Europe

The UK government will bring into force a law that makes it illegal to create non consensual intimate images after concerns over xAI’s Grok chatbot, as ministers warned that X…

The FTSE 100 passed 10,000 points for the first time since its launch in 1984 as the UK government moves to encourage households to shift money from cash savings into…

A senior Google employee has told a London employment tribunal that she was made redundant after reporting a manager for sexual misconduct, with the company accused of retaliation following an…

Nissan’s UK business posted a pre tax loss of £888m for the year ending 31 March 2025 after cutting the book value of its equipment, with the Sunderland based car…

A group of trade unions has accused McDonald’s of failing to meet international labour standards by not adequately addressing harassment in its UK restaurants and franchises, prompting a government backed…

The Internet Watch Foundation says it has identified criminal images of girls aged between 11 and 13 that appear to have been created using the artificial intelligence tool Grok, raising…

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used by fantasy football players looking to gain an advantage, but its growing presence in the game has prompted debate over whether technology enhances or…

The UK government has called on Elon Musk’s social media platform X to take urgent action after its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was used to generate non-consensual sexualised images of…

High street retailers Claire’s and The Original Factory Shop are set to enter administration, placing around 2,500 jobs at risk across the UK and Ireland, as their owner cited weak…

New car registrations in the UK rose above two million in 2025 for the first time since the pandemic, but the country’s main automotive industry body has warned that the…

A discreet diploma run by a leading French university is training both students and active intelligence agents, with lecturers and classmates often unaware of each other’s real identities, reflecting how…

More than 200,000 jobs could be eliminated across Europe’s banking sector by 2030 as lenders increase their use of artificial intelligence and reduce their reliance on physical branches, according to…

People buying and selling cryptocurrency in the UK must now share account and transaction details with tax authorities or risk penalties, following new reporting requirements that came into force on…

Electric vehicle drivers entering central London are now required to pay the congestion charge, ending a long-standing exemption as changes to the scheme take effect at the start of the…

Bulgaria has become the 21st member of the eurozone, adopting the euro and replacing the lev, a move that places the European Union’s poorest member state ahead of larger economies…

University spinouts across Europe have grown into a $398 billion startup pipeline, as venture capital increasingly flows toward deep tech and life sciences companies emerging from academic research, even while…

Taylor Swift dominated the UK music charts in 2025, as her latest release became the year’s best-selling album and women accounted for the majority of chart success, according to new…

Octopus Energy is preparing to spin off its Kraken Technologies division as a standalone company after selling a $1 billion stake in the AI-based platform, a transaction that values the…

A Cardiff-based startup has switched on a working furnace inside a factory orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth, marking a step toward manufacturing semiconductor materials in space under conditions that…

The chief executive of Everyman Media Group has stepped down with immediate effect, less than three weeks after the company warned that trading had been weaker than expected and cut…