Europe

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…

French insect farming startup Ynsect has been placed into judicial liquidation after failing to overcome persistent revenue shortfalls and high capital costs, bringing an end to a company that raised…

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to suspend a policy that prevents companies from using WhatsApp’s business tools to distribute their own AI chatbots, citing concerns that the restriction could…

BP has agreed to sell a majority stake in its Castrol motor oil business for $6bn (£4.4bn), marking a significant step in its effort to reduce debt and refocus on…

France’s national postal and banking services were disrupted on Monday after a suspected distributed denial-of-service attack took key digital systems offline, according to statements from La Poste and its banking…