E.ON will hit nearly 2m households with a 4.8% price rise, as it became the first of the big six suppliers to put up energy bills for a second time this year. Some of the German firm’s...

Department stores group Debenhams has issued its third profits warning this year, with its chief executive, Sergio Bucher, saying he sees no improvement in the “exceptionally difficult times” on the UK high street. The company first warned on...

An internal Lloyds Banking Group report written by a former manager at the bank and published on Tuesday alleges serious misconduct by the lender over the handling and disclosure of fraud at its HBOS Reading unit. The report,...

The head of Nato has warned that the deep divisions between the US under Donald Trump and its European allies are not going away and there is no certainty that the transatlantic relationship and its military alliance will...

A teenager sang a few lines of a Socialist song before asking the French president: “How’s it going, Manu?” Monsieur Macron was not amused. French President Emmanuel Macron scolded a teenage boy on Monday after he...

Yua Funato was repeatedly beaten and starved, but the pleading messages she left her mother and step-father have shaken a nation that used to pride itself on the importance of family and community. Julian Ryall reports....

The attack of two men wearing kippas– also known as yarmulkes – on a street in Berlin caused outrage in Germany. The suspect is in court on charges of hate speech and aggravated assault. The trial...

Five political parties proposed changes to Bosnian electoral law to avoid an institutional crisis scenario in which October’s general elections go ahead without any legal basis for electing the Federation entity parliament’s upper chamber. MPs in...

Efraim Zuroff, the head of the Nazi-hunting Wiesenthal Centre, arrived in Zagreb in July 1998 to find the city gripped by a celebratory frenzy as Croatia beat Germany in the quarter-finals of the football World Cup...

With its hot dry summers, Kosovo has long been known as a good land to cultivate wine but – until recently – small fruits did not feature much in the country’s agriculture. This is changing, however,...