A shareholder of Arconic has filed a lawsuit in the US accusing the company of defrauding shareholders over its supply of cladding panels used at Grenfell Tower, the London high-rise where at least 80 people died in a fire last month.

Liberal democracy faces a new and decisive challenge — figuring out how to deal with the “post-Communist oligarchies” of Russia and China.

GERMAN engineering giant Siemens is pulling out of Sudan on moral and political grounds, its chief executive Klaus Kleinfeld has said in a magazine interview.