Giles Whittell

Donald Trump removed any remaining doubts that he is serious about steep new tariffs on Chinese imports on Friday by asking Robert Lighthizer to return as his trade representative.

Warren Buffett is in the remarkable position of being able to buy a $100 billion company with cash if he wanted to. Or two of them. Or three. The world's most admired investor has been selling off shares to amass a record $325 billion cash pile (much of it not in fact in cash but 10-year US treasury bonds), and the

It's not at all clear that the tech titans who donated so heavily to Trump's campaign will be thanked with light touch regulation.

Four years ago VW said it was spending €73 billion electrifying and digitising its product range. Last year it said it would spend about another €125 billion by 2028.

The man in charge of Saudi Arabia's colossal effort to draw people and money to a new city in its arid northwest has been sacke d

Four candidates with minimal qualifications but maximum loyalty to Trump could lead huge federal departments

Deputy Editor Giles Whittell They weren't a disaster first time around, but they could be next time

The Arecibo Message, sent from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, was directed at a star cluster called Messier 13 about 25,000 light years from Earth.

Two months before handing power to Donald Trump, President Biden has U-turned on Ukraine's use of long-range ATACMS rockets against military targets on Russian territory. He now says he'll allow it.