Foreign

By FT Swiss prosecutors have begun a criminal investigation into the Formula One bribery scandal, potentially opening another front in the legal battles being fought by F1 chief executive Bernie...

HELEN ZILLE, the leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa’s main opposition party, was invited to speak in Johannesburg on October 17th about her party’s chances at elections expected...

By FT Japanese gangsters are poised for a credit crunch after the country’s top banking lobby declared it was fed up with yakuza members defaulting on car and small-business loans...

By FT The government shutdown sabotaged a crucial month of data and dealt a blow to the world’s largest economy but the US Federal Reserve could still begin reducing its...