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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...