"It has been stronger than expected in the first half across the board," Niels Christiansen said, adding that the family-owned Danish company expected double-digit growth for the full-year. "It's not one particular market, it's not one particular p...

In Xabi Alonso’s first match as manager, Chelsea beat Fulham 3–2 in the Premier League.

At the break Sooriyabandara was batting on 65 with Dhananjaya de Silva on four, with Sri Lanka trailing by 373 runs after India posted 503-9 declared in their first innings. Resuming on their overnight score of 8-2, Sri Lanka were in early trouble ...

Gross domestic product grew 0.3 percent from April to June compared with the first three months of the year, according to revised data from the statistics office Destatis. A first estimate in July had put growth at 0.2 percent. "The German econo...

"If we have a summer like this next year, by God, it's going to be a struggle," said Dillamore, who has spent more than 20 years tending the gardens of the Baroque and Tudor red-brick palace where King Henry VIII once caroused. Created by master de...

Beloved at home and abroad, the "Nightingale of Beledougou" has spent a lifetime carrying the traditional music far beyond her homeland, fighting to keep it alive in the modern world. At Bamako's Palace of Culture, Bagayoko spun like a top, her kne...

Deep-sea mining seeks to tap previously untouched seabed deposits of a range of commodities, including cobalt and nickel, but the fledgling industry has long been stalled by environmental concerns. The government certificate issued this month is th...

Only a few transits per day Before Iran blocked the strait in response to joint US-Israeli strikes in February, around one fifth of the world's oil and liquefied natural gas exports passed through the waterway. Iran's Guards have also warned of a "...

With the war against Tehran in its sixth month, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the White House was declaring an "economic D-Day" on the Islamic republic and threatened to hit countries that trade with it. The threat comes with talks to reope...

The Islamic republic, which Netanyahu has long cast as an existential threat, has not only survived but appears emboldened. Underlying Netanyahu's dilemma have been the wild swings in the approach of US President Donald Trump, who joined Israel in ...

Around 40,000 employees of a roughly 73,000-strong domestic workforce at the country's largest carmaker walked off the job on Friday, according to union figures, in the first such action for a decade. The union said on Monday that it had returned t...

Huanle's mother Wang Cong is a pastor at Zion Church, one of China's largest "underground" churches where some Christians choose to worship instead of government-regulated ones. "My child saw everything, she cried," said Ren Zhong, Huanle's father,...

The one thing he barely mentioned? The Iran war. Six months after launching what he expected to be a lightning offensive, Trump appears bored or even in denial about the conflict as it puts a drag on his second presidency. "Right now, the situatio...

Now, decades later and six months into the US-Iran war, some are seeing those same American troops as more of a liability than an asset, as their presence has put Kuwait in Tehran's line of fire. Since the Middle East conflict first erupted in late...

The phonebooth-sized machine, where jets of chilled air ensure ice-cold comfort, only launched this year but has proved popular in a country that seems to be getting inexorably warmer. "I was really able to recover thanks to that. Once you use it, ...