British finance minister Jeremy Hunt announced a string of tax increases and tighter public spending in a budget plan on Thursday that he said was needed after the blow dealt to the country's fiscal reputation by former prime minister Liz Truss.
Ukraine's president welcomed Thursday's ruling by a Dutch court that said Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down with a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine in 2014, but said that "those who ordered" the attack must now face trial.
German mobile phone providers experienced a problem on Thursday that meant thousands of people had trouble making calls, online news magazine Focus Online reported.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) board will next week discuss an emergency loan to provide Ukraine's grid operator Ukrenergo with liquidity, Matteo Patrone, managing director at the lender, said on Thursday.
It can show you a bus route or update you on weather - but tech experts and rights groups say Egypt's mobile app for COP27 has a far more sinister side as it can spy on delegates and track their talk, texts and emails.
Nagging recession and interest rate worries had Europe's markets spluttering on Thursday, and the pound tumbled as Britain sought to put its disastrous recent fiscal experiment behind it with an austere-looking budget.
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on Thursday said he would defer to Chair Jerome Powell to decide on the size of upcoming rate increases as the Fed feels its way toward more restrictive monetary policy and an eventual stopping point.
With all eyes on the U.N. climate talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, even close observers of environmental affairs could be forgiven for missing the fact that this week is also Raw Materials Week.
