Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been ordered to serve a year in jail, in the latest blow to the powerful family that has dominated the country’s politics for the past 25 years.

Good morning. News overnight: France has lost another prime minister and Norway has narrowly re-elected its centre-left government. Here, our Paris correspondent lays out the options for embattled ...

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After a no confidence vote for François Bayrou, the French president starts the search for prime minister all over again ...

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Éric Lombard, France’s current finance minister, has pitched himself as someone who can serve as a bridge to the Socialists given that he used to be a party member. Lombard has the disadvantage of ...

French Prime Minister François Bayrou was ousted yesterday. He lost a confidence vote in parliament over his efforts to cut the deficit. This leaves President Emmanuel Macron scrambling to find a new ...

Developers are kitting out residential buildings to cater for the US’s fastest-growing sport — and the trend is spreading as far as Australia and Mexico ...

The UK — like every country — has passed from the comfortable post-cold war era into a multi-polar world plagued by confrontation and conflict. Rather than merely managing risks, we now face ...

BYD has predicted a bloodbath in the Chinese car industry in the wake of Beijing’s crackdown on aggressive discounts, warning that roughly 100 carmakers needed to be “pushed out” of the ...

The communist party’s anti-graft watchdog announced over the weekend that Yi’s father, ex-China Securities Regulatory Commission chair and party secretary Yi Huiman, was suspected of “serious ...

Ever since Harvard Business School’s John Kotter published his book Leading Change in 1996, managers have had at their disposal a plausible eight-step programme to help embed lasting change in their ...