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UBS boss Sergio Ermotti plans to step down in April 2027

Race for coveted role comes as bank fights Swiss government over threat of more stringent capital buffers

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‘I don’t want to live in an American empire’: Greenlanders bristle at US threats

Inuit fear loss of language and traditions if Donald Trump succeeds in grabbing the vast Arctic island

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India needs to import more capital and export fewer workers

Despite strong headline growth numbers, the country is slipping from the global spotlight

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Trump’s new ‘great game’: Mining, mapping and mercantilism

The contest for resources between the US and China will continue after the president is gone and affect us all

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Defence jobs boom as Germany’s arms companies go on hiring spree

Data from selection of companies and start-ups suggests limited success in hiring from embattled auto sector

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Ethereum needs better decentralized stablecoins: Vitalik Buterin

It isn’t a good idea to fully back a stablecoin with a single fiat currency, because if that nation-state fails, so will the stablecoin, argues Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin.

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Elite German army unit accused of sexual harassment, drug use and making Nazi salutes

Scandal comes as Berlin tries to strengthen the military and boost recruitment

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Venezuela: the Hizbollah connection

Across thousands of miles, the Lebanese militant group forged illicit business links with a Caracas regime frozen out by the US

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Digital euro ‘only defence’ against deepening US control of money, economists warn

Academics including France’s Thomas Piketty press MEPs to resist ‘shortsighted’ lobbying against the project

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Why men should really be reading more fiction

Novels require a kind of attention that the modern world is steadily eroding

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