Europe

H&M said price cuts and cold weather were to blame for a slump in profits at the start of the year, and warned more discounting would be needed to lift flagging sales at the fashion group. Pretax profit...

France has honoured its heroic gendarme Arnaud Beltrame, who died saving hostages’ lives at a supermarket siege last week, with all the respect, gratitude and emotion the grieving country could muster. In a state ceremony that conveyed...

Nobody in Miskolc can say with certainty that they have ever seen a migrant or a refugee in the city. A few residents think they might have seen one or two people back in 2015 but...

At least 64 people including many children were killed in Sunday’s blaze in the town of Kemerovo in central Russia. Thousands of people have been separately demonstrating against local authorities. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday...

As the spring sunshine beams down on the honey-coloured buildings of Bordeaux, few of the tourists on the terraces pay much attention to the sticker on the lamppost. “Parisien rentre chez toi,” it declares – “Parisian...

Moscow will respond harshly to a US decision to expel 60 Russian diplomats, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, has said, but added that it was still open to strategic stability talks with Washington. The US...

In the first decade of the 20th century, Standard Oil was as mighty as the tech giants of Silicon Valley are today. The company had grown from a single refinery in Cleveland in 1863 to produce...

By Nils Pratley Anne Stevens, the chief executive of GKN, did not have to retract all her weekend statements. One that stands – and is obviously correct – is that hedge funds “could not give a crap”...

Protests over Emmanuel Macron’s university reforms threaten to spread to faculties across France after outrage following the violent breakup of a student sit-in in Montpellier by masked men with bats and sticks. Around 50 students had been staging a...

The US, EU, Canada and Ukraine have ordered the expulsion of dozens of Russian diplomats in response to the nerve agent attack in the UK, in a show of solidarity that represents the biggest concerted blow...