The fund manager is hoping that this year's robust growth figures will prove attractive to investors, but all bets will be off if the market ... more

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing had no doubt that the president would be a towering figure on the world stage. But on Thursday Europe's leaders turned their ... more

Football scandals had seemed to be increasing even before Friday's news of what Uefa, the sport's governing body in Europe, called "without a doubt the ... more

Italian group may not be glamourous but it has annual revenue of €6.2bn and net profit of €371m

A tearful Oprah Winfrey said she had decided 'after much prayer and months of careful thought' that the Oprah Winfrey Show would finish in 2011

For novelist NDiaye's defenders, it is not enough that politician Eric Raoult be wrong – he must be Hitler, writes Christopher Caldwell