On Friday, Moody’s pulled the trigger and stripped the US’s of its last top rating — downgrading it one notch from Aaa to Aa1. But does it matter? We looked into the implications of a downgrade a ...

Islamic republic wants to return millions of refugees who entered country before and after the Taliban takeover ...

Stuart Machin’s awards set to shrink after UK retailer’s share price drops following disclosure of sweeping hack ...

British authorities have charged three Iranian nationals with helping to “assist a foreign intelligence service”, marking a new stage in a counter-intelligence investigation targeting Iranian ...

Traders who won a ticket to a banquet with Donald Trump by entering a contest to buy large amounts of the president’s ...

French state-owned nuclear fuel company Orano is exploring the sale of its uranium assets in Niger after the breakdown of its relationship with the west African country’s military rulers.

When thinking of the spring travel issue this year, we took things in a slightly new direction, looking at emotional journeys rather than holidays. The people creating and featuring in these stories ...

Acquisition of securitised asset business from Credit Suisse has become a cornerstone of private asset group’s strategy ...

When the taxonomists were naming that one, they weren’t mucking about. Death caps contain a poison called amanitin which, according to the UK’s Woodland Trust, is responsible for 90 per cent of all ...

But are players really playing more now than in the past? The FT’s chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch and FT columnist Simon Kuper did some digging recently, and found some surprising results. Here ...

The crossover makes the UK the second-largest foreign holder of US Treasuries after Japan. It is the first time the UK’s holdings have been higher than the Chinese since October 2000 and is the latest ...

This is an audio transcript of the Swamp Notes podcast episode: ‘Trump’s tilt to the left’ Marc Filippino Right now, there is a prominent American politician pushing for lower drug prices and higher ...