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Experts have predicted a “buyer’s market” for house hunters in the year ahead, giving them greater negotiating power as the mood of the housing market shifts to “cautious optimism”.

However, even the more hopeful expectations for 2025 were met with caution, as an important

stamp duty

One of Venezuela’s most celebrated musicians, the pianist Gabriela Montero, has called on concert halls and music promoters to cut ties with her country’s world-renowned youth orchestra as a result of Nicolás Maduro’s alleged theft of this year’s

presidential election

The Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela …

In the days leading up to Christmas, stout-lovers were left reeling from a nationwide

shortage of Guinness

Supermarkets remain at risk of running out due to customers’ …

In the summer of 2020, as the Covid-19 pandemic upended economies around the world, an obscure US software firm decided to diversify. MicroStrategy, whose head office is situated next to a shopping mall and metro station in Tysons Corner, Virginia, had decided the steady business of “software as a service” …

China’s economy

Using his annual address to the nation, Xi sought …

Europe will receive the last Russian gas sent via Ukraine’s pipelines in the early hours of the new year as the continent braces for a plunge in temperatures that could hasten the drain on reserves of the fossil fuel.

The Russian state energy company, Gazprom, is expected to cut its …

The UK’s blue-chip stock index has recorded its strongest annual gain since 2021, despite lagging behind Wall Street over the past year.

The FTSE 100 index, which tracks the largest companies listed in London, posted a rise of 5.7% for 2024.

Having begun the year at 7,733 points, the FTSE …

Last week, we looked back at how 2024 made Elon Musk the world’s most powerful man. Today, we’re looking at a few other important themes that will influence the online and offline worlds in 2025.

Tech takes a legal beating

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Travel north on the east coast mainline, the main London to Edinburgh route, and you may spot the gift John Smith received from colleagues last year.

The huge sign, which stands metres away from the line just north of Peterborough station, carries the Sunderland AFC emblem alongside two arrows, one …

Working from home could harm women’s careers because they are less likely to come into the office than their male colleagues, the boss of Britain’s biggest building society has warned.

Debbie Crosbie, the chief executive of Nationwide, said the fact more women have taken advantage of flexible working – as …