The reforms to agricultural property relief (APR) and business property relief (BPR) mean farmers and agricultural landowners previously exempt from paying inheritance tax will, from April 2026, be ...

A severe labour shortage in Japan and higher wages have contributed to rising costs: the average minimum wage is set to rise by a record 5.1 per cent in the fiscal year to next March. Rising wholesale ...

Minecraft will come to life as theme park rides and leisure attractions, as one of the world’s best-selling computer games teams up with Merlin Entertainments to attract fans in the US and UK.

The upheaval at Thyssenkrupp, which has since appointed new steel leadership, has unsettled German authorities. Berlin and local authorities have together pledged €2bn to support the company’s ...

The G20 failure to make a direct mention of the need to transition away from fossil fuels in its leaders’ statement in Rio has escalated fears among key negotiators at the UN COP29 summit in Baku that ...

James Kynge talks to Marc Assinck and Jos Benschop of ASML, Sanjay Natarajan of Intel and the ‘Chip War’ author Chris Miller ...

Nestlé has cut its medium term profit margin outlook and announced the separation of its European bottled water business, as its new chief executive Laurent Freixe sets out his plan to turn around the ...

Donald Trump’s election as US president and his threats to impose sweeping tariffs on imports has given the EU fresh impetus to seal new trade deals. But at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro — ...

Alibaba, for example, is recruiting an AI team in Sunnyvale in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. It has approached engineers, product managers and AI researchers who have worked at OpenAI and the ...

Chturvedi said the Mumbai closures were only a blip in BrewDog’s India plans. He added that the local franchise was operationally profitable and would focus on the country’s north where it had two ...

Record numbers of US executives are selling shares in their companies, as corporate insiders from Goldman Sachs to Tesla and even Donald’s Trump’s own media group cash in on the stock market surge ...

The increased scrutiny of Chinese technology imports has already incentivised companies such as China’s CATL, the world’s ...