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The United Arab Emirates has quit OPEC in a dramatic step that threatens to undermine the oil cartel's influence and...
Prime Minister Mark Carney's administration in Canada has delivered a promising spring fiscal statement, revealing deficits well below expectations due...
King Charles III addressed the U.S. Congress on Tuesday in a speech that blended celebration with diplomacy. The occasion marked...
British energy major BP has posted a surge in first-quarter profits, lifted by higher crude oil prices amid escalating conflict...
Last week, teams from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) carried out visits across several Bay of Plenty...
Businesses have welcomed the government’s agreement with Z Energy to establish an emergency diesel reserve, calling it a practical and...
ASB has moved in step with the other major banks, raising interest rates in response to continued pressure in global...
New Zealand First leader and Rail Minister Winston Peters has signalled he’s unlikely to back a proposed law change that...
Chinese regulators have scuppered Meta's planned $2 billion purchase of AI start-up Manus, intensifying the global battle for technological supremacy...
BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle giant that overtook Tesla as the world's top producer last year, faces serious claims of...
The numbers behind the noise The return of asset sales to New Zealand's political vocabulary is not ideological theatre. It is...
The quiet admission inside a loud announcement When Education Minister Erica Stanford confirmed on 28 April that NCEA will be abolished...
Nine months, another billion Halter closed a US$220 million (NZ$377 million) Series E today at a US$2 billion valuation, led by...
Hiding experience to get hired When a 52-year-old project manager with three decades of delivery experience starts deleting jobs from their...
The science is no longer ambiguous Forget the usual hedging around seasonal forecasts. The probability of El Niño forming has reached...
For years, a farmer wanting to survey paddocks with a drone faced the same regulatory pathway as someone testing experimental...