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.
  • Lebanese leaders firmly rejected any efforts at foreign interference during a visit by Iran's security chief Wednesday, with the prime...

    The uncharacteristically blunt remarks hinted at a changed balance of power in a country where Iran has long wielded substantial influence by funding and arming Hezbollah

    The visit by Supreme National Security Council chief Ali Larijani comes after the Lebanese government ordered the army to devise plans to disarm Hezbollah

  • The approval for the expanded offensive comes days after Israel's security cabinet called for the seizure of Gaza's largest city,...

    Ismail Al-Thawabta, director general of the Hamas government media office in Gaza, told AFP on Wednesday that "the Israeli forces continue to carry out aggressive incursions."

    AFP footage from Gaza City on Tuesday showed Palestinians fleeing Israeli strikes on the Zeitoun and Asqoola using overladen carts, vans and bikes.

  • Zakopane, Poland -- Saudi photographer Fahad Alayyash gazed over the Alpine-like panorama of the Tatras, Poland's highest mountain range --...

    Up to seven flights fly daily from the Gulf region at nearby Krakow Airport.

    Arab customers constitute up to 30 percent of all summer guests at his five-star hotel in Zakopane.

  • Montreal, Canada - Palestinian-Canadian Faiza Najjar was able to leave Gaza last year, but could not bring her four adult...
  • For Palestinians, any effort to force them off their land would recall the "Nakba", or catastrophe -- the mass displacement...

    Past calls to resettle Gazans outside of the war-battered territory, including from US President Donald Trump, have sparked concern among Palestinians and global community

    Netanyahu defended his war policies in a rare interview with Israeli media, broadcast shortly after Egypt said Gaza mediators were leading a renewed push to secure a 60-day truce

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had scored a "personal victory" by getting invited to...

    Zelensky also ruled out withdrawing troops from Ukraine's eastern Donbas region as part of a peace deal, after Trump said he and Putin might negotiate a land swap to end the war

    The summit, set to take place in Alaska on Friday, will be the first between a sitting US and Russian president since 2021 and comes as Trump seeks to broker an end to Ukraine war

  • The London-based group also called for the "recognition of the State of Palestine", but added "this will not halt the...

    "What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide," it added.

    "Transfers of arms and weapons components to Israel must be suspended immediately," it added, saying Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be sanctioned.

  • Ali Larijani, the head of Iran's top security body, met with senior officials in Iraq on Monday, ahead of a...

    Tehran has suffered a series of blows in its long-running rivalry with Israel, including during 12 days of open war between the two countries in June

    Israel, briefly joined by the United States, struck Iranian nuclear facilities, while Israel has also devastated Hamas and Hezbollah since late 2023

  • London, United Kingdom - US President Donald Trump's media group and Tesla, the electric carmaker owned by tech billionaire Elon...

    Companies frequently own bitcoin to take part in sector activities such as "mining", which refers to the process of validating transactions in exchange for digital tokens

    Other players who had core operations totally unrelated to cryptocurrency, such as Japanese hotel business MetaPlanet, have switched to buying bitcoin

  • The United States on Monday toughened its terrorist designation of separatist militants in Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province who were behind...

    The State Department listed the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) as a foreign terrorist organization, which makes it a crime in the United States to provide support to the group

    Washington had already listed the BLA under the less severe label of specially designated global terrorists, which targets financial resources