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Zimbabwe's anti-corruption body has wrapped up its probe into sketchy election procurement deals worth over $100 million, and they say there's nothing to see here. The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission found zero evidence tying flashy businessman Wicknell Chivayo or the Zimbabwe Electoral...

Windows has been logging every folder people click on through something called Shellbags, and the feature basically acts like a forensic diary that survives even after users delete files or unplug external drives. Microsoft built it to remember view preferences and window positions, but privacy...

The EU is backing off its hardcore ban on gas and diesel cars after Germany and Italy basically said the 2035 cutoff was unrealistic. European People's Party president Manfred Weber confirmed the combustion engine prohibition is getting scrapped, and manufacturers will just need to slash average...

Leon just got bought back by co-founder John Vincent for somewhere between $30 million and $50 million, and the fast-food chain is already filing for administration to shut down money-losing locations and cut staff. Vincent grabbed the company from Asda after it changed hands back in 2021 for...

William Hill's parent company Evoke just announced it's shopping itself around after getting wrecked by debt and brutal tax hikes on online gambling. Morgan Stanley and Rothschild are handling the sale process, but the company warned there's no guarantee anybody will actually buy them. The group...

Britain is about to drop a massive compliance headache on companies that use gig workers and freelancers, and most business owners have no clue it's coming. The government wants to extend right-to-work verification rules to cover casual labor across industries like construction and food...

Britain's economy shrank for the second straight month as GDP dropped 0.1 percent, which nobody saw coming since forecasters thought things would bounce back. The slump happened because people and companies basically froze up before the Chancellor dropped the Autumn Budget, and services got hit...

The guys who started UK payments company GoCardless are cashing out after agreeing to sell to Dutch competitor Mollie for around $920 million. CEO Hiroki Takeuchi and his co-founder, Tom Blomfield, who also helped launch Monzo, are looking at a serious payday from the deal, which will mostly be...

The Office for Budget Responsibility got hammered with almost 240,000 cyber attacks over the past year, which is wild considering they just leaked the Chancellor's Budget by accident a few weeks back. Richard Hughes quit as chair after the flagship fiscal document showed up online before Rachel...

A cross-party Westminster group focused on investment scams and financial reform just picked new leadership after their annual meeting at Portcullis House. John McDonnell from Hayes and Harlington is taking over as chair, backed by vice chairs Sarah Bool, Lord Davies of Brixton, and Ben Lake...

Britain's live entertainment sector is begging the Prime Minister to rethink the new Business Rates system, saying the policy is about to wreck grassroots music venues, jack up arena ticket costs, and kill thousands of jobs. Industry leaders sent a letter to No. 10 warning that the Valuations...

A Goldman Sachs International exec is saying UK small businesses are getting spooked by government policy chaos, and the main issue is nobody knows what taxation and employment rules are going to look like down the road. Kunal Shah dropped this ahead of some event celebrating Goldman's small...

A California defense startup worth $30 billion is teaming up with a British engineering company to build parts for autonomous fighter drones on the Isle of Wight, and the whole thing depends on winning a Ministry of Defence contract. Anduril Industries, founded by the guy who made Oculus VR...

Elon Musk's rocket company is apparently gearing up for a massive public offering that could hit a $1.5 trillion valuation, and people are saying this might happen sometime next year. The listing would pull in over $30 billion and rank as one of the biggest stock debuts ever, sitting just behind...

Mike Ashley's Frasers Group just grabbed the Designer Outlet in Swindon, which pulls over three million shoppers annually and sits inside an old railway works building. CEO Michael Murray says owning prime shopping real estate fits their strategy of controlling both the stores and the actual...

The UN torture watchdog just called out Pakistan for keeping former Prime Minister Imran Khan locked up under conditions that might cross into actual torture territory. Alice Jill Edwards said the 72-year-old politician has been stuck in solitary confinement for over a year at Adiala Jail in...

South Korea just hit its former acting president Choi Sang-mok with criminal charges over the wild martial law situation that went down under President Yoon Suk Yeol. Special Prosecutor Park Ji-young announced the indictment alongside charges against ex-Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, saying both...

A UN official just told Nepal to actually enforce its anti-discrimination laws after finding that the government keeps ignoring its own constitutional protections for Dalits and other marginalized groups. Nicolas Levrat said Nepal has solid legal frameworks on paper, but the enforcement is...

A UN expert is calling Bangladesh's forensic work on 114 unidentified protest victims from the summer a major step toward getting answers and holding people accountable. Morris Tidball-Binz visited the country to help with the investigations and said the process could strengthen their forensic...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker just signed off on medical aid-in-dying legislation that lets terminally ill adults request prescription medications to end their lives, but the program does not kick off until September 2026. Patients need confirmation from two doctors that they have less than...