Month: July 2026

More than one million people took to the streets of Mexico City on Tuesday to mark the country’s win over Ecuador. ...

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch criticised what she called a missing £5bn in the defence investment plan. ...

BBC Verify investigates whether a shortfall in funding for the government’s defence investment plan is a “black hole”. ...

Three teenage boys convicted of rape should have been detained, the Court of Appeal hears. ...

England saw its warmest June since records began in 1865 and the second warmest for the whole of the UK according to data just released by the Met Office. ...

The historic masterpiece will travel from France to go on display on UK soil for the first time. ...

The UAE’s oil exports hit a record high in June, as the country took advantage of its exit from OPEC and skirted Iranian threats in the Strait of Hormuz. UAE exports averaged 3.7 million barrels a day during the month, according to industry data cited by Reuters — significantly above ...

Kuwaiti telecom Zain Group plans to invest more than $1.5 billion over the next decade to upgrade and operate a mobile network in Syria, the latest in a series of Gulf investments since the fall of the Assad regime. The company will acquire a 75% stake in the existing MTN ...

Qatar overhauled its labor laws, adding for the first time provisions that allow for part-time and freelance work to be regulated, and others that make it harder to launch strikes. In changes the government said were aimed at “reinforcing the balance between the rights of workers and employers,” the maximum ...

The News Consultancy firm Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) aims to expand its Middle East business by as much as five times over the next few years, betting it can steal market share from rivals even as demand for advisory services shrinks. The firm is on track to double its Gulf ...