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The highest inflation in four decades is lashing consumers and pushing up prices for all of life’s necessities, not to mention the extras. Rising interest rates are pummeling the housing market, and war, extreme weather and extreme politics — not exactly the stuff of holiday spirit — are dimming the economic mood.

After the worst year for global stocks in more than a decade, and a rout in bonds that’s unmatched this century, some investors aren’t prepared to take anything for granted in 2023.

The enormous winter storm that’s battered a vast swath of the US and Canada is still grounding flights and keeping holiday travelers off the roads. It has also knocked out power to millions of people as temperatures plummet.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine is bracing for “different variants of actions” by Russia after a meeting on Friday with his top military commanders.

Soaring natural gas prices offset by increased output of Britain's growing wind turbine fleet

Covid infections are surging in Beijing, disrupting official government work and keeping people at home after authorities made an about-turn in their policy of keeping virus cases under control.

Firms that make sweets, cakes and soft drinks are paying far more than normal to source sugar, raising the risk that some may go out of business

Two senior Bangladeshi opposition leaders have been arrested by plainclothes police officers as part of a crackdown ahead of a planned demonstration in the capital on Saturday to force Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to step down and call for elections.

Privacy advocates have warned — and police reports have verified — that AirTags can be used to track people without consent

It has been the most volatile year on record for fuel prices, Competition and Markets Authority acknowledges