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Amazon Prime Day starts tomorrow: Here's everything to know
Tharon Green/ZDNETPrime Day is nearly here. Amazon confirmed in a June press release that its annual Prime Day event will return Tuesday, July 8, through Friday, July 11. For the first time ever, Prime Day will be a four-day extravaganza two days...

The Protocol: Polygon, Once a Scaling Leader, Eyes a Revamp
Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. We’re Margaux Nijkerk and Sam Kessler, CoinDesk’s Tech & Protocols team. In this issue: STORY CONTINUES BELOW Sandeep Nailwal...

Future Food Quick Bites: Protein Coffee, Beyond Meat x Lacrosse & Plant-Based Pakistan
5 Mins Read Our weekly column rounds up the latest sustainable food innovation news. This week, Future Food Quick Bites covers Chike Nutrition’s plant protein coffees, a sunflower seed meat alternative, and US physicians’ letter to the government....

Chaos, flight cancellations & delays: France throws summer travel into disarray
French air traffic controllers began a two-day strike on Thursday to protest over staff shortages and ageing equipment, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations just as the summer season gets under way. France's civil aviation agency DGAC told...
French air traffic controllers' walkout disrupts early summer season travel
French air traffic controllers began a two-day strike on Thursday to protest over staff shortages and ageing equipment, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations as the summer season gets under way. France's civil aviation agency DGAC told...

QS World University Rankings 2026: Full list of institutes here
Institutions Overall Rank in 2026 Overall Rank in 2025 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 1 1 Imperial College London 2 2 Stanford University 3 6 University of Oxford 4 3 Harvard University 5 4 University of Cambridge 6 5 ETH Zurich...

Cl0p Ransomware’s Exfiltration Process Exposes RCE Vulnerability
A newly disclosed vulnerability in the Python-based data-exfiltration utility used by the notorious Cl0p ransomware group has exposed the cybercrime operation itself to potential attack. The flaw, cataloged as GCVE-1-2025-0002, was identified by...

Why are Premier League clubs selling their women's teams? And which club could do it next?
Last year, Chelsea entered into a hefty deal with two days of their 2023-24 accounting period remaining. For £200million ($274m), Chelsea FC Holdings, the company which houses the club’s operations, sold Chelsea Football Club Women Limited (CFCW)...

RTL Group to buy Sky Deutschland
Sky Deutschland has been sold to multinational media conglomerate RTL Group for an initial €150m. The businesses are merging to create a brand with around 11.5 million paying subscribers. The Sky Deutschland entity serves Germany, Austria, and...

Promoting high-quality Belt and Road cooperation to a new height
Openness is a distinctive feature of Chinese modernization, and adhering to opening up to the outside world is a fundamental national policy of China. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is not only a major measure for China to expand opening-up...
UAE 'exceeds obligations' in tackling financial crime, says ambassador to EU
The European Union’s removal of the Emirates from a list of countries that pose a high risk for money laundering should take place sooner rather than later, the UAE's ambassador to the bloc said. The National reported last month how the EU planned...

Abandoned coal mines could power South Africa’s solar future
File photo A bright new future is being touted for Mpumalanga’s degraded and scarred coal mining landscapes in the form of solar farms. Researchers from the Global Energy Monitor (GEM), an NGO based in the United States, have identified 18...

Robinhood unveils crypto staking in the US
By Shubhangi Chowdhury Robinhood is ramping up its ambitions in the U.S. crypto and blockchain market, rolling out a wave of new products designed to transform how American users engage with both digital assets and conventional finance. The...

The World’s Cheapest And Most Expensive Cities Per 2025 Deutsche Bank Report
View of Luxembourg City's Old Towngetty Luxembourg has been listed as the world’s most liveable city in the annual Mapping the World’s Prices – 2025 report ranking the cheapest and most expensive cities by the Deutsche Bank Research Institute...

Aspire Space to develop large reusable launch vehicle in partnership with LEAP 71
Aspire Space is working with computational engineering firm LEAP 71 to develop a new large reusable launch vehicle that is capable of delivering up to 15 metric tons to low Earth orbit (LEO). Per their partnership agreement, LEAP 71 will create...

Albania Joins the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Following the 49th Governing Board meeting of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which took place today in Luxembourg, Albania became the 36th participating state to join the initiative, further strengthening Europe’s leadership in supercomputing. The...
These Are The 40 Best Countries In The World, According To People
The best country in the world is the one you live in. Or… not? This infographic, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, spotlights the 40 countries that the world perceives to be the “best.” Like most efforts to quantify a qualitative measure, this...

Banque Havilland Monaco: new twist thanks to fintech investors
Almost a year after losing its European licence, Banque Havilland’s Monegasque subsidiary is preparing to rise from the ashes thanks to a trio of technology entrepreneurs. According to Bloomberg, three investors are now preparing to relaunch the...

Việt Nam’s pharma sector heats up with major M&A deals
Việt Nam’s pharma sector heats up with major M&A deals The entry of foreign strategic investors with strong financial capacity and technological advantages has helped Vietnamese pharmaceutical companies significantly enhance their competitiveness...

Study from Cayman regulated fund reveals institutional investors and wealth managers expect boom in stablecoin market
Pension funds, insurance asset managers, family offices, hedge funds and wealth managers are forecasting strong growth in the stablecoin sector with market capitalisation and their use in transactions both set to surge, new global research from...