US President Donald Trump during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. Aaron Schwartz | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to impose up to 200% tariffs on pharmaceuticals imported into the U.S. “very soon.” “They’re going to be tariffs at very…
Hong Kong police have arrested a 13-year-old boy on suspicion of drug trafficking after uncovering a narcotics cache worth about HK$530,000 (US$67,520) hidden inside his Mong Kok home. Officers from Wong Tai Sin district’s anti-triad unit raided a flat on Pak Po Street on Monday, seizing about 1kg (2.2lbs) of suspected crystal meth “ice”. Police…
MPs have voted on a proposal to force the Premier League to make at least 10 games a season free-to-air by law. Since the Premier League’s inception in 1992, all games have been behind a paywall with broadcasters such as Sky Sports, Amazon Prime and TNT Sports – although a handful of games were free-to-air…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK financial regulator has fined Monzo £21mn for repeatedly breaching rules against opening accounts for “high-risk customers” after the digital bank took on clients that provided “obviously implausible information” including home addresses at Buckingham…
Berlin Fashion Week SS26 street style50 Images Much has been made of Berlin Fashion Week’s ascent in the last couple of years. With Fashion Council Germany – along with the help of the German state – now committed to pumping €4 million a season into the shows, there’s been a renewed interest in the bi-annual…
China has recently emerged as the global leader in EV technology, leaving the US struggling to keep pace as Chinese EVs become cheaper and better. While American automakers like Tesla were instrumental in popularizing EVs in the West, Chinese brands are rapidly outpacing them in scale, speed, and innovation. This growing divide isn’t just about…
(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he ordered an expansion of contacts with the United States to ensure critical deliveries of military supplies, primarily air defence. Zelenskiy issued his call a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington would send more weapons to Ukraine, mainly defensive ones, to help the country defend…
Why Don’t You Want Us To Help You? If you love Google’s Gemini AI assistant you can ignore this as nothing will change for you as you will have granted it access to everything on your device already. On the other hand, if you would prefer Gemini keeps it’s digital fingers to itself you have…
The Treasury Department has levied sanctions against a North Korean cyber operative and notorious member of Kim Jong Un’s military intelligence agency, formally known as the “Reconnaissance General Bureau.” The U.S. has accused Song Kum Hyok of facilitating an IT worker scheme and charges that the member of the “Andariel” hacking group recruited North Korean…
US president voices frustration over the continuing war in Ukraine, says Vladimir Putin is ‘killing a lot of people’. United States President Donald Trump says he is not happy with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over the continuation of the war in Ukraine and suggests he is considering additional sanctions against Moscow. “We get a lot…