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Published on 23/10/2026 – 9:54 GMT+2•Updated 10:04 RAYE has been crowned the winner of this year’s Mercury Prize, taking home the coveted statue for her second album ‘This Music May Contain Hope’. The British artist, born Rachel Keen, beat favourite Olivia Dean, as well as JADE, Florence + The Machine, the War Child ‘Help (2)’ compilation album and Paul McCartney – who was shortlisted for the first time, aged 84, with his new record, ‘The Boys of Dungeon Lane’. The judges praised ‘This Music May Contain Hope’, which features the hit single ‘Where Is My Husband!’, for combining old-school Hollywood…
Ukrainian drone units started testing speed limits from Thursday evening, shortly after Trump told reporters that Musk had restored Starlink. While some tests recorded speeds of up to 200 km/h over the Black Sea and noted an improvement, the drones still rapidly lost signal once flying above the 160 km/h speed limit. “So, the key point is: We accelerate above 180 km/h, fly for a couple of minutes, the connection drops. It falls to 140–150 km/h and then is re-established — but the situation is better,” a drone pilot from Ukraine’s top drone unit known as Magyar’s Birds told POLITICO.…
In Keelung, enormous waves crashed against the shore, while emergency workers cleared fallen branches and debris from streets in the capital. One person was killed after being swept away by waves on Liuqiu island on Thursday, while 94 others were injured. Schools and offices closed, while 931 flights were cancelled, including all 262 domestic services and 669 international flights. At Taipei’s Songshan Airport, departure counters stood empty and stranded passengers rested beneath screens displaying cancellations. Champi had weakened from peak sustained winds of 298 km/h earlier in the week to 155 km/h as it approached Taiwan. Authorities evacuated nearly 1,300…
Sweden-based carmaker Volvo Cars said on Friday it would cut about 2,500 jobs worldwide, as US tariffs and strong competition from local brands in China pushed it into a third-quarter loss. The company, majority-owned by Chinese group Geely, reported revenue of 66.9 billion kronor (€6bn) for the third quarter, down nearly 23% from the same period last year. It swung to a net loss of 5.7 billion kronor (€513mn) for the quarter from a net profit of 4.5 billion kronor (€405mn) a year earlier. “We continue to operate in a very tough environment with strong external challenges: de-globalisation, hypercompetition and…
France has been having a bad time of late, and it’s not just because of riots, fires and looting — incidentally, if anyone wants 250 slightly singed Paris Saint-Germain football jerseys and several dozen boxes of apéricubes, please look for me on eBay. The droughts and heat waves that battered Europe mean strict production rules for some of France’s most famous cheeses were loosened. Comté, Beaufort and Abondance — not a French kids TV series about three dairy-loving glove puppets but rather cheeses made out of milk from cows that graze in the mountains and carry the appellation d’origine protégée…
Published on 23/10/2026 – 8:00 GMT+2 The EU must turn its offer of “associate membership” to Canada into a meaningful partnership that goes well beyond trade, Tobias Cremer, the European Parliament’s standing rapporteur on Canada, told Euronews. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become the EU’s first “associate member” in September, but gave little indication of what the unprecedented status would mean in practice. The offer comes as geopolitical upheaval draws Brussels and Ottawa closer together. Canada is embroiled in a trade war with its traditional US ally, while the EU is struggling to keep Washington…
Marathon Fusion, a small fusion energy company in San Francisco, announced on Wednesday that it had transmuted, or converted, mercury into stable gold last month, beating a record set by CERN tenfold. The Geneva-based organisation runs the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. The claim, which has not been independently verified, revives an alchemist’s dream and a market fear that lab-made gold could do to bullion what lab-grown precious stones did to diamonds. Founded in 2023 by Kyle Schiller and Adam Rutkowski, a former SpaceX engineer, Marathon develops fuel systems for future fusion power plants, which aim to generate electricity by…
But the student-led movement is “heavily depersonalized,” said Novaković, and is focused on issues with broad electoral appeal. “They managed to create a single unitary platform which is mainly centered around issues related to the rule of law. All the issues that previously divided the Serbian electorate were not in the cards,” he added. The government’s first line of attack against the growing political movement was to argue that students could not run a country. So the protesters built a list of hand-picked candidates, including doctors, engineers and professors — people who made their careers outside of politics. “Many people…
Security companies from 33 countries gathered in Doha this week for Milipol Qatar, displaying drones, robots and AI systems as the country reviews its defences following the Iran war. The three-day exhibition, which ended Thursday, covered equipment for policing, emergency response and industrial safety, along with discussions on cybersecurity and protecting essential services. Alexandros Lakatamitis, general manager of West Bay Petroleum, which brought drones to the exhibition, said government and industry customers were taking security more seriously. “The security bubble that we’ve enjoyed for so long is no longer there,” he told Euronews. Lakatamitis, who grew up in Qatar, said…
Asian shares were mostly lower on Friday after the latest sell-off in artificial intelligence stocks weighed on markets around the world, giving the benchmark S&P 500 its worst day since July. Oil prices were hovering at their highest levels since May on worries about the war with Iran, with Brent crude trading at $113.73 per barrel early Friday, up 0.5% after a 4% jump in the previous session. Brent settled at $113.17 on Thursday. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate crude rose 0.6% to $100.08 per barrel. Oil rallied on Thursday as deadly attacks in Saudi Arabia fuelled concerns that a…