Britain’s Sunak shuffles cabinet to bolster pledges on economy
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday, breaking up two departments to better suit his pledges to spur the economy and turn around his party’s fortunes ...
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Italy wants more money for Africa to curb arrivals in Europe
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will ask European Union peers this week to give more money to Africa and create “European humanitarian corridors” to curb irregular immigration, a document showed.
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Ukraine says Russians endure deadliest day as fighting intensifies
Ukraine said on Tuesday the last 24 hours were the deadliest of the war so far for Russian troops, as Moscow pressed on with an intensifying winter assault in the east ...
Google unveils ChatGPT rival Bard, AI search plans in battle with Microsoft
Google owner Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) on Monday said it will launch a chatbot service and more artificial intelligence for its search engine as well as developers, an answer to ...
BP profit soars to record $28 bln, dividend increased
BP (BP.L) on Tuesday reported a record profit of $28 billion for 2022, lifted by the surge in energy prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while boosting its dividend in ...
Hermes, NFT creator spar over ‘MetaBirkins’ in trademark trial
Hermes International SCA (HRMS.PA) urged a US jury on Monday to find that a creator of non-fungible tokens violated its trademark for Birkin bags, while lawyers for the “MetaBirkins” ...
UK energy support schemes’ cost halved as mild winter tames prices
Britain is likely to spend 69 billion pounds ($82.95 billion) on schemes to protect households and business from soaring electricity costs, half of the original estimate, a UK spending watchdog said, as ...
Rose eyes Ryder Cup return after first PGA win in four years
Britain’s Justin Rose has set his sights on making a push for Europe’s Ryder Cup team for this year’s event in Rome after he ended a four-year ...
Three drown, many feared missing in migrant shipwreck off Greece
Three people drowned and more than a dozen were believed to be missing in the second migrant shipwreck off Greece this week, authorities said on Tuesday.
The coast guard said 19 ...
Former Newcastle winger Atsu pulled alive from Turkey earthquake rubble
Ghana international winger Christian Atsu has been found alive after being buried under rubble in the earthquake that hit Turkey, the vice president of his club Hatayspor told media on ...
Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen in West Bank gunfight
Israeli forces killed a 17-year-old Palestinian on Tuesday during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, and the army described him as a gunman who ...
Russian reinforcements pour into eastern Ukraine, says governor
Russia was pouring reinforcements into eastern Ukraine ahead of a possible new offensive, said a Ukrainian governor, but British intelligence said on Tuesday it was unlikely that Russia would have ...
Hundreds still under earthquake rubble in rebel-held Syria – rescue workers (Update 2)
Time is running out to save hundreds of families trapped under the rubble of buildings brought down by Monday’s earthquake, the head of the Syrian opposition-run civil defence service ...
Turkey declares emergency as quake death toll passes 7,200 (Update 4)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by two earthquakes that killed more than 7,200 people and left a trail of destruction across a ...
Like Musk, nickel-rich Indonesia has high electric vehicle ambitions
Armed with the world’s largest reserves of nickel and a ban on the export of nickel ore, Indonesia is making itself indispensable for the electric vehicle industry, which uses ...
Doing too little is still bigger risk for ECB than doing too much: Holzmann
Inflation in the euro area remains far too high so the risk of the European Central Bank not raising interest rates high enough is still a bigger than that of ...
FBI charges neo-Nazi leader in plot to attack Baltimore power grid
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a neo-Nazi leader and his associate with plotting to attack Baltimore’s power grid, a plan the FBI thwarted with the help of ...
Turkey’s Ceyhan oil terminal, Iraq’s KRG pipeline halted after quake
A massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday halted operations at Turkey’s major oil export hub in Ceyhan and stopped key crude oil flows from Iraq and ...
India’s Adani crisis spills over into protests, losses top $110bn
The crisis engulfing the Adani Group intensified on Monday as hundreds of members of India’s opposition parties took to the streets to press for a probe into allegations by ...
Dollar’s gyrations raise hedging costs for US companies
Wild swings in global currencies hammered corporate earnings in the past year, and while forex markets have gotten less choppy, some companies are seeking ways to guard profits and lower ...
Leeds sack manager Jesse Marsch
Leeds United have sacked manager Jesse Marsch with the team 17th in the table, one place above the relegation zone, the Premier League club said on Monday.
Jesse joined Leeds ...
LeBron’s record chase the hottest ticket in Hollywood
It’s Oscars season in Los Angeles but instead of the red carpet all eyes are on the NBA hardwood where Lakers forward LeBron James is on the cusp of ...
How China’s balloon over America steered its way into spying history
When China’s suspected surveillance balloon first passed into U.S. airspace north of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28, American officials believed there was a good chance it would ...
Navas steals limelight on mixed weekend for January signings
Nottingham Forest have signed a mind-boggling 29 players since the summer in their bid to ensure their return to the Premier League is not a short one but perhaps the most ...