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Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as UK braces for first interest rate rise in over three years UK government bond prices are also rallying today.
A little-known investment group has made a bid to buy the business.
Future brightens for US developers in particular after election when voters rejected Trump’s war on clean energy After years as collateral damage in Donald Trump’s war on climate action, the Democrats’ sweeping triumph i…
Democrats’ success was helped by popular anger over tech, AI and the super rich – life for billionaires could become much more difficult The photo of Silicon Valley centi-billionaires at Donald Trump’s inauguration – Mus…
Gordon Brothers still in ‘active discussions’ with interested parties and seeks to ‘protect as many jobs as possible’ The US owner of Poundland has said the high street chain remains “challenged and vulnerable” after hol…
Victor Wembanyama had 24 rebounds and 52 points as the San Antonio Spurs recorded their sixth straight win in the NBA.
Wong, 30, is among hundreds of Hongkongers detained under the controversial national security law.
He had told his employer, an Australian restaurant, that pineapple on pizza was "offensive" to Italian culture.
Wong, in prison since 2020, was found guilty of colluding with foreign entities in violation of national security law.
Seoul proposes extending its Cheonghae unit’s patrols to waters near Oman’s Duqm amid US pressure over Iran war.
Nearly 200 countries pledged to limit warming to 1.5C. We look at who has delivered and who has fallen short.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz expects US President Donald Trump to keep bypassing Congress despite midterm losses.
The American singer-songwriter and poet visited with the American pope at the Vatican during a break between concert dates in Italy. The Vatican said the encounter was brief.
All-round upgrades fit a bigger OLED screen in a smaller and lighter body with water resistance for first time The new iPad mini takes Apple’s fan-favourite tiny tablet and upgrades just about everything about it, includ…
Victor Wembanyama had career highs of 52 points and 24 rebounds along with eight blocks to power the Spurs past the Mavericks on Wednesday night.
LeBron James is cautioning against any proclamations the 76ers are NBA Finals-bound despite a blistering 8-1 start.
Miami star Malachi Toney has a high ankle sprain and will have surgery, sidelining the receiver for Saturday's game against Notre Dame and beyond.
The Cardinals are finalizing a trade to send quarterback Jacoby Brissett to the Ravens, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter and NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.
Sources said Wednesday was the first time some players had seen Jalen Hurts since he was put on injured reserve because of blood clots in his lungs.
Democrats will hold Congress but President Donald Trump still has the power to block their plans.
Wong was sentenced for his second conviction under a Beijing-imposed national security law, in a case that critics say reflects the crackdown on the city's once-thriving pro-democracy movement.
Delivering net zero also at risk, say MPs as they call for centralised policy and funding for mines and diversification The UK is “dangerously” dependent on China for critical raw materials needed for the military, renew…
Pound reaches highest level against a basket of currencies since the Brexit referendum a decade ago.
The vice-president's blunt assessment of Republican election defeat marked one of the sharpest breaks with a sitting president in recent memory.
The tech billionaire set spending record as he poured $446m into campaigns for failed Republican candidates Elon Musk set a record for election spending this year after pouring nearly half a billion dollars into backing…
The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams.
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
Most analysts are predicting an increase from 3.75% to 4%, the first increase in more than three years.
Even for countries where typhoons are a way of life, the last few months have brought unusually wild weather.
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line.
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics.
Musk spent nearly $500m in the 2026 US midterm elections, an individual election spending record.
Historically, most physicians who served in the House or Senate have been Republicans. In the next Congress, physicians who are Democrats made significant gains.
Minister hints at restriction on selling technology ‘to certain users’ amid worries over surreptitious filming of women The government is considering placing restrictions on smart glasses amid concerns the technology is…
AT&T's smart home security system now integrates with Gemini for Home. The company says its Connected Life system is the "first" home security product to integrate with Google Home Premium, enabling a bunch of Gemini-pow…
Nothing CEO Carl Pei said in a post on X that the company's launching its first AI device in December. That's just a little over a year after Pei announced plans for "AI-native" devices and an AI operating system.
