The White House will ask Congress for $2bn in emergency funds to tighten its southern border and secure support for changing the law to allow the speedier repatriation of unaccompanied children who ...

Why are we seeing many airlines stop flying to Israel's Tel Aviv airport? On Tuesday at 12.15 EST, the Federal Aviation Administration, the chief US aviation regulator, banned US airlines from flying ...

Italy's coalition government says it is going ahead with a 40 per cent sale of state-owned postal services operator Poste Italiane as part of a wider privatisation plan to reduce public debt. Fabrizio ...

Japan's zombie houses, which account for roughly one in seven homes, reflect a dwindling populace and what one analyst calls a "scrap and build" mentality. The population peaked in 2008 and with a ...

In this hair-raising chamber version of Sondheim's gory musical chiller about the demon barber of Fleet Street you don't just watch as Sweeney lathers up his victims, you feel the flecks of shaving ...

Barclays chairman Sir David Walker once described his chief executive Antony Jenkins as a mixture of "stainless steel and passion". To sceptics, those may sound like the perfect ingredients for a car ...

Tech companies including Apple, Google and Netflix have been redefining the idea of television for some time. But Amazon's announcement on Wednesday of its Fire TV set-top box was not just about how ...

Mr Wells, Mr Ellis and Mr Mead have all chosen to quit Zoopla rather than Rightmove. They have been joined by big brands such as Knight Frank and Spicerhaart. Rival Chestertons has chosen to quit ...

An increasingly strong performance by the South West of England helped push growth in business activity in the country in the final quarter of last year to its highest level for at least 12 years, ...

"Counterparties and creditors have more knowledge of their counterparts, more skill in evaluating risk and greater incentives than any public regulator will ever have." More than a decade later, Mr ...

The Qatar Investment Authority, which manages as much as $300bn including significant stakes in Barclays, Credit Suisse and London department store Harrods, has appointed a member of the Qatari royal ...

A US Senate investigation report last year alleged that Goldman Sachs had used its ownership of a Detroit warehouse company to boost queues to earn more profit by offering incentives. "The LME has ...