The Trump administration is holding $9.7 million worth of US-purchased contraceptives in warehouses in Belgium rather than delivering them to women overseas, as aid workers voice concerns that the US ...

GENEVA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The World Trade Organization sharply lowered its 2026 forecast for global merchandise trade volume growth to 0.5% on Tuesday, citing expected delayed impacts from U.S.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to be hit by a bigger than expected downgrade to official UK productivity ...

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Finally today... Hundreds of readers wrote in to share their stories of long-term sickness forcing them out of work after Money feature writer Brad Young looked into the trends driving the crisis. He ...

The logo of commodities trader Glencore is pictured in front of the company's headquarters in Baar, Switzerland, July 18, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann Glencore is planning to close its Horne smelter, ...

US trader Michael Burry, who was played by Christian Bale in the Hollywood film The Big Short, has effectively bet that the current AI bubble will burst. Read this and the rest of today's personal ...

Container volumes handled at the Port of Colombo rose 5.7% year-on-year (YoY) to 5.43 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) in the first eight months of 2025, compared to 5.14 million TEUs in ...