French President Emmanuel Macron faces an obstacle to his ambitions to develop a flagship Franco-German next-generation fighter jet programme — a mid-sized French defence contractor that one would have assumed would do his bidding. But family-controlled Dassault Aviation has long had an independent streak and outsized influence as the main provider of France’s homegrown combat … Read more
US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended their inflow streak to three sessions, with this week’s gains nearly offsetting last week’s outflows. Spot Bitcoin (BTC) ETFs recorded $166.6 million in inflows on Tuesday, bringing total inflows this week to $311.6 million, according to data from SoSoValue. Last week, the funds saw net outflows of $318 … Read more
EXCLUSIVE: David and Ariel Cunio, who were among the last Israeli hostages to be freed from Gaza after two years of captivity last October, will travel to Berlin next week for a screening of Tom Shoval’s A Letter To David – The Complete Version. The film is an updated version of A Letter To David, … Read more
Global investment manager Franklin Templeton announced the launch of an institutional off‑exchange collateral program with Binance that lets clients use tokenized money market fund (MMF) shares to back trading activity while the underlying assets remain in regulated custody. According to a Wednesday news release shared with Cointelegraph, the framework is intended to reduce counterparty risk … Read more
Trump administration has pressured Ukrainian leader to hold both votes by May 15 or risk losing security guarantees
Britney Spears has sold the rights to her entire music catalog to Primary Wave. Hits including “… Baby One More Time,” “Sometimes,” “Oops! … I Did It Again,” “(You Drive Me) Crazy,” “Lucky,” “I’m a Slave 4 U,” among many others now will be owned by Primary Wave, according to Rolling Stone and multiple outlets. … Read more
Spark announced the launch of Spark Prime and Spark Institutional Lending on Wednesday to channel more of its decentralized finance (DeFi) stablecoin reserves into institutional credit markets. Spark, a decentralized asset allocator whose core contributor, Phoenix Labs, previously helped design MakerDAO’s stablecoin and risk architecture, said its new suite is meant to let borrowers tap … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Heineken will cut up to 6,000 jobs over the next two years, amounting to about 7 per cent of its global headcount, as the Dutch brewer struggles with declining demand for beer. Beer volumes fell … Read more
The first big weekend of the 2026 box office arrives Friday with three major studio movies aimed at three different demos: women, families and guys over 25. However, the tallest of them all is the Jacob Elordi-Margot Robbie pic Wuthering Heights. Warner Bros. is eyeing a $70M-$80M global opening. The Burbank lot won the MRC … Read more
Her WAG era has come and gone! Rapper Cardi B and NFL wide receiver Stefon Diggs have been on quite the wild ride in their relationship. They kept it private for a while, then had a baby, then seemingly broke up right around the Super Bowl. To answer the question posed by Cardi’s September 2025 … Read more