Category: 3. Europe

Want to read a contrasting view on the insightful opinion piece you just found? Traditionally, you would have had to find another publication with a different political slant and search for an op-ed on the same topic.

Those days might be numbered as a new feature on the Los Angeles…

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) says the volume of trade in goods worldwide is likely to decrease by 0.2% this year due to US President Donald Trump’s shifting tariff policies and a standoff with China, but it would take a more severe hit if Trump carries through on his toughest…

The S&P 500 was down 0.9% in early trading. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 180 points, or 0.4%, as of 3:35 pm CEST, while the slide for Nvidia and other stocks in the chip industry dragged the Nasdaq composite down a market-leading 1.7%.

Nvidia was the single heaviest…

Germany-based mobility platform Freenow has been acquired by US ride-hailing specialist Lyft from BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz Mobility in a deal worth €175 million.

Nasdaq-listed Lyft, which is one of the major rivals to Uber in the US, said…

Navigating bedtime with a teenager is, in many homes, a nightly battle with a constant refrain: “Get off your phone! Go to bed!”

But bedtime routines aren’t just for toddlers. Teenagers need them too, says Denise Pope, an expert on child development and a senior lecturer at the…

Toys and other Chinese products made up the largest part of 4,127 instances of dangerous non-food products alerted to the EU’s Safety Gate market tracker last year – the highest number of alerts since the rapid alert system was put in place in 2003, and double the figure seen…

A recent amendment to Peru’s Forestry and Wildlife Law is drawing fierce backlash from environmental and Indigenous groups that warn it could accelerate deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.

The amendment eliminates the requirement that landowners or companies get state…

The UK has put a temporary ban on travellers from Europe (including returning British citizens) bringing meat and dairy products into the country.

The restrictions came in on 12 April in response to the uptick in cases of foot-and-mouth disease on the continent.

Visitors in…