The struggling retailer Mothercare is to cut 900 jobs, 100 more than previously announced, as it put its Children’s World subsidiary into administration. The move comes after landlords rejected the company’s proposals for rent reductions for Children’s World stores...

UK private equity firm Better Capital’s sale of airplane parts firm Northern Aerospace to a Chinese buyer has fallen through after regulators did not issue approval following an investigation into national security concerns. The UK Competition and...

Government consultations between Germany and China in Berlin on Monday aim to send a signal of closer bilateral cooperation in light of a worsened trade spat with the US. But some hurdles have yet to be...

The whole world appears to be following the rescue of 12 boys from a cave in Thailand. This says a lot about the human condition at a time when we risk sinking into cynicism, writes DW...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed a Eurosceptic junior housing minister, Dominic Raab, as Britain’s new Brexit Secretary. The 44-year old Raab was a prominent Leave campaigner ahead of the Brexit vote. Britain’s ex-housing minister...

Authorities in Thailand have resumed a rescue mission to extract nine members of a boys’ football team trapped inside a flooded cave. The mission commander said he expects “good news in a few hours.” The second...

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on Monday bowed to government pressure to dismiss the chief anti-corruption prosecutor, Laura Codruta Kovesi, whose fight against high-level graft had angered the ruling party. Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis bowed to government...

Western Balkan and European Union leaders meet in London this week for a summit that could be a chance to revive stalled reforms and focus attention on critical issues. Unfortunately, there is every chance it will...

The past 12 months have seen another landmark verdict convicting a senior Bosnian Serb figure of involvement in the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II – Ratko Mladic, the former commander of the Bosnian...

Continuing the Berlin Process, European and Balkan leaders will meet in London on Monday to discuss ways to improve growth in the region, strengthen security and achieve reconciliation. The fifth Western Balkans Summit opens on Monday...