INSEAD Day 4 - 728x90

BYD logs record EV sales in 2025

It sold 2.26m EVs vs Tesla's 1.22 by Sept end.

Google to invest $6.4bn

The investment is its biggest-ever in Germany.

Pfizer poised to buy Metsera

The pharma giant improved its offer to $10bn.

Ozempic maker lowers outlook

The company posted tepid Q3 results.

Kimberly-Clark to buy Kenvue

The deal is valued at $48.7 billion.
  • Turkey, which played a central role in forging the now shaky three-week-old ceasefire, is pushing for Muslim nations to bring...

    Turkey, which played a central role in forging the 3-week-old ceasefire, is pushing for Muslim nations to bring their influence to bear on the reconstruction of the territory

    Brokered by US President Donald Trump, the October 10 ceasefire has been tested by fresh Israeli strikes and claims of Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers.

  • President Donald Trump alleged Sunday that countries including Russia and China have conducted underground nuclear tests unknown to the public,...

    "Russia's testing, and China's testing, but they don't talk about it," he told CBS's "60 Minutes" program, in an interview released Sunday

    "I don't want to be the only country that doesn't test," he said, adding North Korea and Pakistan to the list of nations allegedly testing their arsenals.

  • Syria's president will discuss issues including lifting remaining sanctions, reconstruction and counter-terrorism when he becomes the country's first leader to...

    Ahmed al-Sharaa is expected in the US capital in early November, Syria's top diplomat Asaad al-Shaibani told a panel at the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain

    On Saturday, US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack said Sharaa was heading to Washington "hopefully" to sign an agreement to join the US-led alliance against the Islamic State

  • Busan, South Korea -- Rows of coffins line a university classroom in the South Korean port city of Busan, ready...

    Single-person households now account for around 42 percent of all homes in Asia's fourth-largest economy.

    A new profession has emerged reflecting that statistic: cleaners who are called in to tidy up homes after their occupants, most of whom lived alone, have died.

  • Nabatieh, Lebanon -- Hundreds of people gathered in south Lebanon's Nabatiyeh on Sunday to mourn five Hezbollah members killed in...

    On Saturday, an Israeli strike killed four people in Kfar Rumman, Nabatiyeh district, the Lebanese health ministry and the Israeli military said.

    The men's coffins were draped in Hezbollah's flag while mourners threw petals and chanted "death to Israel, death to America".

  • "By destroying buildings... we will not be set back," said Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, in a visit to the country's...

    Pezeshkian's comments came as Oman, Iran's traditional intermediary, urged the two countries on Saturday to resume talks.

    Oman hosted five rounds of US-Iran talks this year. Just three days before the sixth round, Israel launched its strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities.

  • Since April, the V8 group -- comprising Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman...

    As in previous months, the V8 group is likely to cite "low oil inventories" worldwide to justify a further increase in production quotas.

    In late October, pressure on Russian oil supplies mounted after the United States hit the country's two biggest oil producers -- Rosneft and Lukoil -- with sanctions.

  • The UN Security Council voted Friday in favor of a resolution backing Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara as the...

    Western Sahara is a vast mineral-rich former Spanish colony that is largely controlled by Morocco but has been claimed for decades by the pro-independence Polisario Front

    The Security Council had previously urged Morocco, the Polisario Front, Algeria and Mauritania to resume talks to reach a broad agreement

  • After two years of war, the ruined cities of Gaza, a densely packed territory home to more than two million...

    After two years of war, the ruined cities of Gaza, a densely packed territory home to more than two million Palestinians, are littered with military debris

    In the streets of Gaza City, children play with rocket parts and the tail fins of mortar shells, oblivious to or unbothered by the danger

  • The announcement came in the wake of Russia saying it had tested a nuclear-powered and nuclear-capable torpedo, as well as...

    The last US nuclear test explosion was in September 1992, a 20-kiloton underground detonation at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site.

    Then-president George H.W. Bush imposed a moratorium on further tests in October 1992 that has been continued by successive administrations.