President Donald Trump’s about-face on NATO today (July 12) only emphasizes the extent to which the US has become an uncommitted member of the alliance. The Baltic states, on the other hand, will always be amongst its most passionate supporters.
President Donald Trump once declared NATO “obsolete.” Today (July 12), he said “I believe in NATO.”
The UK’s data privacy watchdog didn’t mince words about Facebook’s role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal: The social media giant “contravened the law by failing to safeguard” the information of 87 million people, it said. As a result, the company is facing the maximum fine the regulator can impose.
President Donald Trump branded Germany a “captive of Russia” for its support of a Baltic Sea gas pipeline deal this morning (July 11). The verbal attack comes just days before he meets Russian president Vladimir Putin.
When Donald Trump arrives in the UK later this week, he’ll be laying unusually low for a US president visiting Britain, thanks to the throngs of protests expected in central London.
The crisis swirling around the UK government and Brexit talks right now has been touted by some factions as a result of prime minister Theresa May’s weak leadership. However, at the heart of the problem is the fact that the country is being held hostage by hardline Brexit-supporting politicians.
Americans supposedly use 500 million plastic straws every day—or not. It turns out that the math behind that figure was done by a nine-year-old in 2011.
It took the UK prime minister less than 12 hours to appoint Dominic Raab as the new Brexit secretary after David Davis resigned overnight amid criticism of Theresa May’s new proposals for a deal with the European Union. But the swiftness of the replacement does little to conceal the scale of the schism within her Conservative Party—and the threat to her leadership.
“Who knows about Brexit? No one’s got a f****** clue what Brexit is. It’s like this mad riddle”—Danny Dyer, soap opera actor and sometime astute political commentator.
Today (July 5), the UK’s beloved National Health Service (NHS) turns 70 years old.
Confusing the families at war in Shakespeare’s most famous tragic play Romeo and Juliet would be a mortifying mistake to make as a student. But for an exam board that did just that, it’s a finable offense, according to Britain’s exam regulator Ofqual.
For the first time ever, Panama has been classified as a high-income nation—a country with a gross national income per capita of $12,055 or more—by the World Bank.
It’s not a good time to be a 65-year-old Polish Supreme Court justice.
In the world of economics, even fleetingly thinking that “this time is different” is considered sacrilegious. It almost never is (paywall).
Drawing attention to the prevalence of a sexually transmitted disease (STD) probably doesn’t feature on any tourist board’s game plan.
British telecom giant Vodafone has become the latest big brand to move some of its essential marketing functions in house—a move that shows exactly what advertising agencies are up against.
The European Union is working on an emergency plan (paywall) for the Channel Tunnel in the event that the UK ends up leaving the bloc without a deal—known as a “hard Brexit”, according to the Financial Times.
Borders pose all sorts of problems, from tit for tats between friendly neighbors to full-blown immigration crises. You’d expect a dispute between Norway and Sweden about line-crossing reindeers to fall a lot closer to the harmless end of the spectrum.
German chancellor Angela Merkel has led by example on how to approach the refugee crisis in Europe. But her two-year struggle to get other European Union countries to follow suit, by overhauling the bloc’s asylum rules, won’t be over any time soon.
