From Curaçao and Cape Verde to Morocco and Turkey, fans reflect Dutch city where loyalties are shared, not divided Three hours before their team’s opening World Cup match on 14 June, about 4,000 football fans are expected to pack into a giant former concrete grain store in Rotterdam that is one of the Dutch city’s best-known nightclub venues. However, the flags will be blue, not orange, and the ar...
From Curaçao and Cape Verde to Morocco and Turkey, fans reflect Dutch city where loyalties are shared, not divided Three hours before their team’s opening World Cup match on 14 June, about 4,000 football fans are expected to pack into a giant former concrete grain store in Rotterdam that is one of the Dutch city’s best-known nightclub venues. However, the flags will be blue, not orange, and the aroma of arros moro will fill the air as the room pulsates to the beat of conga drums and ritmo kombina . The Maassilo has been booked to host the watch party for Curaçao, the least populous country to qualify for the World Cup and a constituent nation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Many Dutch supporters will be cheering along with them. All but two of Curaçao’s squad were born in the Netherlands; 12 of them play for clubs in the Eredivisie or the second-tier Keuken Kampioen Divisie. The team are managed by the longtime Dutch coach Dick Advocaat. The Dutch king and queen are planning to attend at least one of the Blue Wave’s group matches. Continue reading...
His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society – and he may yet become president Immigration is falling in Britain . It’s falling so fast and so hard – net migration to the UK nearly halved between 2024 and 2025 – that before long we could conceivably be a shrinking population , with more people leaving the country than coming here. (A...
His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society – and he may yet become president Immigration is falling in Britain . It’s falling so fast and so hard – net migration to the UK nearly halved between 2024 and 2025 – that before long we could conceivably be a shrinking population , with more people leaving the country than coming here. (And no, that’s not because of an exodus of bright young Britons fleeing overseas, though you wouldn’t blame them given how hard they’re finding it currently to get jobs: the rise, as the Institute for Government’s Sam Freedman helpfully points out , is mainly in foreign students and foreign workers going home.) Even small-boat crossings are down on last year. We have, in short, finally made ourselves as unattractive to the rest of the world as leave voters always wanted – which means that, sooner or later, populists who built their careers on railing against supposedly uncontrolled immigration are going to be needing another scapegoat to explain why taking back control hasn’t magically solved all the country’s problems. And with a grim inevitability, they’re finding it in turning on migrants who are already here. That’s the background to two hand grenades lobbed aggressively into British politics from across the Atlantic last week, causing enough concern in Downing Street to prompt a rare public rebuke. The claim from the US vice-president, JD Vance, that “righteous anger” was “ the only response ” to the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak would have been provocative enough, given its pointed echo of Nigel Farage’s now widely condemned call for “ pure, cold rage ”. Continue reading...
Marmite asks: ‘Do you love me or hate me?’ Vegemite couldn’t give a stuff. It’s as dry as our Aussie humour, and I wouldn’t have it any other way The hill I would die on is made of Vegemite. Marmite is a minuscule mound in comparison. A hapless hillock. A negligible knoll. Vegemite is Australian penicillin. It cures everything from homesickness to heartbreak. From pleb to celeb and prime minister ...
Marmite asks: ‘Do you love me or hate me?’ Vegemite couldn’t give a stuff. It’s as dry as our Aussie humour, and I wouldn’t have it any other way The hill I would die on is made of Vegemite. Marmite is a minuscule mound in comparison. A hapless hillock. A negligible knoll. Vegemite is Australian penicillin. It cures everything from homesickness to heartbreak. From pleb to celeb and prime minister to prisoner, Vegemite is our culinary mainstay. Aussies are not that big on etiquette – our only breach of etiquette is to suggest that we adhere to any. But there is one cardinal sin: not to like Vegemite. It is a trait that, socially, places you just below leper and just above Maga supporter in our estimation. Kathy Lette is a comedy writer and novelist. Her latest novel, The Sisterhood Rules, is literary Vegemite Continue reading...
A last World Cup – surely – for Cristiano Ronaldo, and Portugal are in great shape for a long run in the competition This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network , a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 1...
A last World Cup – surely – for Cristiano Ronaldo, and Portugal are in great shape for a long run in the competition This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network , a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Landscape painter was also a keen musician and played a cello made for him by his friend and mentor He was one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, with masterpieces including The Hay Wain and View on the Stour near Dedham But John Constable was also a keen musician – and his personal cello, which he commissioned, is to be played in public for the first time in 100 years after its ...
