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Billed as a “bold social experiment”, Married at First Sight UK – known to many as MAFS – sees single people agree to “marry” total strangers, after meeting for the…

Rate-setters at the Bank make changes to interest rates to fulfil their role of keeping price rises at a steady level. Higher rates are meant to encourage people to spend…

BREAKINGBREAKING, Security ⁠officer killed in stabbing attack in Jordan’s capital State media reports that the assailant and a second security officer sustained injuries. Armed Jordanian police officers on patrol By…

Why more investment is not making housing affordable in Ghana High costs, limited financing and rising demand keep homes out of reach. Ghana seeks to attract investment while expanding access…

Palantir harvests battlefield data that Ukraine pays for ‘with blood’ The US company is using Kyiv’s unique war data to train its controversial technologies. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets Palantir…

America is heading for two years of constitutional brinkmanship A Democratic Congress will not bring conventional gridlock. It will set the stage for a volatile struggle over presidential power. By…

Musk makes light of defeats after record spend on Republican candidates Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is the world’s richest man and the largest individual donor in the US…

As Republican losses started mounting, Trump reacted by saying on Truth Social that he was going to “become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates…

In the Senate, Democrats flipped at least six seats, comfortably securing a majority. Adam Hamilton won in Kansas – a state that last elected a Democrat to the Senate almost…

Grain under fire: Russian, Ukrainian Black Sea attacks threaten food supply Renewed strikes on Black Sea shipping threaten grain exports, drive up food prices and deepen global food insecurity. An…