De Croo is fresh from the Munich Security Conference, at which Trump’s vice-president, JD Vance, sparked outrage by taking ...

The city’s Belle Époque streets were once Egypt’s nexus of cosmopolitan culture and society; their shine dimmed by ...

In recent years, Tesla has reversed the fortunes of the US car export market. In 2024, nearly 243,000 new registrations were ...

Yet in the tech sector the humanoid robot is the cultural handmaiden to another holy grail: artificial general intelligence.

Rules are the regular ones: identify the three charts below, email your answers to [email protected], putting “Quiz” in the subject line. We usually name everyone who gets all three correct so let us ...

Elon Musk has said US President Donald Trump backs his bid to distribute savings from a government cost-cutting drive directly to citizens, setting up a potential showdown with Republican deficit ...

Although Baltic Sentry is a Nato operation, it was conceived by Baltic Sea leaders at a meeting in Helsinki. Like Nordic Warden, it is an entirely European undertaking.

Both of the UK top 10 hits for Smokey Robinson and The Miracles have the word “tears” in the title: “Tears of a Clown” — and which other?

Also in today’s newsletter, Alibaba to ‘aggressively’ invest in AI, and Hong Kong’s low-tax appeal threatened by property slowdown ...

Compared with the Glasgow COP, last November’s COP29 in Baku had a much less upbeat mood. A UN-backed expert group made the case for a huge expansion in international climate finance for developing ...

Economists also cite lack of investment in human capital — including skills and development — as a key driver for low productivity. Another factor is the UK’s relatively low investment in research and ...

For an ambitious plutocrat like Elon Musk, such things are hard to tolerate. His social network X is reportedly looking to ...