Exclusive: Landscape painter was also a keen musician and played a cello made for him by his friend and mentor He was one of Britain’s greatest landscape painters, with masterpieces including The Hay Wain and View on the Stour near Dedham But John Constable was also a keen musician – and his personal cello, which he commissioned, is to be played in public for the first time in 100 years after its restoration. The instrument was made in 1802 and it is thought Constable may have played it in a local band in his home village of East Bergholt in Suffolk. Continue reading...
The American is track and field’s youngest world champion but you won’t find the 17-year-old boasting about his achievements We are in living in the era of teenage super talents. On Saturday, Mirra Andreeva won the French Open at 19. Spain’s Lamine Yamal, at 18, is one of the favourites for the World Cup’s golden ball. Then there is Cooper Lutkenhaus, the 17-year-old American already making the wo...
The American is track and field’s youngest world champion but you won’t find the 17-year-old boasting about his achievements We are in living in the era of teenage super talents. On Saturday, Mirra Andreeva won the French Open at 19. Spain’s Lamine Yamal, at 18, is one of the favourites for the World Cup’s golden ball. Then there is Cooper Lutkenhaus, the 17-year-old American already making the world’s best athletes gasp for air and reach for superlatives, who may yet prove the best of the bunch. True, it is early days. But Lutkenhaus is already track and field’s youngest world champion, having won 800m indoor gold in March . On Sunday, he added to his CV with victory against a top-class field in his first Diamond League race. But it was what his rivals said afterwards in Stockholm that left the deepest mark. Continue reading...
Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in bid to widen access to quality fiction An initiative that aims to widen access to Booker prize-winning authors is set to launch this week, as research finds that more than a third of UK adults find it hard to read books through to the end. The Booker Prize Foundation is launching a short story collection entitled All Around th...
Short story collection All Around the World will be available for £1 in bid to widen access to quality fiction An initiative that aims to widen access to Booker prize-winning authors is set to launch this week, as research finds that more than a third of UK adults find it hard to read books through to the end. The Booker Prize Foundation is launching a short story collection entitled All Around the World, including works by the Booker prize winners Anne Enright, David Szalay and International Booker prize nominee Nadifa Mohamed. The collection was curated by another former winner, Roddy Doyle. Continue reading...
GUANGZHOU, China, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EHang Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EH) (“EHang” or the “Company”), the world’s leading advanced air mobility (“AAM”) technology platform company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.
GUANGZHOU, China, June 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- EHang Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: EH) (“EHang” or the “Company”), the world’s leading advanced air mobility (“AAM”) technology platform company, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026.
Deliverance AI, the UK-founded Agentic Operating System (OS) for the enterprise, today announced its emergence from stealth with £6m ARR, more than 30 employees and six enterprise customers within three months of incorporation.
Deliverance AI, the UK-founded Agentic Operating System (OS) for the enterprise, today announced its emergence from stealth with £6m ARR, more than 30 employees and six enterprise customers within three months of incorporation.
narvo vexar/iStock via Getty Images Let the Game Begin The Italian banking system is quite unique in Europe. Most scholars believe that the modern banking system was born in Renaissance Italy, and one of the banks that started at that time - the Siena-headquartered Banca Monte dei Paschi ( BMDPF ; BMPSY ) - is at the center of the story we have to deal with today. Monte dei Paschi was one of the l...
narvo vexar/iStock via Getty Images Let the Game Begin The Italian banking system is quite unique in Europe. Most scholars believe that the modern banking system was born in Renaissance Italy, and one of the banks that started at that time - the Siena-headquartered Banca Monte dei Paschi ( BMDPF ; BMPSY ) - is at the center of the story we have to deal with today. Monte dei Paschi was one of the last banks to recover from the GFC and the sovereign debt crisis, but in recent years it has become a rather lively and important player in the restructuring of what many call "the Italian Banking Risk!" with reference to the well-known board game. Before we deal with the news, allow me to explain a few things for those who are not familiar with this system. In Italy, the banking sector has to be viewed as a two-tier system dominated by two big institutions and many regional and national banks. The two big ones are Intesa Sanpaolo ( ISNPY , IITSF ) and UniCredit ( UNCRY ; UNCFF ). They account for roughly 40% to 45% of Italian banking assets. I have covered both of them several times and currently own a stake in Intesa but am also bullish on UniCredit and its attempt to buy Commerzbank . Because of this situation, many have argued that the country needs a third large player to compete in Europe, and the government has also viewed this favorably. This leads us into an intricate maze of cross-ownerships. Moreover, some banks are intertwined in intricate relationships with big insurers, involving national and European champions such as Generali ( ARZGF ; ARZGY ) and Unipol ( UFGSY ), but also industrial foundations, public stakes held by the Italian Treasury, and a few key families. At the center of this web is where we find Monte dei Paschi, which was rescued in 2017 involving state aid amounting to EUR 5.4B, which made the Italian Treasury hold, at peak, a 68% stake in the bank. Once Luigi Lovaglio was appointed CEO in 2022, the bank underwent an incredible turnaround, which ...
