In a 40-page presentation packed with targets for everything from return on equity to growing its wealth management business, Nomura said that at the end of March last year 14.9 per cent of its almost ...

It’s the end of the 1960s and in a corner shop in Wolverhampton, Punjabi Sikh shopkeeper Mr Bains is talking with Surinder, his 16-year-old daughter — brilliant, beautiful and the apple of his eye.

In prioritising national growth over local opportunity, governments are praying at the wrong altar and chasing the wrong rainbow. Next week I will discuss how to pursue the right one.

The NFL team’s investment business, 49ers Enterprises, which already owns English Premier League club Leeds United, is ...

According to the Gospel of Matthew, what did the chief priests buy with Judas’s 30 pieces of silver to bury strangers in?

Italy’s population decline is among the most acute in Europe, after decades of plummeting birth rates. At present, about a quarter of Italy’s 59mn people are over the age of 65, while just 12 per cent ...

Kyiv’s tactical shift comes as Russia has stepped up its offensive in Donetsk region and advanced westwards, closing in on neighbouring Dnipropetrovsk region. Were they to cross that symbolic border, ...

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Reform Party leader Nigel Farage clashed on economic issues this week. Farage said his party was the champion of the working class, while Starmer warned Farage’s ...

David Commins’ nuanced analysis of the kingdom’s transformation highlights the ongoing tensions that the monarchy needs to ...

Beijing’s recent efforts to slow the pace of solar investment suggest that it’s not convinced by this logic. But as Xi Jinping’s government prepares its next five-year plan — due for publication later ...

The Google DeepMind boss and the Oscar-winning filmmaker on why they have joined forces — and whether Hollywood should be worried ...

Competition from groups including China’s DeepSeek suggest big AI models will be ‘commoditised’, warns Mary Meeker ...