Formal encounter at Brics summit is leaders’ first in five years and follows deal on patrols along disputed border ...

The non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns of heightened risk of ‘an eventual fiscal crisis’ ...

It is the only communist nation in the Americas, was the first in the western hemisphere to recognise the People’s Republic of China and is described by Beijing as “good brother, good comrade, good ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It took the US Department of Justice four years of painstaking preparation to win its sweeping antitrust case ...

Few luxury goods companies cling harder to their heritage than Burberry and Mulberry, the UK’s only two listed makers of deluxe clothing and leatherwear. The former makes much of the legacy of Thomas ...

Weak growth and reduced price pressures could force European Central Bank to consider prolonged series of rate cuts ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. France’s new prime minister Michel Barnier has warned that repairing the country’s degraded public finances ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. John Kerry, the former US secretary of state and climate envoy, has joined the green investment group run by ...

The conservative activist who led the crusade to overhaul the US legal system is making a $1bn push to “crush liberal dominance” across corporate America and in the country’s news and entertainment ...