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By Nils Pratley Chairmen, especially those embarrassed by the share price on their watch, feel obliged to examine any old merger or acquisition idea. But there are limits to what counts as credible and Barclays’ John McFarlane...

Mark Zuckerberg’s meeting at the European parliament ended in acrimony, amid a chorus of complaints that the Facebook founder had been allowed to evade questions and give vague answers. Over the 90-minute session the Facebook founder told MEPs there would...

The first privately-operated high-speed passenger rail service in the US now boasts a new connection to Miami. Daniel Hicks reports from Florida. Rick Rose owns the popular Grandview Gardens Bed & Breakfast andVacation Homes in West...

Officials say one person is in custody and a second person has been detained. US President Donald Trump has expressed “sadness and heartbreak” over the incident. A gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School in...

An airline passenger jet carrying 113 people has crashed shortly after takeoff. The Boeing 737 went down near the international airport of the capital, Havana. The jet was said to have crashed near to Havana’s Jose...

Donald Trump has threatened Kim Jong-un with the same fate as Muammar Gaddafi if the North Korean leader “doesn’t make a deal” on his nuclear weapons programme. The US president issued the threat at the White House when...

British supermarkets are selling thousands of tonnes of avocados produced in a Chilean region where villagers claim vast amounts of water are being diverted, resulting in a drought. Major UK supermarkets including Tesco, Morrisons, Waitrose, Aldi...

In a surprise policy reversal, Donald Trump said on Sunday he had instructed his commerce department to help get a Chinese telecommunications company “back into business”, after his government cut off access to its US suppliers. The US...

Ivanka Trump is in Israel for the inauguration of the US Jerusalem embassy on Monday, as protesters in Gaza prepare for a day of rallies along the frontier that are expected to be met with gunfire. The...

Leprosy may have originated in Europe rather than Asia, according to the largest study to date on ancestral strains of the disease. The study has revealed that more leprosy strains than expected were present in medieval...