Month: April 2026

Argentina’s poverty rate fell last year to its lowest level since 2018, a major victory for President Javier Milei even as progress against inflation stalls. Since becoming president in 2023, Milei has overseen a remarkable turnaround of South America’s second-biggest economy: His cuts to subsidies and pensions have led to ...

Germany’s economy minister said her country should rethink its opposition to nuclear energy, saying it leaves Europe’s biggest economy vulnerable to fossil fuel price swings. Her remarks to the Financial Times are one of a number by senior officials scrambling to address the energy upheaval caused by the Iran war, ...

Brent crude fell below $100 a barrel while Asian and European stock markets rose after US President Donald Trump said the war in Iran could end in “two or three weeks.” Trump — who is due to deliver a national address later today — said that “we have had regime ...

We need a 5% wealth tax on America’s 938 billionaires. Over a ten-year period, this bill would raise much-needed $4.4tn for public coffers Never before in American history have so few had so much wealth and power. Today, the top 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. One person, ...

It comes as UK-US relations have been strained by the PM’s refusal to be dragged further into the Iran war. ...

Artemis II is close to launch – Simon King explains the critical importance of the weather to its success. ...

The corporation also says it is “doing more work to understand the detail of what was known by the BBC”. ...

The online listing portal is now being pursued in a class action, launched on behalf of potentially hundreds of estate agents. ...

Baidu has not responded to a request for comment about the outage, which affected at least 100 cars. ...

It’s a turnaround for Beijing, whose official response has been muted so far. Why is China stepping in now? ...