US pop star Taylor Swift was crowned the biggest-selling global artist of 2025, industry body IFPI announced Wednesday, the fourth consecutive year and sixth time she has claimed its annual prize. The 36-year-old’s success was turbo-charged by...
British bank executives were set to hold a first meeting on Thursday over a possible national alternative to dominant US payment systems Mastercard and Visa as President Donald Trump’s policies causes economic sovereignty concerns. The London...
Saudi Arabia’s state-backed artificial intelligence firm Humain said Wednesday it had invested $3 billion in US billionaire Elon Musk’s xAI. The investment made Humain a “significant minority shareholder”, the company said in...
Greece will claim a World War II photo trove posted for sale online believed to show for the first time one of Nazi Germany’s worst atrocities in the country, the culture ministry said Wednesday. Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said an...
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has held secret talks with a scion of Cuba’s communist Castro leadership as he intensifies pressure on the island, a report said. Axios, quoting unnamed sources, said Rubio has been speaking with Raul...
Eight migrants from Senegal, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia arrived in Cameroon on Monday after being expelled from the United States, sources told AFP Wednesday. Cameroon is the latest of several African countries to receive foreigners expelled under US...
Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let alone millennia. However, information written into...
Four Chagos islanders, who oppose Britain handing back the Indian Ocean archipelago to Mauritius, said they refused to leave despite a maritime patrol trying to evict them on Wednesday. Britain kept control of the Chagos Islands after Mauritius...
The French economy ministry said Wednesday that a hacker gained access to a national bank account database and consulted information on 1.2 million accounts. Since the end of January, the hacker used the stolen credentials of an official to access...
A shooting in a park in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato left one person dead and eight children wounded, local authorities said Wednesday. The attack late Tuesday in the city of San Francisco del Rincon claimed the life of a 36-year-old man...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived at a Los Angles court on Wednesday to testify at a groundbreaking social media addiction trial, over allegations Instagram and other platforms were deliberately designed to make young users addicted. The 41-year-old...
Spanish police said Wednesday they had arrested a 20-year-old man who allegedly hacked a hotel booking website to reserve luxury rooms for as little as one cent, in the first known cybercrime of its kind. The suspect is believed to have manipulated...
Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that Tehran was “drafting” a framework for future talks with the United States, as the US energy secretary said Washington would stop Iran’s nuclear ambitions “one...
A cyberattack against Germany’s state-owned railway Deutsche Bahn briefly disrupted ticketing systems and timetable information services this week, the company disclosed Wednesday. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack caused...
UK police Wednesday appealed for information to support claims of the trafficking and abuse of women to Britain which have emerged in the latest files on US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Police in Surrey, southeastern England, said they had become...
