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A Bloody 1870 Battle Lives On as a Weekend Reenactment Near Metz
The annual Gravelotte reenactment returns near Metz on 15–16 August, keeping alive a Franco-Prussian War battle whose me...
Mark Walter Sells Lakers to Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner After Less Than a Year
Billionaire investor Mark Walter bought the Lakers from the Buss family in 2025 for about $10 billion; his quick exit is...
French Mega-Universities Chase Shanghai Ranking Points Through Star Researchers
A Fields Medal for mathematician Hong Wang is boosting the institutions behind France's merged Paris-Saclay group as the...
Trump Orders Navy to Abandon Electromagnetic Catapults and Return to Steam on Carriers
The president's directive reverses a core Ford-class technology, potentially costing billions and unsettling France's ne...
Innate Pharma's Overnight €30m Capital Raise Sends Shares Down 18%
The French biotech priced a €30m equity raise at €1.70 per share, a 15% discount, to fund its IPH4502 ADC programme; inv...
OpenAI's Annualized Revenue Doubles to $40 Billion Ahead of IPO
The ChatGPT maker's run rate has roughly doubled since late 2025, powered by coding tools, subscriptions and an early ad...
Franklin Templeton CEE Director: Property Is for Living, Not Investing, in a War-Risk Era
Kamil Mikołajczak, CEE sales director at Franklin Templeton, explains what a middle-class 40-year-old should do with sto...
Trump Policy Digest: Visa Bond Fears, ICE Gloves and Sanctions Questions
Washington policy flashpoints span travel, immigration and sanctions enforcement, as the US travel industry warns on vis...
Etna Ash Grounds Catania Flights; Montenegro Tells Travellers to Use Palermo or Comiso
Volcanic ash from Mount Etna has suspended Catania Airport flights until Thursday afternoon, forcing diversions to Paler...
Montenegro's Growth Model Has Hit Its Limits, Chamber Chief Warns
Nina Drakić says consumption, tourism and imports delivered two decades of growth but left productivity below 2006 level...
Cl0p Claims Mass Data Theft From Nearly 50 Companies, Including Shell, Philips, Fiserv and GE
The ransomware group says it stole large volumes of data by exploiting software flaws, but company responses vary and Re...
GoDaddy Founder Bob Parsons on Psychedelics, Veterans and a $1 Million Golf Club
GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons credits the Marines for his success and says psychedelic therapy helped him 'come home' from...
Two Ex-NBA Players Plan 2027 WNBA Draft Bid to Force Eligibility Clarity
Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom say they will test the league's player-eligibility rules as the WNBA prepares to rev...
EU Pesticide Residue Plan Could Lift Coffee Prices 332% and Cut Farm Imports 41%
Brussels is weighing “technical zero” limits on banned pesticides in imported food. A Commission study says coffee could...
Croatia's Uljanik Sale Heads to Binding Offers, Iskra Taking a Look
Nine tender documents were sold ahead of the 18 August binding-offer deadline for Croatia's last state-owned shipyard, U...
Mozambique Cuts Foreign Card Payment Limit to €40,700 a Year
Banco de Moçambique has halved the annual cap on foreign card payments from €81,400 to €40,700 per cardholder, tightenin...
São Tomé President Dismisses Labour Minister Over Judicial Pressure Claims
The move follows a criminal probe into alleged attempts by officials to influence an extradition ruling involving a Chil...
Mozambican Author Puts Campus Sexual Harassment on the University Agenda Through a Novel
Sérgio Raimundo's new campus novel turns stories of sexual harassment and abuse of power into a public debate, with univ...
Perplexity Blocks Time's Markdown Ads and Calls the Practice Deceptive
Perplexity is blocking Time's markdown-based agent ads from its search index, warning of downgraded trust scores and set...
Walmart Connect finally lets advertisers exclude search terms
Walmart's retail media business adds negative keywords for sponsored products, giving brands more control over ad budget...
Anthropic Reportedly Targets $2 Trillion Valuation in October IPO
Shareholders are reportedly pushing for an October IPO valuing the AI startup at $2 trillion, a move that would leapfrog...
Florentino Pérez Books €23 Million Gain From ACS Incentive Share Sale
ACS chairman exercised 295,000 options at €31.55 and sold them at €110.23, while lifting his stake above 15% in a transa...
Ferrovial to Delist from Amsterdam as Nasdaq and Madrid Handle Almost All Trading
The infrastructure group will end its Euronext Amsterdam listing on 11 September 2026, saying the venue accounts for jus...
August 15 Horoscope Points to Career Gains and Spending Cautions Across Zodiac Signs
A syndicated horoscope for India's Independence Day holiday frames August 15, 2026 as a day to slow down, review money c...
India Rice Export Prices Hit Near One-Year High as Tight Supply Meets El Niño Fears
Indian 5% broken parboiled rice rose to $362–$368 per ton, with Vietnam and Thailand following higher as El Niño worries...
From a Hidden Shoe to the RBI Vault: The Strange Century-Long Journey of the Jacob Diamond
How a 184.75-carat Golconda diamond went from a disputed sale to the Nizam, a palace shoe, a paperweight and finally a R...
Ukraine's Air Defenses Are Running Dry as Russia Steps Up Missile Barrages
Kyiv says it has received only a third of the interceptors it got by this point last year, while Moscow fired 198 ballis...
Koenigsegg CCGT1 Revives the GT1 Racer That Never Raced — With 1,578 HP
The 70-unit CCGT1 is Koenigsegg's track-focused homage to its shelved 2007 CCGT, pairing a twin-turbo V8 with a new sequ...
Ford Reveals 784bhp Mustang Dark Horse SC Convertible
Ford has added a drop-top version of the 784bhp Dark Horse SC, using a detuned version of the GTD's supercharged 5.2-lit...
How a Small Slovak Team Built Piešťanské Zábaly Into a Summer Theatre Draw
The third Piešťanské Zábaly festival runs 21–23 August 2026 in Piešťany, bringing Goran Bregović, 31 comedies and a larg...