Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater in New York City, June 12, 2025. Vincent Alban/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo |
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Onlookers watch during the launch of Chery's new range of cars at Montecasino in Johannesburg, South Africa, June 20, 2025. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko |
- Chinese automakers are pushing to unlock Africa's underdeveloped potential, with a focus on electric and hybrid vehicles, as restrictions on exports to the US and Europe send them on a global quest for new markets.
- A first public test of robotaxis by Tesla in Austin, Texas led to multiple traffic problems and driving issues, videos from company-selected riders showed over the first few days. For more on the industry, sign up to the Auto File newsletter.
- A federal judge ruled for Meta against a group of authors who had argued that its use of their books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system infringed their copyrights.
- Two Dutch consumer groups are seeking affected customers for a legal claim against Booking.com, one of the world's largest online travel agencies, over what they described as inflated hotel prices since 2013.
- The dollar sank to a three-year low while world stocks notched their second record high in three days as a report that Trump was planning to choose the next Federal Reserve chief early fuelled fresh bets on US rate cuts. For more, watch our daily rundown on financial markets.
- CoreWeave, Circle Internet Group and Chime Financial all enjoyed dizzying success after their stock market debuts. In this Viewsroom podcast, Breakingviews columnists explain why investors are scrambling to own these companies and how scarcity may be adding to their allure.
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Hungary's LGBTQ+ community reels under Orban's new laws, Pride ban |
Vivien "Vivi" Winkler and Laura "Lau" Toth at the afterparty of the Pride Month opening event in Budapest, Hungary, June 7, 2025. REUTERS/Marton Monus |
Lau and Vivi, a young lesbian couple in Hungary, often hold hands walking through Budapest's streets. However, Lau has started to have troubling second thoughts about this show of affection since the government ramped up its anti-LGBTQ+ campaign. Right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who casts himself as a defender of what he calls Christian values from Western liberalism and whose supporters are mostly rural conservatives, has passed several laws affecting the lives of Hungary's LGBTQ+ community over the past decade. |
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The young gas giant planet is about the same mass as Saturn. Reuters/Am Lagrange et al/JWST/ESO |
In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various already-known planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets. Now, for the first time, Webb has discovered an exoplanet not previously known. |
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