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. The BBC launched its first TV services 90 years ago today, and what better way to mark the anniversary than the latest David Attenborough-narrated series about life in the oceans. “The trouble with making two incredible, groundbreaking television series about life in the oceans is that it sets a ...

African lenders launched a $5 billion energy bank focused on oil and gas projects, as the continent tries to break its costly dependence on fuel imports. African countries have been hit hard by surging global energy prices this year, which have strained public coffers and prompted several to announce plans ...

Drilling is imminent at Namibia’s Mopane oil deposit, TotalEnergies CEO Patrick Pouyanné said, putting fresh capital into the southern African country that has emerged as one of the industry’s most closely watched exploration frontiers. Namibia has attracted other energy majors, including Shell and BP, with a series of large offshore ...

Several hacks on government infrastructure underscored growing worry over the use of AI to undermine cybersecurity. Both Ukraine and Russia said their emergency alert apps were breached and used to send false warnings of missile and nuclear attacks: “It’s the first time it’s happening to an official Ukrainian information app,” ...

A shortage of oil and gas workers in Venezuela is holding up investment and frustrating Washington’s plans to tame soaring fuel prices. Decades of mismanagement and corruption have hollowed out Venezuela’s oil industry, while a government crackdown and an economic crisis led to a mass exodus. Spurred by the Trump ...

China’s manufacturing growth slowed in October, raising fears in a country that has grown reliant on exports to drive economic growth. Intense domestic competition has pushed producers to cut prices, moves that will likely anger China’s trading partners that are already frustrated by a flood of imports they say is ...

Amena’s view The drums of war are beating again, and the oil-exporting states are bracing “for the worst,” as the UAE’s presidential advisor Anwar Gargash recently put it. Eight months into the US-Iran war, one lesson is clear: There is no amount of operational resilience that can shield energy infrastructure ...

Google parent company Alphabet launched its second euro bond sale this year, testing a market that is growing increasingly wary of the AI trade. The move comes amid early signs that investors are approaching the limits of how much debt they can absorb: Morgan Stanley said AI-related borrowing ballooned to ...

Megan Cunningham, an advertising industry veteran and founder of Magnet Media, is on Monday launching Magnet Originals, a brand to help established personalities grow their media empires and to incubate the next generation of stars. Former TikTok executive Dustin Goot and former Vice exec Subrata De are both joining in ...

The News When Tucker Carlson co-founded the Daily Caller in 2010, it was to be the Republican Party’s answer to The New York Times. A few identity crises later, the publication has followed Carlson into a hard turn against Donald Trump’s war in Iran, and against Israel — choices that ...