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.
  • The Taliban celebrated the US withdrawal, which was completed on Monday, as a major victory after taking control of Afghanistan...

    Talks are ongoing as to who will now run Kabul airport.

    Qatar has urged the Taliban to ensure "safe passage" for people still desperate to flee.

  • Putting a monetary value on nature means that damaging resources such as breathable air and drinkable water becomes not just...

    Experts are divided on how to measure "natural capital", and some argue that it should not be done at all.

    As the IUCN World Conservation Congress kicks off in France on Friday, conservation of nature will remain an urgent question.

  • Environmentalists had voiced anger over the plan to ship Emirati crude to Israel's Red Sea port of Eilat.

    Ilan Sztulman Starosta, who heads Israel’s first consulate in Dubai, expects the trade between the two countries to surpass $1 billion within a year.

    About 200,000 Israelis have visited the UAE since the establishment of ties.

  • The phone call between Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince and Turkish President marks the highest-level interaction in years

    The phone call between Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince and Turkish President marks the highest-level interaction in years

    The two sides have backed opposing sides in the Libyan conflict and sparred on other regional issues

  • Amir-Abdollahian attended a summit in Baghdad on Saturday alongside regional leaders and Macron, the only leader from outside the region.

    Amir-Abdollahian attended a summit in Baghdad on Saturday alongside regional leaders and Macron, the only leader from outside the region

    Iran and France, alongside Britain, China and Germany, are the remaining parties to the troubled 2015 Iranian nuclear deal

  • The Egyptian boy snatched from his mother by two masked men while buying grocery has been reunited with parents, after...

    Video footage captured the terrifying moment two men snatched an eight-year-old boy from his mother’s side on an Egyptian street and bundled into a car

    his desperate mother falling to the floor as she tried to stop her son’s captors from escaping

  • After the complete withdrawal of the US forces, questions remain as to who will run the security of the airport...

    Turkey had offered to run security following the withdrawal of foreign troops, but the Taliban are averse to any foreign military presence in Afghanistan.

    US officials have said the airport is in a bad condition, with much of the basic infrastructure of the airport degraded or destroyed.

  • The World Bank has already called Lebanon’s economic crisis one of the worst in the world since the mid-1800s.

    Just food for a family of five in the country costs five times the minimum wage

    The Lebanese pound has degraded to around 10 percent of its value against the dollar since November 2019

  • A new report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed unequivocally that the climate is changing faster than...

    Daily temperatures in Dubai regularly top 40 degrees Celsius for several months of the year and are exacerbated by high humidity.

    Calls to reduce carbon emissions pose major economic challenges for oil and gas-rich Gulf countries.

  • Taliban fighters swept into the airport and fired weapons into the sky in jubilation as the last of the American...

    US president Joe Biden will be addressing the nation.

    All eyes on how the Taliban handles its first few days with sole authority over the country.

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