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dpatop – 12 September 2024, Hesse, Frankfurt/Main: Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank (ECB), speaks at the press conference after the Governing Council meeting of the ECB. Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa (Photo by Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

ECB expected to lower interest rates once again as inflation in the eurozone fades

By Sam Reeves, Sebastien Ash, and others

Matteo Salvini attends the inauguration during the opening of the entire section of the Metropolitana M4 Blu Line from San Cristoforo to Linate in Milan, Italy, on October 12, 2024 (Photo by Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto via Getty Images).

Italy’s deputy PM says Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares should be ‘ashamed and apologise’ for ‘mismanaging an historic Italian company’

By AFP

LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 13: British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks with leaders from across the UK during the International Investment Summit on October 13, 2024 in London, England. The UK is hosting an International Investment Summit in London, as the new Labour government aims to reset relations with its global trading partners, and to invite investment and growth opportunities across the country. (Photo by Jonathan Brady – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer vows to ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment’

By AFP

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 13: A dead beached whale is seen on Rockaway beach on December 13, 2022 in the Queens borough of New York City. It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the death of the 23′ sperm whale. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images)

Wind power opponents are using the ‘Save the Whales’ argument on U.S. East Coast

By Manon Jacob and AFP

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 10: Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris at the University of Pittsburgh on October 10, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Obama slams ‘crazy’ Trump in his first campaign rally for Harris

By Maggy Donaldson, Danny Kemp, and others

Carlos Tavares, chief executive officer of Stellantis NV, speaks to the media at the Stellantis auto manufacturing plant in Sochaux, France, on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Stellantis is struggling with slowing and more competitive auto markets across Europe, where electric-vehicle demand is waning. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Struggling auto giant Stellantis says CEO Carlos Tavares will retire in 2026 when his contract ends

By AFP

Rock lobsters are packed in a polystyrene box with dry wood flakes at the Geraldton Fishermen’s Co-operative Ltd. processing facility in Perth, Australia, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Australia sends about A$1.6 billion ($1.3 billion) of food overseas by plane each year, making it the country’s biggest airborne export after gold and medicine. Photographer: Philip Gostelow/Bloomberg via Getty Images

China lifts ban on Australian lobsters—the last piece of its costly multi-year trade war

By AFP

LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 01: Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer makes a statement on the evolving situation in the Middle East at 10 Downing Street on October 1, 2024 in London, England. Tensions in the Middle East have been escalating over the past twenty-four hours, with Israeli forces launching a ground offensive into southern Lebanon, and Iran firing several waves of missiles at Israel on Tuesday. (Photo by Benjamin Cremel – Pool/Getty Images)

Britain’s new government closes in on major employment reforms including enhanced sick and maternity pay and a zero-hour contract ban

By AFP

GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND – JUNE 28: Stormzy performs in the headline slot on the Pyramid Stage on day three of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2019 in Glastonbury, England. Glastonbury is the largest greenfield festival in the world, and is attended by around 175,000 people. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Banksy stab-proof vest made famous by British rapper Stormzy sold for £780,000

By AFP

Emma Walmsley, chief executive officer of GSK Plc, at the company’s headquarters in the Brentford suburb of London, UK, on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. When Elliott Investment Management, a hedge fund known for taking stakes in underperforming companies, came calling for the ouster of Walmsley, she found her remedy in a vaccine breakthrough almost 60 years in the making. Photographer: Vivian Wan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

British pharma giant GSK strikes $2.3 billion deal to put an end to 80,000 U.S. lawsuits

By AFP

German Minister of Economics and Climate Protection Robert Habeck uses a visual during a press conference on the government’s updated growth forecast, in Berlin on October 9, 2024. The German government slashed its 2024 forecast on October 9, 2024 and said it now saw Europe’s largest economy contracting for a second straight year before a recovery gets under way in 2025, bolstered by domestic and foreign consumption. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

German government slashes economic growth forecast, warning ‘structural problems’ will remain until 2025

By Michelle Fitzpatrick and AFP

Supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) hold a sign thanking X social media platform owner Elon Musk, during an Independence day rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil on September 7, 2024. (Photo by NELSON ALMEIDA / AFP) (Photo by NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP via Getty Images)

Brazil lifts ban on Elon Musk’s X after platform complies with all judge’s demands and settles $5.2m in fines

By Ramon Sahmkow and AFP

Boeing Co. factory workers walked off the job for the first time in 16 years, halting manufacturing across the planemaker’s Seattle hub after members of its largest union voted overwhelmingly to reject a contract offer and go on strike. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Boeing suspends negotiations with striking machinists because it says union demands would make it uncompetitive

By AFP

Crew members of purse seiner hauling in net while fishing for salmon

A ‘dramatic decline’ of salmon stocks hits U.K. following similar trend in Ireland, Iceland, Sweden and Canada

By AFP

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – OCTOBER 7: Nobel Committee announces the winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a press conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 7, 2024. The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their microRNA discovery and gene regulation studies. (Photo by Atila Altuntas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to 2 U.S. scientists who discovered microRNA, which regulates gene activity

By Pia Ohlin and AFP