OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman’s San Francisco home was the target of a Molotov cocktail attack on Friday, with the suspect arrested outside the company’s office after threatening to burn it down.

Crispin Odey has dropped his £79mn libel claim against the Financial Times over its reporting of sexual misconduct allegations against him, acknowledging that the FT would win in its defence.  In a ...

At least nine of the 14 or so vessels to have transited chokepoint since the pause in fighting have ties to Tehran ...

Ireland risks temporarily cutting off oil supplies, the country’s premier warned on Friday, as protests over rising fuel prices paralysed key transport routes and threatened to spill over into ...

But his assassination of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and his decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites in 2025 were smart, limited, strategic strikes that carried little risk of embroiling ...

Investors have broadly made up their minds which part of the world is ripe for punishment as a result of the war in Iran. Spoiler alert: It’s not the US. “Punishment” is not quite the right word here.

The start of a two-week ceasefire between the US, Israel and Iran has sharply reversed gains in the oil price and losses in ...

JPMorgan Chase is in talks to join the top rank of Olympic sponsors ahead of the 2028 Games in Los Angeles in a move that underlines the enduring appeal of the elite sporting competition to the ...

Now it has 3,300 in 14 European countries and plans to open 400 more this year before taking a crack at the US market in 2027. Private equity group 3i’s initial investment of £134mn has been repaid ...

A customer who wants to send money abroad makes the payment to Wise in their domestic currency, with the company paying the recipient in this currency. The group has grown rapidly, has more than 13mn ...

SpaceX has filed for what would be the largest IPO in history. The filing is still confidential, but expect the usual: a dual-class structure, a sky-high valuation, breathless coverage of the deal ...

Phil, is this the US’s Suez moment? We’ll have to wait and see what the weekend’s negotiations bring, but reopening a waterway through which shipping passed freely before the US launched this war does ...