Patient is in stable condition and will be transferred to a specialist ‘high consequence’ infectious disease unit A British healthcare worker with Ebola is being evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to t…
Democrats can vote legislation through. But Trump still has veto power.
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The number of deaths linked to cocaine use in England and Wales has nearly quadrupled in a decade.
The French Blood Establishment (EFS) said cold rooms storing blood were impacted by hackers.
Party expected to get less than a third of the vote amid frustration over water outages and power cuts The African National Congress is on course for a bruising result in South Africa’s local elections on Wednesday as vo…
Michigan's first Muslim senator-elect, Abdul El-Sayed, discusses his historic victory, an unlikely agreement with Trump on Israel military aid and the political divisions that remain.
Scientists have discovered a compound that transforms a natural muscle-repair protein into a more powerful version dubbed "Super HGF," more than doubling its ability to bind to a key receptor while protecting it from age…
Temperature and defrosting thresholds raised to ‘very high levels’ at three cold stores stocking vital blood products France’s national blood service has said hackers accessed control systems and boosted temperatures at…
From Kyiv to Moscow, and Tehran to Tel Aviv, all eyes were on the Democrats' big win as foreign powers weigh how a flipped Congress will affect international relations.
MIT scientists have challenged two decades of conventional thinking by discovering that flexible molecular connections, rather than rigid ones, can unlock entirely new ways to arrange nanoparticles.
Democrats have won the House and the Senate, taking full control of Congress for the first time since 2023. And history was made in several states. Here's what happened last night.
The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".
NASA is exploring a daring plan to save the legendary Hubble Space Telescope from its eventual fiery plunge into Earth's atmosphere.
For nearly 90 years, scientists believed magnetism fell into just two categories, but researchers have now confirmed a remarkable third type called altermagnetism.
On Wednesday morning, Delhi's air quality index reading stood at 377, in the "very poor" category.
Stanford researchers have discovered an AI-identified natural molecule that dramatically suppresses appetite and promotes fat loss in animals, potentially offering an Ozempic-like weight-loss treatment without common dig…
The prince says 2026 was the first summer he felt "worried about the scale of the wildfires".
Graduates are spending more time managing AI, but are they missing out on other work experience?
The aim is to detect hard-to-diagnose abdominal cancers, including liver, ovarian and pancreatic cancer, much sooner.
An engineer was contacted through a legitimate job-hunting platform and invited to bogus job interviews with fake company representatives, Binance says.
Supermarkets in countries including Ireland, Sweden and Belgium reported fridges being hiked in temperature on Monday.
A watchdog has criticised the lack of progress made by organisations in tackling climate change.
Researchers have been chasing the dream of a cancer vaccine for decades. Some recent successes with mRNA technology are garnering excitement from patients, doctors, government and investors.
Many people are swapping out their fluoride dental products for ones made with a mineral called hydroxyapatite. What do dentists say about it?
Concerns from staff, parents, carers or the child themselves will trigger an immediate escalation of care.
Sen. Chris Murphy is expected to fully recover from his stroke. The acronym BE FAST can help you remember the symptoms of stroke and what to do when it happens: Call 911 quickly.
It's been just over two years since the rise of Make America Healthy Again, or MAHA. How well is the Trump administration meeting its promises?
Saskia Reeves-Priestley didn't know she had a Vitamin D deficiency until she suddenly collapsed at work.
There is no end in sight for the drivers of illegal mining, while police action appears ineffective Cora Bailey has been encountering illegal miners ever since she first started treating injured animals in the townships…
Critics cite Lana Nusseibeh’s denial of accusations the UAE is fuelling Sudan war by supporting paramilitary RSF Members of the Sudanese diaspora and international human rights monitors have denounced the candidature of…
Chomping on vegtable skins, seeds and stalks could give us vital fibre, say food scientists.
Warnings of escalating clampdown on press freedom come after Cairo court convicts Attalah of managing an unlicensed website Lina Attalah, a prominent Egyptian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the news outlet Mada Ma…