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As Russia’s relations with the west deteriorate Moscow is seeking fresh alliances across Africa say Henry Foy, Nastassia Astrasheuskaya and...

Wells Fargo has lurched from one scandal to another but customers have stayed loyal, say Robert Armstrong and Laura Noonan. Can the bank onc...

Data brokers face heightened scrutiny in Europe as public opinion shifts on questions of privacy and businesses face tougher data protection...

The Financial Times has chosen George Soros as its Person of the Year and here editor Lionel Barber and deputy editor Roula Khalaf explain w...

The November sentencing of British academic Matthew Hedges to life in prison for spying caused a rare public spat between the UK and UAE and...

Nintendo, Sony’s Playstation, and Microsoft’s Xbox dominate the cut-throat computer game business. But, says Leo Lewis, these console makers...

In October, Angela Merkel announced she would be stepping down as leader of the Christian Democratic Union, the party she has headed for nea...

The Reserve Bank of India is embroiled in an intense political battle with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, say Simon Mundy and Henny Sender. T...

After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the west imposed sanctions to isolate the country economically. But, says Henry Foy, the reality has no...

Western governments have a new nightmare coming from China, which has decreed that new private sector technologies, such as robotics and AI,...

Since Britain voted to leave the EU, the Irish “backstop” has become the primary obstacle in the way of a Brexit deal, say Alex Barker and A...

Under the stewardship of its young crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia has sought to turn around its oil-dependent economy, say A...

Next month’s US midterm elections will be some of the most important in a generation, says Demetri Sevastopulo. Should the Democratic party...

The nightmare of robots controlling the human race will not come true, says Richard Waters. The future of AI will see semi-autonomous system...

Since Howard Wilkinson, Danske Bank’s then head of markets in Estonia, blew the whistle on money laundering in 2013, the enormous scale of w...

Emerging economic powerhouses like China, India, and Turkey are jockeying for opportunities and influence in sub-Saharan Africa. While many...

The Italian football club will pay some €340m over four seasons for Cristiano Ronaldo, gambling that he will lure fans and deals with sponso...

Purdue Pharma faces more than 1,000 lawsuits claiming it ignited and fuelled the US opioid crisis, reports David Crow. Prosecutors say the c...

On August 14, the Morandi bridge in Genoa collapsed, killing at least 43 people. Since then, many Italian politicians have blamed the tragic...

PwC’s mechanical interpretation of the rules failed to produce results representative of Bank of Ireland’s dangerous position leading up to...

Electric cars are the future, and so are the batteries that power them. Yet, these batteries are dependent on cobalt, which has linked the e...

YouTube video bloggers broadcast their lives on the Google-owned platform in the hope of attracting followers, fame, and money, say Hannah K...

Three years ago Volkswagen was caught cheating with emission tests, but they were not the only carmaker manipulating the data. Brussels is i...

The country saw a huge surge in investment after the global financial crisis but this has brought huge domestic debt and slower growth. Tom...

Digital distraction lurks everywhere. Google and Apple have taken steps to address smartphone addiction, but critics say the big tech groups...

India has a quickly growing gross domestic product and emerging middle class that is reaping rewards on foreign companies. Netflix entered I...

Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin has prompted scrutiny and caused controversy, as have US sanctions against Moscow and a Forb...

Beijing's ‘Made in China 2025’ industrial initiative has made government officials in America worried. The underlying motivation of the Trum...

Theresa May’s moment of truth is coming. In the two years since the Brexit vote, the British cabinet is still negotiating with itself and th...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears simultaneously powerful and vulnerable ahead of the upcoming June 24 snap elections. The long-time leader of Tu...

The former mayor of Mexico is set to win the country's presidential election on July 1. The politician is pledging to eradicate corruption....

The mines have closed, the jobs have gone and Mansfield in Britain’s East Midlands has turned Conservative. But to have a chance of power La...

Fifa will decide in June who will host the 2026 football tournament, with a US-led bid the favourite to win. But resentment against Donald T...

Antarctica contains vast untapped natural resources. But it is governed only by a treaty system that faces growing geopolitical challenges,...

Almost a year after four Arab states imposed a blockade on Qatar, the Gulf nation is spending hundreds of billions on infrastructure to boos...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a plan to extend national health insurance to roughly half a billion of his country's poorest citizens. But...

In the race to develop artificial intelligence technology, American engineers have long had an edge but access to vast amounts of data may p...

Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's new president, faces a slew of challenges from corruption to education and the economy. The FT's David Pilli...

Thousands of Venezuelans are fleeing disease, violence and economic collapse — creating the worst refugee crisis in recent Latin American hi...

Superstar partners are drawing salaries akin to those of top bankers and sports stars, as upstart firms challenge the traditional seniority-...

South-east Asia is one of Facebook's fastest growing markets, but the social media company is under fire over the spread of false news and i...

A major centre for the oil industry, the west-African city is on track to become the world's third largest metropolis within decades. The FT...

With cyber attacks against businesses on the rise, Oliver Ralph reports on how wary insurance firms are approaching a field that could be a...

Geely's acquisition of close to 10 per cent of one of Germany's best-known firms has provoked a fierce backlash. Berlin bureau chief Guy Cha...

Middle East observers say the region's social and economic tensions are creating the conditions for another wave of popular uprisings. Andre...

Black Panther's success has demonstrated the commercial potential for movies with more diverse casts and stories. With Sunday's Oscars putti...

The dispute between Europe's media barons Silvio Berlusconi and Vincent Bolloré sees their groups Mediaset and Vivendi battle it out in cour...

President Moon Jae-in's move to promote reconciliation with the North has angered young South Koreans and risks creating a rift with the US...

The former premier has returned from political oblivion to recast himself as both an elder statesman and an alternative to the populist Five...

Hedge funds who placed big bets on the collapse of the country’s indebted economy have largely failed in their strategy. Did the investors m...