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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Aug. 27 reiterated his promise to build 1.5 million new homes during the current parliament. Representative | Image: Pexels

Fixing the UK's housing mess will require some government firepower. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has pledged to boost the supply of cheap homes and shake up planning laws. But relying on private housebuilders may only go so far, and the sector's share prices are not pricing in a boom. Starmer will also need to use public funds.

Oil’s supply-demand seesaw just took a lurch down. Brent crude prices have dropped from $81 a barrel to $73 since last week, driven by weak economic data and an apparent resolution to a Libyan supply crisis. That creates a headache for Haitham al-Ghais, secretary-general of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Abstract Zinc finger protein 263 (ZNF263) is frequently upregulated in various tumor types; however, its function and regulatory mechanism in colorectal cancer (CRC) have not yet been elucidated.

Few Western corporate chieftains command as much attention in China as Bernard Arnault. The 75-year-old boss of $340 billion LVMH routinely rubs shoulders with senior government officials and was the talk of Chinese social media during a whirlwind trip to the People’s Republic in June 2023. Even so, the French luxury giant could get sucked into China’s ongoing faceoff with the European Union.

Rupert Murdoch is in a similar position to a London buyer trying to get on the housing ladder. The tycoon’s online property listing company REA Group on Monday outlined a third attempt to buy Rightmove , valuing the UK’s largest online real estate listing portal at 6.1 billion pounds ($8.1 billion). As with property transactions in the UK capital, an offer can simultaneously be generous and not a

Even so, the French luxury giant could get sucked into China's ongoing faceoff with the European Union. China-EU trade spat's next swipe may hit LVMH | Image: Unsplash

Israel killed Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on the group's central headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

Imagine the scene. It is September 2025, and U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping emerge from the former’s palatial mansion into the Florida sun to announce the “Mar-a-Lago Accord”. Forty years after the United States and its trade adversaries signed the Plaza Accord in New York’s Plaza Hotel to sanction a concerted devaluation of the dollar, the world’s two superpowe

Patrick Pouyanné is used to coping with tricky circumstances in emerging markets. The TotalEnergies CEO was one of the few western bosses to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative in 2018 in the immediate aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents. And he took his time to pull out of Russia after its war with Ukraine. Even so his company’s close relations with Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, who is facing U.S. bribery charges, still constitute a challenge.