Yesterday
UK, US spy chiefs call for ‘staying the course’ on Ukraine
In their first ever jointly authored article, the heads of the CIA and Britain’s intelligence service said resisting an assertive Russia was more vital than ever.
- Reuters
Ukraine long-range strikes into Russia won’t be a game changer: US
The warning from the US was in response to Volodymyr Zelensky’s repeated plea for Western nations to supply more long-range missiles to his war-torn country.
- Phil Stewart and Sabine Siebold
This Month
PwC UK to track workers’ locations in office attendance crackdown
The big four firm will send British employees their monthly working location data as it toughens up on its hybrid working policy.
- Chris Price, Alex Singleton and Lucy Burton
Macron turns to veteran Brexit hardman as French PM
The French president, boxed in by the parliamentary deadlock he created via a snap election in June, has named 73-year-old Michel Barnier as prime minister.
- Hans van Leeuwen
US, Britain and Brussels set to sign agreement on AI standards
The convention, which was drafted by more than 50 countries, requires signatories to be accountable for any harmful and discriminatory outcomes of AI systems.
- Madhumita Murgia and Javier Espinoza
Germany faces jobs crisis ‘of a thousand cuts’
Highly paid manufacturing work is no longer easy to come by in the eurozone’s largest economy.
- Olaf Storbeck and Patricia Nilsson
London and Sydney workers slow to return to office: study
London workers spend 2.7 days in the office and Sydney 2.8 days, well behind Paris, New York and Singapore.
- Irina Anghel
Ballistic missile strike kills at least 50 in Ukraine
“The Russian scum will definitely be held accountable for this strike,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said after the attack, the war’s deadliest single strike this year.
- Updated
- Olena Harmash
Music fans caught in industry’s surge-pricing war
Surge pricing – where ticket prices peak with demand – has been the scourge of the Oasis reunion tour. Can anything be done to stop the rot?
- James Hall
Volkswagen mulls closing German plants for first time in its history
The German brand has faced falling sales, amid decreased demand in Europe, especially for its electric vehicles, and cut-throat competition from China.
- Melissa Eddy
Nearly $700 to see Oasis! Outrage in UK over ‘dynamic’ ticket pricing
Fans had expected to pay around half that, and global giant Ticketmaster was the only one of three platforms to have engaged in the practice.
- Daniel Woolfson
- Analysis
- Global economy
Ireland’s problem: what to do with its $14b budget surplus
More than a decade on from a crash that required the EU and IMF to step in with loans, deciding what to do with the country’s tremendous fortune is proving tricky.
- Jude Webber
Russia pounds Kyiv with missiles, Ukraine’s military says
Ukraine’s air defence units have destroyed more than 10 cruise missiles and nearly 10 ballistic missiles, says the city’s military administration.
- Pavel Polityuk and Valentyn Ogirenko
Scholz alliance humbled as populists surge in regional votes
With a year to go until Germany’s national election, the results are punishing for Olaf Scholz’s federal coalition.
- Updated
- Michael Nienaber and Arne Delfs
- Exclusive
- Russia-Ukraine war
Why ‘paranoid’ Russia’s ties with China should worry Australia
Democracies including Australia need to band together against the ‘community of autocracies’ of Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, one of NATO’s top officials says.
- Andrew Tillett
US-made F-16 crash still a mystery, as Ukraine mourns pilot’s death
After Ukraine sacked its air force chief, two senior US military officials said the cause of the F-16’s crash last week was probably not friendly fire.
- Marc Santora
August
Zelensky dismisses Air Force chief days after an F-16 crashed
There were “indications” that friendly fire from a Patriot missile battery might have brought down the jet, according to a preliminary investigation.
- Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Eric Schmitt
Italy considers hefty tax on visitors after over-tourism backlash
The government proposes a levy of up €25 a night for the most expensive hotel rooms to help cash-strapped cities.
- Updated
- Amy Kazmin and Giuliana Ricozzi
Comeback kid wins swimming gold on day one
Swimmer Tom Gallagher has delivered the first gold medal of his career and Australia’s first of the 2024 Paris Paralympics.
- George Clarke
UK workers to gain right to four-day week, business ‘petrified’
A new package of legal rights is set to include “compressed hours”, which lets an employee work their contracted week’s hours in four days rather than five.
- Ben Riley-Smith
