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Nvidia has recruited Wall Street to bankroll its own customers. The US chipmaker said last week it had signed memorandums of understanding with Wall Street’s largest asset managers, including Apollo Global Management, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield Asset Management, Goldman Sachs and KKR to raise upwards of half a trillion dollars for AI companies to borrow against, money that will buy its chips and build the servers that run them. The six firms will set up what Nvidia calls “compute financing platforms,” drawing on institutional money, insurance funds and private credit. Borrowers can use the proceeds for the chips as well as…
As the trend for digital nomads shows no sign of slowing down, Japan has dominated a new ranking of the world’s best cities for remote workers, with Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya all making the top ten. For modern nomads, finding the right city involves more than just checking whether the Wi-Fi works. Cost, things to do, work-friendly infrastructure and quality of life can all make or break a longer stay. To find out which cities offer the best overall setup, independent VPN review platform vpn.jpn.com ranked 104 of the world’s biggest cities, looking at the factors that matter most to…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 17:00 GMT+2 Britain’s hard-right Reform UK party has vowed to scrap benefits for foreign nationals as part of a proposed overhaul of the nation’s welfare system. The policy would include European Union citizens with settled status in the UK, meaning renewed negotiations would need to take place over the UK’s Brexit withdrawal agreement. Outlining the plan in a speech on Monday, Robert Jenrick, Reform’s economics spokesperson and Member of Parliament for Newark, pledged to put an end to what he called the “foreign welfare ripoff.” “The British taxpayer is acting as the welfare state for the…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 14:56 GMT+2 The UN human rights chief voiced alarm at the rising civilian toll of escalating hostilities in Yemen on Monday, urging efforts to avoid plunging the country back into full-scale war. Yemen, which has been embroiled in more than a decade of civil conflict, became the latest country to be dragged into the Iran war last month as the Tehran-backed Houthi group upended a 2022 truce with the Saudi-backed government, ramping up attacks on areas it holds. The latest violence has raised the spectre of a return to war in the Arabian Peninsula’s poorest country.…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 13:51 GMT+2 Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said at the weekend that Kyiv’s forces had hit Wildberries’ single largest warehouse, a 250,000-square-metre complex at the Koledino industrial park in Podolsk in the Moscow region, around 420 kilometres from the border. Seven logistics hubs belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer, have now been struck and knocked out of action since the campaign began in July. Wildberries confirmed the strike had sparked a fire and forced it to reroute its supply chains, just as Ukrainian forces also struck a second depot in nearby Domodedovo on the same night.…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:09 GMT+2 The government led by Delcy Rodríguez and sectors of the Venezuelan opposition have reached a rare consensus: to work together to recover the 31 tonnes of gold that Venezuela has kept in the vaults of the Bank of England for almost eight years. The United Kingdom stopped recognising the Venezuelan government in 2018, which in practice blocked access to those assets, now tied up in a legal dispute that has yet to be resolved. According to the joint statement released on Wednesday by both delegations, the funds are needed to support reconstruction after the…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:50 GMT+2 Gravity does not pull equally across the Earth and that has a visible impact on the shape of our planet. This summer, NASA released an eye-catching visualisation reflecting these differences across Earth. If the world’s oceans had no tides, waves, winds or currents, and were shaped only by gravity and Earth’s rotation, their surface would look slightly different. Rather than forming a perfectly smooth sphere, it would have subtle bulges and depressions. NASA’s visualisation magnifies these differences by a factor of 10,000 making Earth appear like an uneven potato. The geoid as it is…
In its early years, military bands from EU countries, Australia and Canada took part in Spasskaya Tower, though the number of international participants has declined since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to the festival’s Telegram channel, “the event has been postponed until 2027 due to circumstances beyond the organizers’ control.” The move comes amid an increase in Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian capital. Overnight, Kyiv’s forces launched one of the largest assaults on Moscow in recent months, with more than 600 drones directed toward the Russian capital and surrounding region. The strikes, which, according to Russian…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:10 GMT+2 At least three people were killed and a fourth is in a critical condition after a shooting on Sunday evening in Isla Cristina in the southern Spanish province of Huelva. According to local media, the attack took place in the Rocío neighbourhood, where a man turned up on a motorbike at a family home and opened fire on its occupants before fleeing. Among the dead are a pregnant woman, one of her children and the woman’s mother. The three bodies were left lying in the middle of the street after the burst of gunfire.…
Published on 17/08/2026 – 15:28 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump has threatened to launch strikes against Oman if it “gets in the way” of talks between Washington and Tehran over the Strait of Hormuz. “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s— out of them, Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Monday, as June’s US-Iran memorandum of understanding expired. Tehran has been locked in ongoing talks with Oman over establishing a secure passage for commercial shipping through the Strait, a strategic oil and gas transit chokepoint that connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of…