Friedrich Merz is facing renewed pressure within Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) after a series of poor regional election results, with senior figures in the party calling for changes to its
Fifty-four years ago, on August 15, 1971, U.S. President Richard Nixon shocked the world by announcing a “temporary” suspension of the dollar’s convertibility into gold. That suspension was never lifted. The move
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has cleared its founder, Klaus Schwab, of wrongdoing after an internal investigation and appointed BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink and Roche vice-chair André Hoffmann as interim chairs
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U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to intervene in the case of Jimmy Lai, the British-Hong Kong media tycoon on trial under Hong Kong’s national security laws, telling The Times UK and
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As President Vladimir Putin meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Anchorage for a high-stakes summit, the composition of the Russian delegation is attracting nearly as much attention as the talks themselves. According
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U.S. President Donald Trump personally welcomed Russian President Vladimir Putin to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on Saturday, marking the start of a high-profile summit between the two leaders. Putin arrived shortly
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Major US technology companies are dramatically increasing spending on personal security for their chief executives, amid a surge in threats, public hostility, and incidents of violence targeting high-profile business leaders. According to
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A team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has used artificial intelligence to create two new antibiotics capable of killing dangerous drug-resistant bacteria, including MRSA, in laboratory and animal
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A major international survey has found that more than half of patients who underwent electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) said it was unhelpful, worsened their quality of life, and was often administered without full
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A free outdoor screening of the film Barbie in a Paris suburb was cancelled after a group of young men threatened council staff and moved to damage equipment — an incident the
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Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, Japan is beginning to acknowledge a group of victims long overlooked — the children of traumatised veterans whose post-war lives were marked
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The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka announces the visit of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) to the Port of Colombo on August 16. The visit marks the
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A sweeping U.S. plan to levy steep port fees on Chinese-built and Chinese-owned ships is reshaping global shipping routes, with many carriers already pulling such vessels from American ports months before the
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The Trump administration is in talks with Intel Corp. about a potential U.S. government stake in the struggling chipmaker, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would mark another high-profile
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China is preparing a fresh push to clear its vast housing glut by mobilizing major central government-owned enterprises and bad-debt managers to purchase unsold homes from distressed developers, according to people familiar
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Farmer groups in India have called for a boycott of certain US products in response to Washington’s latest tariffs and demands that New Delhi open its agricultural market to American companies. Trade
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