Hackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in about 20 minutes on Thursday — the biggest crypto theft on record — with roughly half the stolen assets since frozen and US law enforcement now involved.
Hackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in about 20 minutes on Thursday — the biggest crypto theft on record — with roughly half the stolen assets since frozen and US law enforcement now involved.
Vladimir Putin has placed Japan Tobacco International’s Russian operations under temporary administration, handing control of the country’s biggest cigarette maker to a Russian state-linked manager as Moscow’s crackdown on foreign firms widens.
Sony raised its full-year profit outlook by 9% after second-quarter operating profit of ¥622.3 billion beat analyst estimates, with games and movies leading the way ahead of the launch of Grand Theft Auto VI.
A tanker was hit by two unidentified projectiles about 50 nautical miles north of Qatar late on Tuesday, the UK maritime agency said, in the latest attack on commercial shipping in the Gulf.
The vice-president said the conflict cost his party control of Congress and called earlier advice to end the war “sound”, in the clearest public split yet with President Trump over a war Trump still defends.
Drone delivery firm Zipline has raised $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion valuation — nearly tripling in ten months — as it moves to build a nationwide delivery network in the United States, backed by Walmart and Uber.
India’s cybersecurity agency has named the group behind a wave of AI-driven attacks on banks, lenders and crypto exchanges, identifying four tools used to automate break-ins — at least two of them linked to China.
The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, lifting Bank Rate to 4% and warning that further increases are likely if the war in the Middle East drags on.
Unions, students and public-sector workers are set to march across France on Thursday in a nationwide strike over pay, public services and the cost of living, with 70,000 police deployed and disruption expected on railways and in schools.
Germany’s largest defence group cut its 2026 sales forecast to about €13.2 billion after the Arminius Boxer vehicle order slipped into next year, sending its shares down as much as 16% in Frankfurt.
A new UNICEF brief warns millions of Nepali children face overlapping climate threats — from air pollution and drought to landslides — and calls for children to be put at the centre of climate policy ahead of COP31.
