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890 Arrests, Dozens Injured: PSG's Champions League Win Turns France Into a Warzone
Paris Saint-Germain lifted Europe's biggest club trophy for the second straight year — and France's Interior Ministry spent the night counting bodies and broken glass. The celebrations were indistinguishable from a riot.
SoftBank's Son says AI revolution dwarfs dotcom boom By Investing.com
Investing.com -- SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son has told CNBC that the artificial intelligence revolution will far surpass the scale of the dotcom era, and said any market correction along the way would represent a buying opportunity rather than a reason for concern. Speaking to CNBC in Paris, Son said, "I think this is like more than 10x, probably 50x bigger than dotcom," drawing a parallel with the early internet era and arguing that the dotcom crash, painful as it was, ultimately prov
SoftBank Dethrones Toyota as Japan's Most Valuable Company — AI Rewrites the Hierarchy
For the first time in over two decades, an automaker no longer sits at the top of Japan Inc. SoftBank's AI-fueled surge isn't a blip — it's a verdict on where the world's capital thinks the future lives.
Drishyam 3 Hits ₹113 Crore Worldwide in Ten Days — Malayalam Cinema's Quiet Dominance Continues
Mohanlal's third outing as Georgekutty is not just a sequel — it's a commercial argument that Malayalam cinema doesn't need Bollywood's budget to beat Bollywood's numbers. The franchise is doing something the industry keeps pretending isn't happening.
India's Army Chief Says Forces Are Ready for a Second Operation Sindoor
General Upendra Dwivedi has put it plainly: if Pakistan-backed terror triggers another round, India won't wait. The theaterisation overhaul designed to make that response faster and harder is finally moving off the drawing board.
U.S. Military Is Running a De Facto Naval Blockade of Iran — and Calling It Escort Duty
While Washington and Tehran trade diplomatic signals, U.S. Central Command has quietly guided roughly 70 commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz — and destroyed or disabled vessels that didn't comply. That's not escort duty. That's control of a waterway.
UK Energy Bills Jump 13% — and the Iran War Is the Part Nobody in Power Wants to Explain
Ofgem has raised the energy price cap by 13%, adding roughly £18 a month to the average household bill from July. The trigger is Middle East conflict disrupting global gas markets — and British consumers are, once again, the ones holding the bill.
SpaceX IPO Fever Is Everywhere — But the Math Doesn't Care About Your Feelings
From racetrack executives to stock exchange guards, everyone wants a piece of SpaceX before it lists. That consensus alone should terrify you.
Chicago-to-Minneapolis United Airlines flight diverted after attempted cockpit breach
Plane landed in Wisconsin and 'unruly passenger' was taken into custody before flight continued to Minnesota A United Airlines flight bound for Minneapolis from Chicago was reportedly diverted after an "unruly passenger" tried to breach the cockpit late on Friday. The FBI and police responded to reports of a security concern with the passenger, who was detained by police at the Dane county regional airport in Madison, Wisconsin. The flight continued its journey to Minneapolis, landing early on
Berkshire Hathaway to acquire homebuilder Taylor Morrison for $6.8 bln By Investing.com
Investing.com-- Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKb) said on Sunday it had agreed to acquire U.S. homebuilder Taylor Morrison Home Corp (NYSE:TMHC) for about $6.8 billion in cash, expanding its presence in the residential housing market. Under the terms of the agreement, Berkshire will pay $72.50 per Taylor Morrison share in cash, representing a premium of about 24% to the company's closing price of $58.50 on May 29. Including debt, the transaction values the Scottsdale, Arizona-base
HGS Posts Rs 8.2 Cr Q4 Loss as Media Vertical Bleeds and Tax Bill Bites
Hinduja Global Solutions swung from profit to loss in Q4 FY26, hit by a Rs 22.87 crore tax charge and a struggling media segment. The numbers tell a story the company's investor communications are unlikely to lead with.
India's Restaurants Are Paying Twice What They Paid in January for Cooking Gas
Commercial LPG prices in Delhi have crossed ₹3,100 per cylinder after a fresh ₹42 hike on June 1 — the latest blow in a run-up that has nearly doubled costs since the Iran war shook global energy markets. Domestic consumers are shielded, for now. The people running your food stall are not.
