Trump’s supposedly private-funded ballroom could cost US taxpayers $1bn
Tweety McTreason’s White House ballroom, which he said would be privately funded, could now cost the US taxpayer as much as $1bn.
NVIDIA takes warrants for $500m in Corning stock as fibre-optics partnership goes structural
The deal pairs a 15-million-share warrant at $180 with a pre-funded warrant for 3 million more, against a Corning commitment to build three new US
SpaceX files for a $55bn Texas semiconductor fab, with combined chipmaking investment reaching $119bn
The Terafab project sits alongside the existing Bastrop packaging operation. Combined, the two facilities could anchor a $119bn Texas chipmaking footprint. SpaceX has not yet
Four killed in post-election violence in India’s West Bengal
Unrest grips the key eastern state after Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP wins the state election for the first time.
Who is Zack Polanski, UK Greens leader and rising political star?
Polanski has been likened to New York’s Zohran Mamdani for his popular blend of environmental and socialist policies.
CNN founder Ted Turner dead at 87
No cause of death disclosed for media mogul who revolutionised news broadcasting.
Ted Turner, media mogul who revolutionised TV news by launching CNN, dies at 87
The media mogul pioneered the modern 24-hour news culture when he launched the Cable News Network in 1980.
Orphaned baby hippo to be hand-reared by keepers at Kenya sanctuary
The baby hippo, which has been named Bumpy, was found clinging to its lifeless mother at a lake.
Massive Alaska megatsunami was second largest ever recorded
New research suggests glacier melt driven by climate change is increasing the risk of giant waves.
Robot wars – what an operation in Ukraine tells us about the battlefield of the near future
After Ukraine’s President Zelensky said territory had been captured using just robots and drones, what is the future of unmanned warfare?
Watch: Passengers evacuated from virus-hit cruise ship off Cape Verde
The Dutch foreign ministry confirmed that a British, German and Dutch national had now been taken from the virus-hit ship.
What is the cruise ship hantavirus and how does it spread?
The Andes strain of the virus has been confirmed in some passengers, which can rarely be passed from person to person.
LiveEO raises €28m to take its civil-infrastructure satellite stack into European defence
The Berlin geospatial-AI company has closed the first slice of a new round, with defence VC Helantic alongside Nordic Ninja, MMC, and the EIC. Most
Ametek to buy Indicor’s instrumentation businesses for $5bn, the largest CD&R partial exit of 2026
Clayton, Dubilier & Rice banks one of the cleanest mid-market industrial partial exits of 2026, three and a half years after carving the portfolio out