(Alliance News) - German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier has ordered the country's parliament to be dissolved and set new elections for February 23 in the wake of the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition....

(Alliance News) - The FTSE 100 index in London was called slightly lower on Friday, as investors digest holiday-season sales results in the US and UK....

(Alliance News) - The slump in the number of people heading to the shops during Boxing Day sales signals a return to declining pre-pandemic levels, an analyst has said....

(Alliance News) - UK shoppers are predicted to spend GBP236 each on average in the Boxing Day sales this year, with the majority of purchases made online....

(Alliance News) - Russia's "bloody and brutal war machine" has shown no respite "even at Christmas", UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, as he condemned strikes against Ukraine's energy grid....