H2O investors file legal challenge to €250mn FCA settlement
The FCA publicly censured H2O for failing to “carry out proper due diligence” on investments linked to the controversial ...
News updates from November 15: Germany’s Scholz phones Russia’s Putin; US stocks suffer worst weekly decline in more than 2 months
The S&P 500 fell 1.3 per cent on Friday, bringing its losses for the week to 2.1 per cent, its steepest drop since early September. The Nasdaq Composite fell 2.2 per cent on Friday and 3.1 per cent ...
How James Dyson’s farming empire may land his estate with £120mn in death duties
Dyson Farming owns at least 36,000 acres, the group says, across Lincolnshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. It ...
What evidence tells us about the Fed’s independence and Trump
Powell has been robust with the president-elect, but the inflation-reducing benefits of independence are not entirely safe in the US ...
Wildlife is wonderful — but not in my back garden
The mild weather favours flowery Novembers but destructive animals are out in force. Plants that resist attack are the way to ...
Rupert Murdoch’s UK news group settles with almost 40 claimants over alleged phone hacking
A cast of almost 40 public figures have reached settlements with Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers over allegations of ...
British Museum chief Nicholas Cullinan: ‘I start with the idea that everything is possible’
The new director on transforming one of the world’s biggest cultural institutions, last year’s scandal over thefts — and what ...
Cannes prizewinner Payal Kapadia: ‘In India identity comes in the way of a lot of things’
The director of ‘All We Imagine as Light’ discusses big city lives, urban migration and Mumbai’s violent gentrification ...
‘Hygge’ in your ‘hytte’: turf cabins lure the international ski crowd
Beloved by Norway’s naturalists, these retreats in the wilderness are riding the ‘coolcation’ trend as international buyers ...
Jane Street invested in start-up turning China’s noodle shop sales into securities
Micro Connect has amassed wealth of real-time data on China’s economy by financing small businesses in exchange for revenues ...
EU judges grill Ursula von der Leyen’s lawyers over missing text messages
New York Times has sued European Commission over its refusal to release president’s exchanges with Pfizer chief ...
Friedrich Merz, the man who would be Germany’s next chancellor
Born in 1955 in the west German town of Brilon, Merz studied law and was first elected to the Bundestag in 1994. After ...