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Nigel Farage (C), leader of the Reform UK party, celebrates the victory of Sarah Pochin, the party’s candidate, in the Runcorn & Helsby by-election at the DCBL Stadium in Widnes, north-west England, in the early hours of May 2, 2025. Oli Scarff | Afp | Getty ImagesNigel Farage, leader of Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party, has won re-election to parliament in a vote he triggered himself last month by stepping down amid controversy over his finances.Farage, who has previously been praised by U.S. President Donald Trump and was a figurehead in the U.K. campaign to leave the European Union, faces…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Mortgage rates in the US and big European economies have risen again in recent weeks as the renewal of tensions between Washington and Iran reverberates through housing markets, raising costs for homebuyers and owners wanting to refinance.In the US, interest rates for 30-year mortgages, the most popular product, are hovering around the highest level in more than a year, despite the Federal Reserve keeping official short-term borrowing costs on hold in 2026.The rise reflected concern in financial markets that officials in the…
Detector may not flag lying cops Another change that Flock introduced to help solve the stalker cop problem includes requiring case numbers for searches. However, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Saira Hussain, told SFGate that it seems trivially easy for cops to get around that requirement without triggering the audit assistance tool. A motivated bad actor could seemingly lie and give any case number, then conduct searches related to stalking romantic partners without triggering suspension, she suggested. “That’s a significant concern, and I don’t think you, as Flock, are going to be able to tech your…
Nigel Farage did not turn up to savour his victory in the by-election he triggered himself.Overnight he told a rally of Reform UK supporters he had been advised there was an “organised campaign to disrupt and degrade the result” and wanted to avoid being “demeaned and humiliated by nobodies”.When the official result did come in hours later, it confirmed the Reform UK leader had indeed won this by-election convincingly with 22,239 votes, but without any serious opposition after the other main parties did not put up candidate.Farage’s allies say he has been both emboldened and re-energised by this race, and…
One specialist arbitrage trade on a metal commodity is evolving into a real-time gauge of U.S. tariff risk. Copper — seen as a broader economic barometer, with the industrial metal a key component in construction, electronics and transportation — has been on a tear for more than a year, with futures reaching a record high of almost $6.90 per pound last week.The spread between U.S. COMEX futures and London Metal Exchange prices has historically been used by physical traders, banks, hedge funds, producers and consumers to profit from temporary price differences and hedge against price risk between the two markets.The…
An exhibitor demonstrates a Unitree Robotics G1 humanoid robot at the Humanoids Summit in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, May 29, 2026. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAs retail excitement around the listing of China’s best-known humanoid maker, Unitree Robotics, reaches fever pitch, skeptics are questioning how long it will take before these robots can move beyond running and acrobatics to perform genuinely useful work.The Hangzhou-based startup priced its IPO at 150.8 yuan ($22.4) a share, raising $900 million and valuing the company at 61 billion yuan, or about $9 billion. Investors expect a big first-day pop from Unitree, when…
Ukrainian drone teams demolished a brigade of US Army tanks and armored vehicles during a live war game held this year—but the US soldiers were lucky enough to get “respawn” attempts while learning from the experience. The semiannual military exercise, called Combined Resolve, gave the US military a firsthand taste of how modern drone warfare has evolved on the battlefields of Ukraine. The Ukrainian drone operators participating in the exercise were easily able to spot and destroy US armored vehicles by mimicking the actions of dropping bombs from above or moving close enough to simulate a kamikaze strike, according to…
Backed by Uber and powered by Chinese company Pony.ai, Croatia’s Verne has rolled out robotaxi services in the capital city Zagreb since spring 2026.Marko Perkov | Afp | Getty ImagesBEIJING — U.S. ride-hailing giant Uber is ramping up its global robotaxi coverage with operator Pony.ai.The companies plan to deploy 2,000 of Pony.ai’s self-driving taxis across Europe, and expand the robotaxi partnership to the Middle East, they announced Friday. In late March, Uber and Pony.ai launched a commercial robotaxi service in Croatia’s capital Zagreb — which they claim is the first in Europe. The partnership announced Friday will roll out robotaxis…
As cancer treatments have advanced and outcomes have improved, one aspect of cancer care in the US has consistently worsened over the last decade: the wait time for surgery. According to a study in JAMA Surgery, patients with one of six types of cancer—breast, colon, lung, pancreatic, gastric, and esophageal—have faced longer wait times for surgery than in 2012. Timeliness is considered a core metric of healthcare quality, and delays in cancer surgery have been linked to poorer outcomes, including reduced survival rates and increased patient anxiety and distress. The findings of the new study are based on data from over…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaking with CNBC on Aug. 4th, 2026.CNBCThe U.S. will be applying economic measures “that have never been seen on Iran,” according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.”It will be a combination of economic isolation like the world has never seen before, and the continued blockade in the Strait of Hormuz that will keep anything from going in or out of the Iranian ports,” Bessent said in an interview with Newsmax, without elaborating further.His statements come as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly said late Thursday stateside that the U.S. military can keep a naval blockade of Iran…