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Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum. The lots are part of a three-part auction series selling 11 autos owned by the museum.

World shares are mixed with Chinese stocks leading gains after U.S. stocks rose to records despite President-elect Donald Trump’s latest talk about tariffs

While sales of electric vehicles surge in China, the spread of more environmentally friendly vehicles is stumbling in the United States and Europe as carmakers and governments struggle to meet years-old promises about affordability and charging stations

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Executives at Zeiss SMT, which makes indispensable components to build the world’s most powerful semiconductors, got some troubling news last fall. Headhunters from Huawei Technologies, the Chinese tech firm, were trying to poach its employees.

Berlin's more than 100 Christmas markets are opening across the city this week, and organizers are taking an increasingly diverse approach

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s European allies, struggling to produce enough weapons for Kyiv’s war effort, are pioneering a new method: Giving Ukrainians money to do it themselves. In the new approach, Europeans are financing Ukrainian government contracts with cash-strapped Ukrainian arms makers to produce equipment for the country’s armed forces, including long-range missiles and drones that can strike Russian territory.

Merkel served alongside four US presidents, four French presidents and five British prime ministers. But it is perhaps her dealings with Russian President Putin that have drawn the most scrutiny since she left office in late 2021.

Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe (TKSE) plans to reduce its workforce by 11,000 people or roughly 40%, the company said on Monday, the latest major restructuring to be announced by a German industrial giant. Germany's largest steelmaker, a division of Thyssenkrupp AG, is under pressure from cheaper Asian competitors, high power prices and a weakening global economy, leading to operating losses in four of the past five years. Thyssenkrupp will cut 5,000 jobs by 2030 and an additional 6,000 jobs through the sale of business activities or transfer to external service providers, it said.

The X account for internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom says he has suffered a “serious stroke.”

Italian lender UniCredit on Monday offered to snap up its domestic rival Banco BPM for roughly 10 billion euros ($10.5 billion) in a move it says is separate from its pursuit of German bank Commerzbank.

A DHL cargo plane crashed into a house near the Lithuanian capital, killing at least one person

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are likely to get a boost in 2025 on the back of increased political clarity after a year of key national elections globally and a cooling initial public offering (IPO) market, top executives at Investec Bank Plc said in an interview with the Mint. “2024 was clearly a year of significant uncertainty.

Iran will hold talks about its disputed nuclear programme with three European powers on November 29, the Iranian foreign ministry said on Sunday, days after the U.N. atomic watchdog passed a resolution against Tehran, as per a report. Iran reacted to the resolution — proposed by Britain, France, Germany and the United States — with what government officials called various measures such as activating numerous new and advanced centrifuges, machines that enrich uranium, Reuters reported. Japan's Kyodo news agency, which first reported that the meeting would take place on Friday in Geneva, said Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian's government was seeking a solution to the nuclear impasse ahead of the inauguration in January of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the meeting of the deputy foreign ministers of Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom would take place on Friday, without specifying a venue. «A range of regional and international issues and topics, including the issues of Palestine and Lebanon, as well as the nuclear issue, will be discussed,» the spokesman said in a foreign ministry statement.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The first legal challenge to generative artificial intelligence models in India surfaced last week when news agency ANI filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Delhi High Court alleging copyright infringement. In this case, a first-of-its-kind in India, New Delhi-based ANI has accused the San Francisco-headquartered creator of ChatGPT of using ANI’s copyrighted content to train its language models.

Sam Altman has joined a growing list of tech leaders taking up roles in San Francisco’s government, after mayor-elect Daniel Lurie named the OpenAI CEO one of seven co-chairs of his transition team.

Going by this ratio, different countries in the world have different moments of overvaluation. Japan in 1997-90, Singapore in 1993-94 and again in 2006-07, China and India in 2007, UK in 2007 and 2014.

Germany's technology and services company Bosch is cutting its automotive division workforce by as many as 5,500 jobs in the next several years, in another sign of the headwinds hitting the German and global auto industries

U.S. intelligence officials are warning American defense companies to increase their security after a wave of sabotage in Europe blamed on Russia

Ikigai, the Japanese way of living that involves finding your life's purpose. It seems like a simple Venn diagram where you constantly seek the intersection of what you are good at, what you enjoy doing, what makes you money and what the world needs. It helps you discover your passion, your mission, your profession and your vocation, and if all these things align, you live the perfect life-or at least that's how it has been presented.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Indian textile exports are showing signs of recovery in FY25, with demand from European markets playing a crucial role in boosting figures, according to data from the ministry of commerce and industry. Exports to Europe during the April-October period reached $5.66 billion, marking a 6.39% increase compared to $5.32 billion in the same period of FY24.