Russia’s war in Ukraine and a less predictable United States are forcing Europe to confront an uncomfortable reality: defence now competes directly with other priorities for money. The next EU budget

Streaming once promised abundance, then discipline, then profitability; instead it left Hollywood with fewer buyers, harsher economics, and a more fragile creative culture. As ratings fragment, labor

Medicine is entering a phase in which the same scientific tools are reshaping cancer, mental health, infectious disease, and ageing itself. The result is not a single breakthrough but a convergence: m

Economic policy across the region is increasingly about protecting access, not just expanding growth. Governments are treating supply chains, defence ties and industrial policy as parts of the same st

The region is not splitting neatly into pro-U.S. and pro-China camps. Instead, governments are widening trade options, tightening supply-chain resilience, and trying to keep both security and market a

From the South China Sea to the Strait of Malacca, maritime geography is driving the region’s security agenda. Whoever can pressure or protect these routes gains leverage over trade, energy flows and

Taiwan remains the region’s sharpest flashpoint because of its industrial and technological weight. The Korean Peninsula adds another layer of risk, with North Korea’s nuclear and missile programme fo

The loudest fears about AI still revolve around robot overlords and mass layoffs, but the more immediate danger is subtler: a world in which machines do not replace humanity so much as reorder it into

The battle for social media is no longer about who has the biggest user count, but who can hold the most valuable attention: creators, tastemakers and the audiences that follow them. X still leads the

Global markets are not moving in a straight line; they are being pulled by war risk, inflation anxiety, liquidity shifts and the increasingly reflexive behavior of hedge funds. Oil and gold have becom

A packed June primary night revealed how both parties are being pulled by ideological pressure from their bases. The results point to a political class still searching for a message that can win in No

The White House is moving to tighten customs enforcement and restructure parts of the federal workforce. Together, the moves point to a harder-edged domestic agenda built around control, loyalty and s