Asia's Factories Are Stockpiling for a War Nobody Wants to Name
From Tokyo to Mumbai, factory managers are quietly building buffers against a Middle East conflict that global institutions are finally admitting could break supply chains. The PMI numbers look fine — until you read why.
Mahindra Outsells Hyundai Again — India's Auto Pecking Order Is Shifting
For the second consecutive month, Mahindra has pushed Hyundai out of the number-two spot in Indian passenger vehicle sales. The SUV wave that Detroit missed a decade ago is now reshaping Asia's third-largest auto market — and the incumbents are scrambling.
Delhi's Family Planning Collapse: Fewer Women Covered, More Left Behind
India's most-watched urban district is going backward on contraceptive access — and the government's own data proves it. The question nobody in the health ministry wants answered: where did a decade of gains go?
AI Stocks Paper Over a Crack: Markets Climb While Iran Talks Teeter on Collapse
Asian equities pushed higher Monday on the back of AI-sector enthusiasm, but the rally is doing real work hiding a fragile truth: the US-Iran negotiations that could stabilize global energy markets are, by Tehran's own account, on the verge of breaking down.
EU Eyes Freeze on Russia Oil Cap as Iran War Blows Up Its Own Sanctions Logic
Brussels quietly floats suspending its flagship anti-Moscow energy measure — not because it's working, but because a wider Middle East war is about to make it irrelevant. The contradiction is impossible to hide.
India's Pump Prices Hold — But Two Weeks of Hikes Already Burned ₹7.50/Litre Into Every Tank
State oil companies froze retail fuel prices on June 1, but the damage from a fortnight of successive hikes is already baked in. With West Asia keeping crude elevated and export duties being trimmed, ordinary Indians are absorbing costs that policy tools were designed to buffer.
India Zeroes Out Cotton Import Duty — Textile Mills Win, But the Fix Has an Expiry Date
New Delhi has suspended the 11% customs duty on raw cotton imports through October 31, throwing a lifeline to mills squeezed by tight domestic supply. The relief is real — but it's a five-month patch on a structural wound.
Five Workers Killed in Explosion at South Korea's Premier Defense Manufacturer
A blast tore through a Hanwha Aerospace facility in Daejeon during explosives-related cleaning work, killing five and leaving bodies too damaged to immediately identify. At a company building rockets and artillery systems for a nation on a wartime procurement surge, the timing and location raise hard questions about safety culture under pressure.
Bus Fire on Turkish Highway Kills 8, Including Infant — Driver Had Stopped for Fault 20 Minutes Before
A tourist bus plowed into highway barriers in western Türkiye, burst into flames, and killed eight people including a nine-month-old boy and his father. The detail authorities haven't dwelled on: the driver had already pulled over with a mechanical problem shortly before the fatal stretch.
India Buries MGNREGA — New 125-Day Work Law Is Either an Upgrade or a Rebrand
The Modi government has formally notified a replacement for one of India's most consequential welfare laws, giving states until July 1, 2026 to comply. Whether rural workers gain or lose depends entirely on implementation details the government hasn't fully disclosed.
Noida's Gleaming New Airport Opens June 15 — But Who's Actually Going to Use It?
IndiGo has switched on ticket sales for the inaugural Lucknow-Noida route, marking the operational birth of the long-promised Jewar airport. The catch: flying from Noida already costs more than flying from Delhi, and nine out of ten surveyed NCR travellers say they'd rather stick with IGI.
Victoria's Secret Ditches 'VSCO,' Goes 'VSXY' After Woke Rebrand Torched Sales
The lingerie giant spent years chasing a brand reinvention nobody asked for — and the balance sheet showed it. Now it's betting a stock ticker and a two-word slogan can claw back what it surrendered.
Bill Gates Is Radioactive Now — Even Microsoft Doesn't Want Him in the Room
The Epstein files didn't just embarrass Bill Gates — they appear to have ended his rehabilitation arc. The man who spent a billion dollars becoming the world's favorite billionaire is now being quietly uninvited from the institutions he helped build.