Affordable housing a critical gap in India’s real estate boom
India’s property market has gone from strength to strength. All the main sectors continue to perform extremely well. Last year, take-up of shopping centre...
Trump claims ‘last chance’ for Iran to strike deal in latest warning
Published: 5:23am, 4 Aug 2026Updated: 5:24am, 4 Aug 2026 US President Donald Trump on Monday said Iran was facing its “last chance” to reach...
Democratic US states sue to challenge Trump’s latest round of tariffs
A group of 25 Democratic-led US states sued US President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday, arguing that the president’s latest round of tariffs on...
Zelensky dismisses Ukraine’s ambassador to US
President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States, Olha Stefanishyna, in a presidential decree published on Monday. Stefanishyna had been in her...
Chinese executive filmed taking cash on Colombia metro, South America’s biggest project
Published: 3:16am, 4 Aug 2026Updated: 3:20am, 4 Aug 2026 Colombian prosecutors are investigating allegations that executives of a Chinese state-owned contractor building the Bogota...
Michigan reports the first 2 US deaths related to a diarrhoea-causing parasite
Two people have died in the cyclospora outbreak in Michigan, state health officials announced on Monday, the first deaths confirmed in the US related...
Spain denies ignoring intelligence service warning over Ceuta migration crisis
The government in Madrid has rejected allegations that it ignored warnings from its intelligence service, the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia (CNI), about a mass...
Hard-right Reform UK vows to use navy to stop small boats if it wins power
The hard-right Reform UK party unveiled plans on Monday for, if it wins power, “the largest military operation” in the Channel “since World War...
Jay Clayton sworn in as US spy chief after contentious Senate confirmation hearing
Jay Clayton was sworn in on Monday as the US director of national intelligence after a contentious Senate confirmation hearing in which he refused...