Gamescom Opening Night Live takes place Tuesday, August 25, 2026, with a 7:30 p.m.
Neom has reportedly reached a standstill after more than $50 billion in spending, while its 2026–2030 budget includes about $16 billion to terminate or unwind contractor agreements.
Eurozone inflation rose to 2.9% in July 2026, above the ECB’s 2% target, but Mārtiņš Kazāks said the September meeting should be decided by incoming data—not treated as a guaranteed rate hike.
Ukraine sought permission to use Starlink equipped drones against Russian ballistic missile launchers and supporting infrastructure up to 200 km inside Russia.
Global smartphone shipments are forecast to fall about 14.3% in 2026 as DRAM and NAND shortages raise prices; Samsung is expected to grow 0.8% and could retake the shipment lead from Apple, but the broader r...
Arthur Hayes’s core argument is that spot Bitcoin ETFs such as BlackRock’s IBIT are now the cleaner traditional market route to Bitcoin: they track BTC near net asset value without Strategy’s debt, dilution...
Russia and Myanmar are turning their relationship into an energy and infrastructure partnership centered on Dawei, but the project remains a memorandum stage proposal rather than a completed investment.
Tesla appears to have ended new Solar Roof tile orders in August 2026 after installing roughly 3,000 systems since its 2016 launch—far below its 1,000 per week ambition.
The shortage is likely to make 2026–27 a supply constrained, higher priced and more concentrated smartphone market, with recovery pushed toward 2028.
The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to deny Mahmoud Abbas a visa for his planned September 24, 2026, UN General Assembly address, repeating last year’s restriction.
China is adding targeted fiscal-financial support rather than launching a broad, debt-funded stimulus. The approach is meant to lift household and service-sector demand while preserving room to manage local-...
As of August 21, 2026, Moscow is framing Armenia’s closer relationship with the EU as incompatible with continued EAEU membership.