Pollution kills at least 9 million people every year and “threatens the continuing survival of human societies,” according to research from a new landmark study. In 2015, almost one in six deaths – an estimated 9 million globally – were found to relate to pollution in some form. The research, published Thursday in The Lancet […]

European markets are expected to open higher Friday, as earnings season and political turbulence in the region continues to dominate discussion. Looking to the major bourses, the U.K.’s FTSE 100 is expected to open 30 points higher at 7,552, while the German DAX is set to start on a positive note, up 58 points at […]

There’ll be some big political changes taking place inside the inner chambers of the EU over the next few months, as officials decide who’ll take key roles at the helm of the euro zone bloc. Behind closed doors some names have started to emerge with the incumbents set to step down at the end of […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered one of her most positive assessments of Brexit talks in months on Thursday, saying she believed negotiations between the EU and Britain were moving forward and dismissing the prospect of a breakdown. Merkel made her comments after the first day of a European Union summit at which British Prime Minister […]

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May attempted to accelerate Brexit talks Thursday, but her European counterparts want to know how much London will pay to exit the bloc. May wrote a letter, published Thursday morning, reassuring all European citizens living legally in the U.K. that they can remain. “I couldn’t be clearer: EU citizens living lawfully […]

Spain’s central government has said that it will move to suspend Catalonia’s autonomy after the regional leader failed to drop a bid for independence. In a statement on Spain’s government website on Thursday morning, Madrid said that the Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont had refused to comply with a request to formally declare whether the region […]

As retirees approach their golden years, the reality of how much their mandatory pension will pay out starts to bite. UBS analyzed 12 cities across the world in order to try and identify where people could best enjoy their retirement. And in an attempt to apply their research universally to a typical retiree, the Swiss […]

Consumer goods maker Unilever reported a 2.6 percent rise in underlying third-quarter sales on Thursday, blaming poor weather in Europe and natural disasters in the Americas. That was down from 3 percent growth in the first half of the year. The maker of Dove soap and Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, which in February rebuffed […]

London Stock Exchange Group Plc said on Thursday that its Chief Executive Officer Xavier Rolet will leave the bourse operator by the end of December 2018, just under a decade after he took the helm at the firm. LSE said it would start looking for his successor now. The group also reported a 17 percent […]

Roche‘s third-quarter sales rose 6 percent, beating analyst forecasts as the company was helped by better-than-expected revenue from its new multiple sclerosis medicine Ocrevus,the Swiss drugmaker said on Thursday. Roche third-quarter sales were 13.1 billion Swiss francs ($13.37 billion), compared to the 13.04 billion francs average estimate by analysts in a Reuters poll. Sales of […]