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.
  • New Delhi, India - As hopes dim of further contact with India's Moon rover, the country's space chief has said he...

    Rover Pragyan -- "Wisdom" in Sanskrit -- surveyed the vicinity of the Moon's south pole but was powered down before the start of lunar night

    "It is OK if it does not wake up because the rover has done what it was expected to do," ISRO chief S. Somanath told reporters late Wednesday

  • Benghazi, Libya - Libya's prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of four more officials, bringing to 12 the number held as...

    The four additional suspects, including two members of the Derna municipal council, were arrested for suspected mismanagement

    Flooding caused by hurricane-strength Storm Daniel tore through eastern Libya on September 10, leaving at least 3,893 people dead

  • Peaceful protests have swept Sweida province, the heartland of the country's Druze minority, since President Bashar al-Assad's government ended fuel...

    An activist and a witness told AFP that between 2,000 and 2,500 people took part in Friday's protests, some chanting anti-government slogans and waving Druze flags.

    Protests against deteriorating economic conditions have erupted sporadically in the province in recent years.

  • PARIS, FRANCE - Europe must invest more quickly and massively in its energy transition if it wants to remain a global...

    Europe must invest more quickly in its energy transition if it wants to remain a global industrial power, top policymakers said.

    Private sector investment faces barriers including policy uncertainty, bureaucratic red tape and higher energy costs, they said.

  • Vienna, Austria -- Qatar Friday called for intensifying international efforts to subject all Israeli nuclear facilities to International Atomic Energy...

    Qatar said this demand was confirmed by international legitimacy resolutions half a century ago, including the resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly since 1974.

    Qatar said AEA's subjecting Israel to comprehensive safeguards regime is a prerequisite for establishing a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East.

  • RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA - Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi said that preliminary free trade agreement...

    The agreement was signed by GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi and Pakistani Commerce Minister Dr. Gohar Ejaz.

    The Secretary-General stressed that the GCC countries are proceeding with free-trade negotiations with other countries.

  • The 82-year-old leader of Ennahdha was sentenced to one year in prison on terrorism-related charges in May following his arrest...

    He is the most prominent of roughly two dozen opponents of President Kais Saied arrested since February, including former ministers and business figures.

    Ghannouchi "decided to begin a three-day hunger strike to denounce the arbitrary and unfounded prosecution of the opposition", said Imed Khemiri, Ennahdha spokesman.

  • PARIS, FRANCE - Wavering ambition by governments and a growing belief that science is politically subjective are great causes for concern...

    Several extreme weather events have occurred in 2023, which the European Union's climate monitor says is likely to be the hottest in human history.

    These underscores the urgency of slashing planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions to avert the catastrophic impacts of greater global warming.

  • State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said that the State Department has not formally assigned blame but had no reason to...

    Microsoft revealed in July that a Chinese hacking group had breached its email platform and accessed messages from around 25 organizations including US government agencies

    "It was approximately 60,000 unclassified emails that were exfiltrated as a part of that breach," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters

  • Washington, United States - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and India’s External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar held discussions in...

    The corridor comprises two separate routes: the East corridor connecting India to West Asia/Middle East and the Northern corridor connecting West Asia/Middle East to Europe

    A critical component of this initiative is a rail line that, upon completion, will establish a reliable and cost-effective cross-border ship-to-rail transit network