Presented by Snowflake As AI agents become capable of reasoning across systems and taking action, software is evolving from something employees operate into something that understands intent. Instead of navigating disparate applications and dashboards, a single system will increasingly ask: What are you trying to accomplish? That sounds like a user experience breakthrough. It is. But the more impo...
Presented by Snowflake As AI agents become capable of reasoning across systems and taking action, software is evolving from something employees operate into something that understands intent. Instead of navigating disparate applications and dashboards, a single system will increasingly ask: What are you trying to accomplish? That sounds like a user experience breakthrough. It is. But the more important implication is organizational. When software no longer relies on humans to provide context, companies can no longer assume that knowledge lives in employees' heads or is buried inside disconnected applications. The company itself has to become machine-readable. The winners in the AI era won't simply deploy more intelligent models. They'll build the data foundations, semantic context, and governance frameworks that allow machines to understand how the business works and act on that understanding with confidence. Context is becoming infrastructure For years, companies treated context as a human layer on top of data. The data platform held the records, then the BI tool visualized them, and the analyst interpreted them. And finally, the business leader made the judgment call. Agents collapse those layers. When an executive asks, “Why is customer churn rising in our enterprise segment?” an effective agent needs to know far more than where the customer data lives. It needs to understand how the company defines churn, which accounts count as enterprise, whether product usage data is more reliable than survey data, which renewal events matter, what the sales team has logged, what support tickets suggest, and whether the answer differs by geography or product line. This is why semantics — the definitions, relationships, rules, and assumptions that give data meaning — are moving from a technical concern to a boardroom issue. A semantic layer used to sound like plumbing for data teams. In an agentic enterprise, it becomes the shared language between humans and machines. If every...
RelaxFoto.de/E+ via Getty Images Introduction The nuclear revival is not the question worth arguing over in 2026. Reactors are coming back online. Hyperscale operations like Amazon ( AMZN ), Meta ( META ), and Microsoft ( MSFT ) are signing power deals. The federal government has even moved uranium to be critical to national security. The harder question that most other coverage has skipped is whe...
RelaxFoto.de/E+ via Getty Images Introduction The nuclear revival is not the question worth arguing over in 2026. Reactors are coming back online. Hyperscale operations like Amazon ( AMZN ), Meta ( META ), and Microsoft ( MSFT ) are signing power deals. The federal government has even moved uranium to be critical to national security. The harder question that most other coverage has skipped is whether the Sprott Uranium Miners ETF ( URNM ) is the right way to own that revival at today's price. I genuinely don't think it is, at least not yet. The fund gives you mined uranium exposure, which is the part of the nuclear fuel supply chain that is loosening. Meanwhile, the parts that are tightening, conversion and enrichment, sit almost entirely outside of the portfolio. At the same time, the miner equities inside URNM have already priced in a great deal of optimism that the underlying uranium price has not delivered yet. This article is for the reader who has seen the BUY ratings, believes in nuclear for the long haul, and wants to understand why the entry point and fund structure matter just as much as the theme. In this article, I will walk you through what URNM actually holds, where it sits in the fuel cycle, why the equities have gotten ahead of the metal, and what the fund's own risk grades are telling you. My conclusion is a HOLD. I believe in this theme; I just don't want to chase this vehicle at this price. Brief Overview URNM is the Sprott Uranium Miners ETF. It seeks to invest at least 80% of its assets in the securities of its tracked index, which follows companies that invest at least half of their assets in the mining, exploration, development, production, or the holding of physical uranium. It tracks the VettaFi Global Uranium Mining Index (renamed in April 2026 following a December 2025 methodology change). The fund makes its money the same way any passive equity ETF does. It holds a basket of stocks and charges a management fee, currently 0.75% per year. ...