UK Financial Services Firms Sharpen Staff Scrutiny as New Misconduct Regime Looms July 20, 2026 By Kirstin Ridley and Phoebe Seers Financial firms in Britain are sharpening their focus on employee conduct, with some weeding out staff suspected of misconduct such...
Iran Renews Attacks on Gulf States After Another Night of US Strikes July 18, 2026 By Jana Choukeir and Eman Abouhassira Iran launched more attacks on Washington’s Gulf allies on Saturday after a seventh straight night of U.S. strikes targeting Iranian...
Rhine Rises After Rain, but Low Levels Continue to Hinder Shipping July 17, 2026 Water levels on the Rhine in Germany have risen after rain in the south and are forecast to rise further...
US, Iran Each Attack Infrastructure in Risky Escalation of Conflict July 17, 2026 By Jana Choukeir The United States struck bridges and an airport in Iran on Friday and Tehran responded by hitting a power and...
Global Energy Security at Risk if Strait of Hormuz Does Not Open in Weeks: IEA Chief July 17, 2026 By Timothy Gardner If the U.S. and Iran do not increase oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz soon, the world should worry...
London Broker Howden Plots Giant Capital Raise on IPO Path July 17, 2026 By Leonard Kehnscherper Howden Group, the London-based insurance broker that’s chasing an initial public offering by 2030, is in talks to raise several...
Wife of Ryanair Passenger Partially Sucked Out of Plane Window Recalls Incident July 17, 2026 By Ivana Sekularac and Alexandros Avramidis Svetlana Maksimovic and her husband Ljubisa Karovic had just settled into a Ryanair flight last week when a loud bang...
Drones, AI and White Paint: Europe Races to Protect Infrastructure From Heat July 17, 2026 By Alexander Gudbrandsen, Sam Tabahriti and Giulia Segreti As Europe’s railways buckle under record heat, roads melt and power grids strain, countries are turning to an array of...
China Sends Robots Into the World to Learn How to Be Human July 16, 2026 In an industrial park on the outskirts of Beijing, a humanoid arm picks up a bag of Lay’s potato chips...
Iran, US Step Up Attacks, Though Release of American May Signal Path to Climbdown July 16, 2026 By Nayera Abdallah and Jana Choukeir Iran and the United States exchanged intensified fire on Thursday in a week-long escalation that has all but torn up...