James Cleverly has taken direct aim at Kemi Badenoch’s decision to ditch net zero targets by criticising what he called “neo-luddites” on the right who seem scared of using green technologies to protect the environment. The senior Conservative MP, who lost to Badenoch in last year’s Tory leadership race, said it was a false choice…
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that its was “extremely hard” to make a deal with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, at a time when the White House has been suggesting the two leaders could talk this week amid rising trade tensions. Scott Bessent, U.S. treasury secretary, said Friday that trade talks were “a bit stalled,”…
Jessie J has said she has been diagnosed with early breast cancer and plans to undergo surgery after her performance at this month’s Summertime Ball. The Price Tag singer, 37, said in an Instagram video she has spent much of her recent time “in and out of tests”. “I was diagnosed with early breast cancer,”…
Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images Magic Eden, best known as a non-fungible token marketplace, said it has partnered with the team behind President Donald Trump’s meme token to launch an official $TRUMP-branded cryptocurrency wallet. Dubbed the $TRUMP Wallet, the product will feature the president’s name and likeness, as well as support trading of…
Independent Nicolette Boele has won the Sydney seat of Bradfield, defeating Liberal Gisele Kapterian with a wafer-thin margin of just 26 votes. The Australian Electoral Commission said Kapterian won on the initial distribution of preferences by just eight votes, before a recount was ordered. The final result, announced on Wednesday afternoon, showed Boele won following…
Two Chinese scientists have been charged with smuggling a toxic fungus into the United States that they planned to research at an American university, the justice department has said. Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, are charged with conspiracy, smuggling, false statements, and visa fraud, the US attorney’s office for the eastern district of…
The Toyota Industries Corp. logo at the company’s Nagakusa plant in Obu, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Toyota Industries slumped as much as 13% Wednesday, after Toyota Group’s reported 4.7 trillion yen ($33 billion) deal to take the company private. This deal comes at a time when Japanese firms…
The Australian economy has had an underwhelming start to the year, with growth of just 0.2% in the first three months of 2025 compared to 0.6% in the previous quarter. Annual growth was steady at 1.3%, the new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed. Katherine Keenan, the ABS’s head of national accounts, described…
Anna Barclay | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform moved a step closer to having a bitcoin exchange-traded fund available to everyday investors. NYSE Arca, the all-electronic arm of the New York Stock Exchange that handles most ETF trading, filed on Tuesday to list a bitcoin fund linked to the president’s media company,…
Israel hit southern Syria with a series of strikes overnight from Tuesday into Wednesday, saying it had targeted weapons belonging to Syrian authorities after the launch of projectiles towards its territory Israel launched the two attacks after reporting projectiles had been fired from Syria on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for…
