The future queen’s links to Jeffrey Epstein, and her son’s rape trial, have disappointed many Norwegians. But there is still widespread support for the monarchy.

Despite their name, which derives from an archaic 18th-century term, rare earths are abundant across the planet. Opening a viable rare-earth mine is difficult. Mines can take years before becoming productive. This fixation on mining ignores the industry’s dirty little secret: It is tremendously wasteful. The United States has immense quantities of rare earths and other critical minerals sitting in thousands of mining waste sites.

Think of Donald Trump as an energised particle colliding with a sensitive geopolitical nucleus

Agency’s report comes week after MSCI warned of south-east Asian country’s ‘investability’

Immigration is a central battleground in Sunday’s election despite its vital role in the world’s fourth-largest economy

The prospect of disruptions from artificial intelligence has hung over the economy for years. But this week advances in software tools precipitated a sell-off on Wall Street.

Carmaker admits it ‘overestimated the pace of the energy transition’

Ali Ansari’s Hilton Hotels in Frankfurt and resort in Mallorca have been removed from platform

Probe into €460mn scandal finds industrial group failed to act on warnings from employees for more than a decade

MPs and aspiring politicians appear to have been duped in an audacious scam that has stunned the nation