The 32.3m surpasses those caused by disasters for the first time, as 82.2m people displaced in total around world The number of internal displacements triggered by conflict or violence around the world reached a record high in 2025, surpassing the number of disaster-driven internal displacements for the first time. A report published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) shows that...
The 32.3m surpasses those caused by disasters for the first time, as 82.2m people displaced in total around world The number of internal displacements triggered by conflict or violence around the world reached a record high in 2025, surpassing the number of disaster-driven internal displacements for the first time. A report published by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) shows that by the end of 2025 there were 32.3m conflict-driven internal displacements. That is 60% higher than those recorded the previous year, and – for the first time since data collection began in 2008 – above displacements driven by natural disasters, which reached 29.9m in 2025. Continue reading...
Soft-left Tribune group issues thinly disguised attack on Keir Starmer, calling for bold policy renewal Business live – latest updates UK politics live – latest updates An influential group of MPs has said that Labour needs an urgent renewal of economic strategy to offer voters “more than better management of decline” before the next general election. With Keir Starmer fighting to ward off a leade...
Soft-left Tribune group issues thinly disguised attack on Keir Starmer, calling for bold policy renewal Business live – latest updates UK politics live – latest updates An influential group of MPs has said that Labour needs an urgent renewal of economic strategy to offer voters “more than better management of decline” before the next general election. With Keir Starmer fighting to ward off a leadership challenge , the leading backbenchers from the soft-left Tribune group published a series of essays calling for bolder action to salvage its remaining time in power. Continue reading...
In 1985, four working-class characters are bonded for ever by a strange sighting in this sentimental saga that tracks their lives into adulthood Directed by Patrick Leung, this affecting saga from Hong Kong is a bit tricksy to get to grips with because it keeps hopping back and forth between an assortment of time frames. It tracks a set of characters as children in the mid-1980s, played by one gro...
In 1985, four working-class characters are bonded for ever by a strange sighting in this sentimental saga that tracks their lives into adulthood Directed by Patrick Leung, this affecting saga from Hong Kong is a bit tricksy to get to grips with because it keeps hopping back and forth between an assortment of time frames. It tracks a set of characters as children in the mid-1980s, played by one group of young actors, and then later in the 1990s and early 00s when an adult cast takes over. But as it spirals in towards its surprising and dramatic conclusion, everything falls into place and the last 10 minutes is properly tear-jerking – even if it’s unabashedly sentimental, like a classic melodrama. The key incident foretold in the title happens around halfway through, although it’s no spoiler to know it’s coming. In 1985, a quartet of kids growing up on a working-class Hong Kong housing estate – boys Kin (Matthew Wong Cheuk-yin) and Heem (Chui Ka-him), and girl Hoyi (Lam Seung-yu) and her kid brother (Shawn Heung Sung-yu), for ever called Little Brother – see a UFO in the sky one night. The experience bonds them for ever, even if each kid grows up to pursue goals one wouldn’t expect based on what they’re like as tots. Sailor’s son Kin (played by Chui Tien-you as an adult) pursues wealth in the stock market as it booms in the aftermath of the 1997 handover of Hong Kong to China, itself an understandably big deal in the story. Heem (a very engaging Wong You-nam) had leukaemia as a child, and lives constantly in the short term under the shadow of illness. Hoyi, who everyone describes as a pudgy little girl, grows up to be a slim-hipped beauty (Charlene Choi Cheuk-yin) – this is considered a great achievement along with becoming an accountant and planning to marry a dullard named Austin (Joey Cho Yiu Leung) who has his life all planned out. Continue reading...
Prospect of flight cancellations and petrol shortages prompt people to switch from air and road to rail and bus The Middle East crisis, now in its 11th week, has resulted in higher fuel prices for drivers and prompted fears of jet fuel shortages, rising air fares and cancelled flights. Given the uncertain outlook , prospect of higher travel costs and potential disruption, we asked whether people h...
Prospect of flight cancellations and petrol shortages prompt people to switch from air and road to rail and bus The Middle East crisis, now in its 11th week, has resulted in higher fuel prices for drivers and prompted fears of jet fuel shortages, rising air fares and cancelled flights. Given the uncertain outlook , prospect of higher travel costs and potential disruption, we asked whether people had changed their holiday plans. Continue reading...
A north London cafe is under siege in a state-of-the-nation satire that brings together the haves and have-nots Britain, muses trainee barrister Xan, was getting “hotter, crueller and angrier”. Amanda Craig’s 10th novel watches as it boils over. Her setting is Prospect Park, a fictional north London suburb caught between gentrification and decline, on the 12th day of Christmas. Outside a hotel hou...
A north London cafe is under siege in a state-of-the-nation satire that brings together the haves and have-nots Britain, muses trainee barrister Xan, was getting “hotter, crueller and angrier”. Amanda Craig’s 10th novel watches as it boils over. Her setting is Prospect Park, a fictional north London suburb caught between gentrification and decline, on the 12th day of Christmas. Outside a hotel housing asylum seekers, protesters and counter-protesters have gathered. In a flat nearby, a man has been stabbed, and thugs go from shop to shop, searching for the teenage boy they think did it. Locals look on anxiously. Jade from the beauty parlour and Daisy from the health food shop brave the central street to warn others of trouble. In the kebab shop, Mehmet locks up his doner meat and sharpens his knives. Places with shutters close them. Continue reading...
