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A person raises their arm during civil unrest in Paris, France. REUTERS/Abdul Saboor
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- President Emmanuel Macron appealed for calm a day after France suffered one of its worst days of unrest in years, with thousands arrested and shops looted or damaged after protests over high prices and declining public services.
- Macron declined Interior Minister Laurent Nunez's offer to resign after widespread weekend rioting, the Elysee presidential office said.
- Residents in Limoges recoiled in horror at the city's fire-ravaged town hall, an ornate 19th-century neo-Renaissance building which survived two world wars but was torched by a masked mob during the worst unrest to convulse France in years.
- "We cannot maintain public services at the levels that we want them to be and keep retiring at this age." The Econ World podcast examines the real reason France is in fiscal trouble. Listen now.
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A Kashmiri roadside vendor sells fruits in a market area in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir. REUTERS/Sharafat Ali
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- Global food inflation is poised to accelerate in the coming months and persist well into 2027, as war-related shipping disruptions and El Nino-driven drought squeeze cereal supplies, putting additional pressure on vulnerable consumers.
- Indonesian capital markets were battered on Monday, with stocks hit by a record two-day rout as an expulsion warning from MSCI scared off investors, heaping pressure on Jakarta to respond to the index provider's long-standing concerns.
- AI lab Anthropic, the developer of Claude, said it will commit 5% of its shares to a new public benefit fund so it has increased flexibility and scale to make donations for the "public good."
- China's economic growth bounced off three-year lows in the third quarter, as roaring exports offset consumers' tight grip on their wallets, though analysts warn the growing reliance on external drivers is deepening structural imbalances.
- Volkswagen plans to freeze salaries for its 660,000 staff worldwide until 2030, the group's works council said. The absence of pay rises could mean a loss of income of around 10% for those affected, due to inflation.
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A staff member demonstrates the testing process in the sensory area at Coty's fragrance maker. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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From cherry and banoffee pie to tabasco and sesame, the list of food aromas popping up in luxury fragrances keeps growing. Now some perfume makers are starting to ask if weight-loss drugs might be reshaping what consumers want in a scent.
This is the first story in a five-part Reuters series on how weight-loss drugs are changing the way people shop and eat, and how companies are responding to the trend.
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American television producer Chuck Lorre poses for a portrait at Warner Bros. Studios. REUTERS/Daniel Cole
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Chuck Lorre, the television writer and producer behind “The Big Bang Theory” and “Two and a Half Men”, joins Reuters Culture Current to reflect on his career, the key to great comedy, and why he remains optimistic about television.
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