The Analyst

Barclays has staved off a challenge mounted by an activist investor at its annual meeting, but got a bloody nose from shareholders over its executive pay.

Barclays has scored a victory against activist investor Edward Bramson, who has conceded defeat in his attempt to gain a seat on the British bank's board.

A father's mammoth game of “pinch-punch” with his daughter reached new heights when he enlisted the help of an airline to catch her out.

Thursday's local elections saw both humans and their pets going to the polls.

More than 800,000 people have been evacuated along India's eastern coast as authorities braced for a cyclone moving through the Bay of Bengal that is forecast to bring “extremely severe”...

Ikea has appointed the third head of its UK and Ireland business in under two years, as the flatpack furniture store targets city centres.

Shares in Metro Bank tanked on Thursday after the lender revealed the impact of a major accounting error and subsequent investor cash call in what it described as a “challenging”...

Israel came to a standstill on Thursday morning with a two-minute siren wailing across the country in remembrance of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Gambling giant Paddy Power Betfair has seen revenues jump by almost a fifth, on the back of soaring online gaming growth.

Venezuelans heeded opposition leader Juan Guaido's call to take to the streets on Wednesday in a bid to force President Nicolas Maduro from power, but there was little concrete sign...

Wagamama and Frankie & Benny's owner The Restaurant Group has named former HBOS boss Andy Hornby as its new chief executive.

A shocked college community has paid tribute to a “hero” student who died tackling a gunman at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.

The wettest winter in a generation has revived Iraq's famous rivers and filled its lakes, bringing welcome relief to a country facing severe water challenges in the era of climate...

Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has appointed his consort as the country's queen ahead of his official coronation on Saturday.

A woman has been sentenced to death by lethal injection in Georgia for starving her stepdaughter to death.

THE Trump administration warned Russia to stop meddling in Venezuela yesterday and talked up likely US military action as protesters and security forces clashed for a second day.

Donald Trump's attorney general yesterday denied misleading the public over special counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russian election meddling, as a rift between the pair was laid bare.

Caster Semenya has lost her appeal against the IAAF's testosterone regulations after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in the governing body's favour.

French police fired tear gas to push back masked demonstrators in central Paris yesterday as thousands of people used an annual May Day rally to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's...

A group of Roman Catholic priests, academics and intellectuals have issued an open letter to bishops asking them to declare Pope Francis a heretic, in the latest broadside by ultra-conservatives...

A woman has been sentenced to death by lethal injection in Georgia for starving her stepdaughter to death.

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte lifted a campus lockdown yesterday, a day after a gunman killed two people and wounded four on the school's last day of classes...

Julian Assange has been jailed for 50 weeks for breaching his bail conditions after going into hiding in the Ecuadorian embassy in London while he was wanted over allegations of...