France 24’s Eve Jackson and Stella Elgersma report from the Cannes film festival, where Rami Malek has been talking about his new film The Man I Love, a musical fantasy drama film directed by Ira Sachs, and Norwegian pop star Girl in Red is making her acting debut with Low Expectations. Source link
Europe’s economy is slowing sharply as the Iran war drives up energy costs, deepening pressure on households and challenging policy makers. Fresh data for May showed euro zone business activity contracted at its fastest pace in more than two years while inflation pressures intensified, raising fears of a prolonged cost-of-living crunch and possible recession. Source … Read more
HYPE, the native cryptocurrency of the Hyperliquid network, surpassed solana (SOL) in fully diluted valuation (FDV) on May 21, 2026 by $2.4 billion. Hyperliquid’s FDV reached $55.6 billion, while Solana’s stood at $53.7 billion. In this way, the derivatives platform was placed ahead of one of the most consolidated networks in the cryptocurrency market. It … Read more
In the world of artificial intelligence, the focus used to be on training AI models. Now, increasingly, it’s on “inference” – the actual execution of the tasks we ask these systems to perform. David Gurlé is a French tech entrepreneur whose startup Antimatter aims to service the inference boom with energy solutions, mini data centers … Read more
As the war rages on, Ukraine’s birds are increasingly becoming victims of the battlefield, pushing volunteers and soldiers to try to rescue and treat injured birds. Skies once filled with birds are now crowded with drones, and constant aerial bombardments have wrecked a delicate ecosystem across a 1,200-kilometer frontline – including birds’ nesting grounds and … Read more
A case of Ebola has been confirmed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s South Kivu province – hundreds of kilometers from the outbreak’s epicenter – according to the rebel alliance that controls the area. It marks an expansion of an outbreak of a rare strain that was detected last week and raises further concerns about difficulties … Read more
Are we living in an era where traditional diplomacy has little influence? Is the world moving towards a time when individual states increasingly use military force to assert their interests? If so, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadeful made a conscious effort this week to set a different tone. The German chief diplomat was unusually busy. … Read more
As inflation continues to rise in the United States, Donald Trump’s popularity is at an all-time low. According to a recent poll, 46 percent of Americans are unhappy with its economic policies, with consumer spending sluggish and anxiety mounting. Source link
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has publicly filed details about its upcoming initial public offering, highlighting both the company’s ambitious goals in space and its financial results. A successful share sale could value the company at a record-setting $1.75 trillion, which would put its founder on track to become the first trillionaire in history. Source link
Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said Thursday he would be “happy” to talk to US leader Donald Trump, a conversation that would break more than four decades of diplomatic protocol and drew pre-emptive ire from China. Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he would speak to Lai, as the White House weighs arms sales to the … Read more