Healey faces £35bn Budget challenge to meet spending pledges, says think tank

BBC - Oct 12, 2026

The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the government will need a "top-up" of billions of pounds if it wants to meet its spending plans.

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Why some have no choice but to pay costly oil prices

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The rural communities vulnerable to heating oil prices rises as the weather gets colder.

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'Prepare for the unthinkable' warning over autumn flooding

Oct 12, 2026

Those living in flood-hit areas say they are worried, and have started preparing.

Campaigners claim minister attempting to undermine 'Holiday Hunger Bill'

Campaigners claim minister attempting to undermine 'Holiday Hunger Bill'

Oct 12, 2026

The education minister has warned it would immediately cost his department £20m a year at a time when it is already struggling to balance its budget.

Japan data leak concerns grow as 1.67 million JR East email addresses may be exposed

Japan data leak concerns grow as 1.67 million JR East email addresses may be exposed

Oct 12, 2026

Japan has urged banks to adopt chip-enabled passports and MyNumber cards for customer verification after a wave of cyberattacks raise concerns about millions of personal records.

Documents falsified to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

Documents falsified to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth

Oct 12, 2026

Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds.

Starlink vs Jio: Can Elon Musk make satellite internet affordable in India’s cheap data market?

Starlink vs Jio: Can Elon Musk make satellite internet affordable in India’s cheap data market?

Oct 12, 2026

Elon Musk says he will bring affordable Starlink satellite internet in India, challenging Reliance Jio’s dominance in the country’s low-cost data market ahead of its proposed IPO. 

Hong Kong workers fear AI-driven disruption to retirement but only 20% feel prepared: survey

Hong Kong workers fear AI-driven disruption to retirement but only 20% feel prepared: survey

Oct 12, 2026

More than half of Hong Kong’s working adults believe artificial intelligence will make their retirement path more unpredictable than previous generations, yet only one in five feel financially prepared for the shift, according to a survey by global asset manager T. Rowe Price. About 55 per cent of the 1,004 Hong Kong residents surveyed, all aged 30 and above earning at least HK$15,000 (US$2,239) per month, expect AI-driven disruption to destabilise their long-term career and income...

China’s factories leaping straight into agentic AI and taking it global: Black Lake CEO

China’s factories leaping straight into agentic AI and taking it global: Black Lake CEO

Oct 12, 2026

China’s manufacturing sector is leapfrogging straight into the era of agentic artificial intelligence and is now exporting that playbook to global supply chains, according to the CEO of Black Lake, a Chinese provider of cloud-based AI tools for factories. “Just as China skipped credit cards and jumped directly to mobile payments, many factories are skipping full traditional digitalisation and jumping directly to AI agents,” Zhou Yuxiang said in a recent interview with the South China Morning...

Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried

Why My Conversations with OpenAI’s ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ Made Me Very Worried

Oct 12, 2026

A new mode includes a study tool, but it still does a user’s homework. And a children’s safety nonprofit says the chatbot flunked its tests.

China's growth offers opportunity over shock, experts say

China's growth offers opportunity over shock, experts say

Oct 12, 2026

After four days touring the frontlines of China's economic evolution, from Xinyu, an age-old manufacturing hub reinventing itself with advanced industries, to the bustling entrepreneurial engine of Wenzhou, the cradle of the country's private sector, a group of former international political leaders and scholars converged in Beijing on Sunday for the Mingde Strategic Dialogue 2026.

Beijing moves to steady A-share market after sharp tech sell-off

Beijing moves to steady A-share market after sharp tech sell-off

Oct 12, 2026

China’s top securities regulator has signalled fresh support for the domestic A-share market, convening a symposium over the weekend as authorities sought to shore up sentiment following a sharp sell-off in technology shares driven by concerns over US sanctions. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) brought together executives from listed companies and experts from securities firms and fund managers at a meeting in Beijing on Saturday to “discuss the country’s capital markets and...

China’s CXMT unveils ‘key progress’ on chip structure pursued by Samsung, SK Hynix

China’s CXMT unveils ‘key progress’ on chip structure pursued by Samsung, SK Hynix

Oct 12, 2026

China’s memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has reported “key progress” in a new structure that rivals Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are also working on to boost memory density. CXMT planned to roll out a new server-memory product based on the structure by the end of 2026, president Cao Kanyu said at an industrial event in Shanghai over the weekend, according to a company statement. At the centre of the development is the “4F square” design, in which each memory cell...

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