With Japan charging an average tax rate of 1.9% on other countries’ goods and having a long-standing alliance with the US, ...

Yeyasso farming co-operative in Ivory Coast is trialling a new supply chain initiative that aims to increase the Fairtrade ...

Farmers, officials and industry leaders in Ivory Coast said fairer prices for cocoa are more urgent than ever before.

He emphasised that he bought Instagram and WhatsApp because he saw value in the companies, not to take out competitors.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping has promised Malaysia and Vietnam greater access to Chinese markets as he tours south-east Asia ...

Two Belgian teenagers have been charged with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test ...

A piece of semi-precious gemstone jewellery slated to sell for £8,000 has sold at auction for more than three times its asking price to an unnamed collector. Woolley & Wallis auctioneers sold a ...

Lawyers for hip-hop producer Sean “Diddy” Combs asked a federal judge in New York on Wednesday to delay his May 5 sex-trafficking trial by two months so they can better prepare a defence.

The findings have been released ahead of the NASUWT teaching union’s annual conference in Liverpool over Easter.

More pupils are missing out on extracurricular activities and school trips as parents cannot afford them, it has been suggested.

Simon Armitage has said he is “excited” to receive the freedom of the City of London, despite being a northerner all his life. The Poet Laurete, who was brought up in Marsden, West Yorkshire, attended ...

The British-American author found fame with her debut novel, A Woman Of Substance, and went on to write 40 novels.