International

British house prices showed a small gain in June from May but the impact of higher borrowing costs is still weighing on the property market, according to mortgage lender Nationwide. ...

Oil prices extended gains to two-month highs on Tuesday on expectations of rising demand during the summer driving season and possible supply disruptions from Hurricane Beryl. Brent crude futures rose 70 ...

The international rating agency S&P Global Ratings has revised to positive its outlook on the subsidiaries of Freedom Holding Corp. — Freedom Finance Europe Ltd (Freedom24), Freedom Finance Global ...

British consumers increased their borrowing in May by the most in four months after a dip in April, Bank of England data showed on Monday, adding to signs of recovering ...

The euro climbed on Monday after a convincing and historic win by the French far right in the first round of parliamentary elections fell slightly short of some expectations, leaving ...

By Maria Demertzis The European Union’s fiscal framework, the European Commission’s attempt to coordinate the fiscal positions of member countries, will be reinstated in September for the first ...

EU-funded researchers are taking technologies known as “smart wearables” to the next level. By Jessica Berthereau What do cycling, showering and making love have in common? All three activities prove ...

Data centres and electric vehicles are expected to ramp up US power demand by about 300 terawatt-hours (TWh), equivalent to the electricity consumed annually by Turkey, by the end of the ...

US oil and gas companies could face an uphill struggle to sell about $27 billion of assets to fund investor payouts over the next few years as the biggest wave of ...

Microsoft faces a hefty antitrust fine after the European Commission this week accused it of illegally linking its chat and video app Teams with its Office product, giving it an ...

Google will showcase artificial intelligence features, and updates to its Pixel devices and the Android platform at a special event on Aug. 13, according to invites shared online by the Verge ...

Social media platform Reddit said this week that it will update a web standard used by the platform to block automated data scraping from its website, following reports that AI ...

OkSeven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector’s first trade group, they said this week. The ...

A union representing Hollywood film and television crew said on Tuesday it has reached a tentative three-year deal with major studios that includes agreed-on pay hikes and guardrails against the ...

Nvidia (NVDA.O) short sellers have raked in nearly $5 billion in paper profits from the AI chip designer’s sharp selloff over just three sessions earlier this week, according to ...

Turkey’s finance minister said on Friday “we succeeded”, a remark that appeared to indicate the international crime watchdog Financial Action Task Force is about to announce the removal of ...

British manufacturing orders contracted in June at a reduced pace compared with a month earlier, despite a sharp drop in export orders, according to a survey from the Confederation of ...

Hit with Chinese tariffs, Australia’s wine industry struggled to offset the impact of falling exports despite scrambling to build new markets, source grapes from elsewhere and seek government help, ...

Fisker filed for bankruptcy protection last week, the latest electric-vehicle startup to succumb to fundraising difficulties, slow sales, as well as supply chain and distribution challenges. Demand has been weak ...

China’s BYD launched its third electric vehicle in Japan, it said on Tuesday, a sedan that will be its most expensive model so far in a market where consumers ...

Ariana Resources, which owns 61 per cent of UK-registered Venus Minerals, which focuses on copper-gold assets in Cyprus, has announced its final audited results for the year ended December 31, 2023. The AIM-listed ...

Boeing has offered to acquire Spirit AeroSystems Holdings in a deal funded mostly by stock that values its key supplier at about $35 per share, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar ...

The global commercial shipping industry could cut down its carbon emissions by 47 million tonnes per year by deploying artificial intelligence for sea navigation, a study by autonomous shipping startup Orca ...

Greener sensors, circuit boards and other electronic devices are being developed by EU researchers to reduce unsustainably high levels of e-waste. By Michael Allen To develop eco-friendly electronics such as ...