Just shy of a week out from the annual UN General Assembly, when world leaders, diplomats, and spies swarm on New York, the US ambassador to the UN (Linda Thomas-Greenfield) has touched on the touchiest of topics: reforming the UN Security Council (UNSC).

If we had to identify the one place with the highest per-square-inch density of raw and undiluted international intrigue, there’s a decent chance we’d end up pointing at a private jet. It’s where so much wealth and power can often intersect.

While US President Joe Biden kicked off Labor Day early on Rehoboth Beach, he kept his team busy by sending his national security advisor (Jake Sullivan) on a three-day trip to Beijing.

In the global game of musical chairs, Modi has chosen to hover politely between seats. Sometimes (like last month) that means a hug with Putin the same day Putin’s missiles hit a children’s hospital in Kyiv. Other days (like today, Friday), it means arriving in Kyiv after a quick visit to one of Ukraine’s top backers (Poland).

With protests roaring outside, 13 hours of debate came to an end inside Argentina’s senate yesterday (Thursday) when Vice President Victoria Villarruel broke a tie, passing a package of watered-down economic reform bills, 37-36.

We’re normally pretty suspicious of anyone who substitutes their ‘s’ with a ‘z’ to look cool, but we’ll give the UK-based ‘Kantar BrandZ Report 2024’ a pass (or is it ‘pasz’?).

If you close your eyes and picture an old-school trading floor, you can almost feel the chaos — the trades lost, the prices shouted, the egos stroked. But despite all that thrill, markets really want nothing more than to anticipate events.

While picking up an honorary degree, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also dropped a speech in Germany yesterday (Tuesday) ahead of this week’s G7 finance ministers meeting.

War bloggers and small-time weed dealers alike will have woken up this morning to some pretty bad news for their favourite messaging app.

In the late hours of Saturday as you were fast asleep or deep in a Negroni haze, Elon Musk was closing shop on X’s Brazil offices, putting the blame squarely on one man – Brazilian supreme federal court judge, Alexandre de Moraes. 

It’s been a rough week for big tech and chip-maker stocks.

The US State Department issued a ‘Statement of Concern’ on Monday, warning that critical minerals bought from the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are fuelling the ongoing conflict in Central Africa.