prices, which are down by 14 per cent since the start of the year amid tariffs and Opec+ supply boosts, have trimmed buyers’ ability to continue to pay heavy valuations. Sellers, who know ...

He made more than 5,000 samples while coming up with his famous Jasperware stoneware, each meticulously numbered; the ...

This government inherited a mess but it also hobbled itself with tax pledges and a plan dependent on higher growth ...