Briefing: Ohtani jersey from WBC goes for record $1.5M
Strategic angle: The jersey worn by Shohei Ohtani during Japan's victory in the World Baseball Classic sold for a record amount.
Briefing: Pro-Kremlin blogger turns on Putin, sent to psychiatric care
Strategic angle: After seemingly switching sides, a pro-government blogger in Russia who criticized President Vladimir Putin has been admitted to psychiatric care in St. Petersburg.
Briefing: CNBC Daily Open: clock ticks on Trump's Hormuz ultimatum
Strategic angle: Tensions between Trump and Tehran rise as the clock ticks on the U.S. President's Hormuz ultimatum.
Briefing: Ligue 1: Lille defeat Marseille thanks to Olivier Giroud and close in on 3rd place
Strategic angle: LOSC beat Marseille (2-1) at the Stade Vélodrome on matchday 27 of Ligue 1 and are closing in on a top-three finish.
Briefing: Zijin Mining Group acquires Chinese rival for $2.6B
Strategic angle: Zijin Mining Group has successfully acquired a Chinese competitor in a deal valued at $2.6 billion.
Briefing: Old masters, new methods: The tech transforming art restoration
Strategic angle: A new wave of technology is saving masterpieces, from AI-generated masks to eco-friendly cleaning gels.
Briefing: Wealth Tax on the Rich and Nuclear Power: Investor Guide to Danish Vote
Strategic angle: An essential guide for investors on the implications of Denmark's wealth tax and nuclear energy policies.
Briefing: China battery trio gain $70bn as Iran war sparks ‘paradigm shift’
Strategic angle: Share price rises for clean energy companies outstrip oil majors as investors bet on switch to renewables.
Briefing: Moving on up
Strategic angle: An overview of the latest developments in the mining sector.
Briefing: Meet the co-founder of Airbnb: How a weekend scheme to pay the rent turned into an industry giant
Strategic angle: Airbnb was first dreamed up in 2008, with people initially asking 'how could you trust a stranger ever in your own home?' In 2025, $92 billion was transacted on the platform. So how did they do it?
Briefing: What's next for Germany's troubled car giants?
Strategic angle: German automakers are in a crisis due to stagnant sales, falling profits and constant strategy shifts. Can the industry recover?
Briefing: IAEA Director: Only Nuclear War Could Halt Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
Strategic angle: The head of the IAEA warns that conventional warfare will not deter Iran's pursuit of nuclear capabilities.
Briefing: Why Google will win the agentic e-commerce race and what it means for travel
Strategic angle: An analysis of Google's competitive edge in the evolving landscape of e-commerce and its implications for the travel industry.
Briefing: Qatar Airways parks long-haul jets in storage in Spain
Strategic angle: Transfer of planes to Teruel airport signals airline is preparing for ongoing Gulf conflict
Briefing: Trump’s Iran playbook was written in the 1980s
Strategic angle: From oil threats to ultimatums, the US president has a decades-old view of how to confront Tehran
Briefing: America keeps bailing out Trump
Strategic angle: The country’s underlying strengths are absorbing his erratic choices, including the war on Iran
Briefing: Iran war is a risk to the flow of Gulf funds around the globe
Strategic angle: World has come to depend on capital from the region more deeply than many realise
Briefing: ‘It’s always Putin’ behind every EU migration crisis, official says
Strategic angle: Russian president is ‘biggest driver’ of immigration due to his role in wars over past decade, says EU commissioner
Briefing: Military briefing: the high cost of using fighters to down Iranian drones
Strategic angle: Gulf states’ reliance on jets to battle waves of cheap Shaheds is testing their finances, pilots and planes
Briefing: Iran and U.S.-Israel continue to raise the stakes as Strait of Hormuz tensions build
Strategic angle: Iran widened its warnings to target buyers of U.S. Treasury bonds, the latest salvo in an intensifying exchange of threats as the war entered its fourth week.