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Rishi Sunak has finally approved Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list, which includes appointments for Tory MPs and a senior official who worked in Downing Street during the partygate scandal. The former prime minister nominated several senior Conservative MPs who are his allies. Jacob Rees-Mogg, Conor Burns, and Simon Clarke were knighted, while Priti Patel and

Two top lawyers defending Donald Trump against allegations he mishandled classified government documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate abruptly dropped out of the case a day after being notified of a pending indictment against their client. The departure of Jim Trusty and John Rowley comes only days before the former president is due to face criminal charges

The White House released new details of deepening co-operation between Russia and Iran on military drone production, including the supply route Iran uses to send its unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the front lines in Ukraine and the site of a possible Russian factory to produce them. The information is part of a steady stream of

The writer is former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe and author of ‘War with Russia’ Truly, the horsemen of the apocalypse have descended upon Ukraine. With the Kakhovka dam breach, Russia has seemingly added a grotesque act of environmental terrorism to brutal occupation, the continuing loss of a generation of young Ukrainian men and women

Odey Asset Management has lost another key relationship, as French brokerage Exane decided to cut ties with the hedge fund after a Financial Times investigation alleged its founder Crispin Odey had sexually assaulted or harassed 13 women.  The hedge fund has told clients it is in “active discussions” with all of its service providers as

François Hollande has a ring on his finger, and he’s proud to show it off. Recently married for the first time, the former French president, whose colourful love life was among the many distractions in a spectacularly unpopular presidency, feels liberated. Six years have passed since his fateful decision not to seek re-election in the

Apple finally revealed the $3,499 Vision Pro, its long-awaited “mixed reality” headset, this week. It conjured up many descriptions — a “spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world”, a “personal movie theatre with a screen that feels 100 feet wide” — but one word remained glaringly absent: “metaverse”. The metaverse, a

After news broke on Tuesday that the Barclay family’s titles might be seized by Lloyds Banking Group, there was a sense of shock for some in the Telegraph newsroom. “I haven’t quite woken up to the fact that we no longer report to a Barclay for the first time in 20 years,” said one senior

So here’s a thought. Instead of pushing ahead with a technology that its leading inventors say could soon have the power to kill humans, how about not pushing ahead with it? This radical notion is prompted by a warning from the man setting up the prime minister’s artificial intelligence task force. Matt Clifford observed that,

At the dawn of the Cable News Network, back in 1980, founder Ted Turner had his team film a military band’s rendition of Nearer, My God, to Thee. The hymn, also played as the Titanic was swallowed up by the Atlantic Ocean, was to be the last thing CNN aired in the event of the

European stocks slipped at the open on Friday as traders were cautious ahead of the policy meetings of key central banks next week, while the Turkish lira hit a fresh low after the appointment of new central bank governor. Europe’s region-wide Stoxx 600 shed 0.1 per cent while France’s Cac 40 fell 0.2 per cent.

UBS has finalised an agreement with the Swiss government that will provide the bank with up to SFr9bn ($10bn) to protect it from losses on the rescue of Credit Suisse. The loss protection agreement is the final hurdle for UBS to cross before completing the takeover early next week. In talks with Swiss authorities over

The UK government has introduced a price floor for the windfall tax on oil and gas producers, arguing that it is necessary to support investment and boost the country’s energy security. The tax rate, which was raised to 75 per cent last year at the peak of the energy crisis, will revert to the pre-crisis

Norway’s government is readying plans to open an area of ocean nearly the size of Germany to deep-sea mining as it seeks to become the first country to extract battery metals from its sea floor. The country’s energy ministry is racing to submit to parliament in the next two weeks a proposal to open the

It was late Tuesday afternoon when a group of senior executives from the Related Companies, one of New York’s largest property developers, ascended the Edge observation deck atop 30 Hudson Yards to show off what is typically one of the city’s grandest views. They were startled by what they found. “You can’t see anything right

What should a peppercorn taste like? Last year, I sat on my sofa surrounded by lots of small jars, listening to spice expert Ben Hitchcock talk about aroma, texture and colour. By the end of the Zoom call, I understood the theory. I could crush a peppercorn and look for the oils, crunch it between

For a century, a concrete blight has been spreading through American cities. And now, for the first time, new data is allowing us to measure its toll. “At the centre of our biggest cities, some of the most valuable public land on earth has been exclusively reserved for the free storage of private cars,” writes

The founder of Starling Bank stepped down as chief executive following a row with investors over a more than £1bn fall in the valuation of the digital lender. Anne Boden, who founded Starling in 2014, said last month she would step down at the end of June to remove any potential conflict of interest stemming

When Donald Trump was indicted in Manhattan in March with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, his supporters rallied around him. Buoyed by the backing of former and current elected Republicans — including some of those challenging him for the party’s presidential nomination in 2024 — Trump’s standing in national opinion polls surged after

Donald Trump said on Thursday evening that he had been indicted on federal charges in connection with classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, the latest legal woe to hit the former US president as he mounts another White House run. “The corrupt Biden Administration has informed my attorneys that I have been

Joe Biden welcomed Rishi Sunak to the White House on Thursday, as the two leaders began a joint press conference following a bilateral meeting in Washington. Biden, the US president, joked the UK prime minister was “probably tired of meeting” him after several sit-downs between the two leaders in recent months. Biden said on Thursday