Bloomberg Markets
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure said wildfires in the southwest are a major economic setback for the region as businesses and tourists were forced to evacuate.
Bloomberg Markets
SoftBank Corp. is getting closer to acquiring SP.LINKS Inc. after securing preferred bidder status for Blackstone Inc.’s payments service provider, people familiar with the matter said.
Hollywood Reporter
"Actors are often told to stay out of legal arguments... But we have spent our lives on enough U.K. sets, worked alongside enough U.K. crews [...] to know that this is not someone else’s argument. It is ours."
BBC Sport
Fifa president Gianni Infantino tells critics to "meditate, pray or watch a football match" instead of "spreading hate and false rumours" about him and the World Cup.
The Guardian Politics
Defence secretary Wes Streeting says the country will see a prime minister that ‘runs towards big and difficult issues’Good morning. Yesterday Wes Streeting, the defence secretary, told Sky News that, while Andy Burnham spent his first week as PM focusing on cost of living issues, this week the public would see “a prime minister that runs towards big and difficult issues rather than runs away from [them]”. Those challenges include reforming social care and, as Peter Walker reports, Burnham has p
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Filled with shots of emerald pastures and gambolling animals, this documentary shows that challenging accepted practices can benefit animals and the environmentA new addition to the ranks of neo-rural cinema that is getting its hands dirty with the realities of the modern countryside, this mellow Scottish documentary lauds the emerging practice of cow-and-calf farming. It focuses on Rainton Farm in Dumfries and Galloway where, instead of the dairy-industry norm of separating calves from their mo
The Guardian Culture
Show will exhibit 18 works never shown before in the UK, and offer deeper insight into an often misunderstood artistAs soon as Georgia O’Keeffe was shown Ghost Ranch, she knew it was her place.The remote property in the shadow of the mountains north of Santa Fe in New Mexico would become the artist’s summer residence for decades – a setting that fascinated her, inspired several paintings and is where her ashes were scattered. “I knew the minute I got up here that this was where I would live,” sh
The Guardian Health
New research reveals deep anxieties. Medals and cash bonuses have been mooted as incentives, but the real need is for women to have their feelings valuedIt seems as though every week brings another news story on declining global birthrates. A number of political leaders have been panicking for a while, of course, instructing citizens to reproduce in tones so beguiling, who could possibly resist? JD Vance: “I want more babies”; Jacob Rees-Mogg: “We need more babies”. While in France this year, a
The Guardian Culture
The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answersThe AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s “humanity”. She means that while we often speak of AI as though it were some mystical, formless thing, it is the product of hours of human labour, in silicon and quartz mines, microchip factories and data labelling centres. If citizens want to wrest power from the te
Bloomberg Markets
The birth of national market liberalism.
Bloomberg Markets
It’s pretty obvious by now that globalization has fallen out of favor. And while many pundits have deemed economic globalism dead, we are still figuring out what to call this new era. Branko Milanovic’s chosen phrase is “national market liberalism,” a term that sums up how a world once defined by the free movement of capital has begun to contract as the most powerful governments have come to favor mercantilism and nationalism. In his new book, The Great Global Transformation: The United States,
The Guardian
The royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion is this week examining security arrangements for the Jewish communityThe deputy commissioner of New South Wales Police has pushed back at calls for the private security sector to be armed at Jewish events.The royal commission into antisemitism and social cohesion has been examining security arrangements for the Jewish community in this block of hearings, with some witnesses lobbying for the Community Security Group (CSG) to be armed in t
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino has launched a scathing attack on critics of the 2026 World Cup, accusing them of being "consumed by hate" and saying they should "reflect, meditate, pray, or watch a football match."
Bloomberg Markets
AT&T Inc. has opened books on a five-part euro and pound sterling bond offering.
BBC Sport
Images are released of a man thought to have attacked another man at the World Darts Championship.