Richard Adam, Zafar Khan and three others are also fined by Financial Reporting Council Business live – latest updates Five former executives at the collapsed government contractor Carillion have been bannedby the UK’s accountancy regulator, effectively ending the career of its former finance chief, after they “acted recklessly”. Before Carillion collapsed into compulsory liquidation in January 20...
Richard Adam, Zafar Khan and three others are also fined by Financial Reporting Council Business live – latest updates Five former executives at the collapsed government contractor Carillion have been bannedby the UK’s accountancy regulator, effectively ending the career of its former finance chief, after they “acted recklessly”. Before Carillion collapsed into compulsory liquidation in January 2018 – one of the biggest corporate failures in UK history – it was a large multinational construction and facilities management services company and employed 43,000 people around the world. Continue reading...
Investors can finance part of the production cost of a stage play produced by film star Louis Koo Tin-lok and featuring award-winning actress Fish Liew Chi-yu, after a Hong Kong fintech firm converts it into tradeable digital units. Esperanza Fintech Group CEO Dan Ronald Leung Wai-tsun said on Monday that the firm would launch its fifth project this year using investment tokens, which convert an e...
Investors can finance part of the production cost of a stage play produced by film star Louis Koo Tin-lok and featuring award-winning actress Fish Liew Chi-yu, after a Hong Kong fintech firm converts it into tradeable digital units. Esperanza Fintech Group CEO Dan Ronald Leung Wai-tsun said on Monday that the firm would launch its fifth project this year using investment tokens, which convert an entertainment production’s costs and profits into small, tradeable digital units via blockchain. The...
Germany ’s top financial regulator will step up pressure on insurers to address shortcomings in private credit investments and issued a warning on an asset class increasingly marketed to retail clients. At almost 40 insurers, the share of alternative investments exceeds 35% and a few of these have more than 25% of their investments in private debt, said BaFin President Mark Branson . “We are keepi...
Germany ’s top financial regulator will step up pressure on insurers to address shortcomings in private credit investments and issued a warning on an asset class increasingly marketed to retail clients. At almost 40 insurers, the share of alternative investments exceeds 35% and a few of these have more than 25% of their investments in private debt, said BaFin President Mark Branson . “We are keeping a close eye on these insurers, particularly their limit systems,” he told reporters on Tuesday in Frankfurt. “We have identified areas for improvement and will ensure that they take the necessary measures.” Private credit has been rattled in recent months by concerns about overspending on artificial intelligence, the technology’s disruptive power and lending standards more broadly. German insurers were already burned by losses on loans in the global commercial real estate meltdown in recent years. Read More: Look Behind the Private Credit Curtain, BaFin Tells Insurers On average, alternative investments account for slightly less than 20% of total investments at German insurers, of which a quarter is in private debt, Branson said. The interests of retail investors in private debt need to be taken into account in the sale of so-called European long-term investment funds, Branson added. Such investors often have a shorter investment horizon and can suffer “significant” losses while “the costs can be very high,” he said. BaFin is also encouraging European authorities “to bring more order to this market,” Branson said. He cited the example of open-ended real estate funds as showing that risk indicators, which some clients rely on, don’t always take all relevant information into account. “The ELTIF market is relatively young, and it is growing. Now is therefore the right time to ensure that the wrong customers do not stumble into these investments,” Branson said. “Products that are suitable for wealthy or professional investors are not always a good fit for retail customers.”
Meta Platforms on Tuesday lost its fight against an Italian regulatory order that it should compensate publishers for using snippets of their news articles after Europe's top court sided with the Italian telecoms watchdog. The case underscores the ongoing copyright battle between publishers and creators and tech companies over the use of newspaper articles or authors' work for AI training tha...
Meta Platforms on Tuesday lost its fight against an Italian regulatory order that it should compensate publishers for using snippets of their news articles after Europe's top court sided with the Italian telecoms watchdog. The case underscores the ongoing copyright battle between publishers and creators and tech companies over the use of newspaper articles or authors' work for AI training that have triggered litigation against companies including Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic for infringement.
WESTCHESTER, Illinois, May 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE: INGR), ein weltweit führender Anbieter von Inhaltsstofflösungen für die Lebensmittel- und Getränkeindustrie, hat heute die Ergebnisse des ersten Quartals 2026 bekannt gegeben.
WESTCHESTER, Illinois, May 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE: INGR), ein weltweit führender Anbieter von Inhaltsstofflösungen für die Lebensmittel- und Getränkeindustrie, hat heute die Ergebnisse des ersten Quartals 2026 bekannt gegeben.
WESTCHESTER, Illinois, 12 mai 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE : INGR), l’un des principaux fournisseurs mondiaux de solutions d’ingrédients pour l’industrie alimentaire et des boissons, publie aujourd’hui ses résultats financiers du premier trimestre 2026.
WESTCHESTER, Illinois, 12 mai 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE : INGR), l’un des principaux fournisseurs mondiaux de solutions d’ingrédients pour l’industrie alimentaire et des boissons, publie aujourd’hui ses résultats financiers du premier trimestre 2026.
WESTCHESTER, Illinois, May 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE: INGR), penyedia global terkemuka bagi penyelesaian bahan ramuan untuk industri makanan dan minuman, hari ini mengumumkan keputusan kewangan bagi suku pertama 2026.
WESTCHESTER, Illinois, May 12, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ingredion Incorporated (NYSE: INGR), penyedia global terkemuka bagi penyelesaian bahan ramuan untuk industri makanan dan minuman, hari ini mengumumkan keputusan kewangan bagi suku pertama 2026.