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Amazon.com Inc is launching a home insurance portal in Britain and has signed up three big-name insurers as it pushes further into financial services across the globe.

Musk added that he believes Twitter has potential to be worth "an order of magnitude" more than it is now.

British banks are bracing for a potential tax hit to their profits as the government scrambles to plug an estimated 40 billion pound ($45 billion) hole in its finances.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss's insistence that she would not quit after sparking a financial crisis was met with howls of laughter, incredulity and shouts of "resign, resign" as she spoke in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss insisted she would not quit on Wednesday as she faced questions from booing MPs at her first Question Time session since abandoning her disastrous tax-slashing economic policies.

British inflation jumped back above 10 percent in September on soaring food prices, official data showed Wednesday.

European Union leaders meeting this week are set to endorse the bloc's latest proposals to curb energy prices, but pressure Brussels to go further and cap the price of gas used in power generation, according to a draft of their meeting conclusions.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Wednesday the treatment of a protester seen being pulled into the grounds of a Chinese consulate and beaten was "unacceptable" while the Consul-General said demonstrators had stormed its grounds.

A quartet of British fund managers said assets under management (AUM) dropped by $9.8 billion in aggregate in the three months to end-September, after a sharp sell-off in UK stocks and bonds in recent weeks compounded longer-held worries about a global slowdown.

In the quiet Romanian village of Vasilati, where most houses are heated with wood, people worry about their power bills even though Romanians consume the least electricity per capita in the European Union and many have cut back use all they can.

The German government approved a plan on Wednesday to spend 6.3 billion euros ($6.1 billion) over three years to rapidly scale up the number of charging stations for electric vehicles across the country, as part of its push towards net zero emissions.

A damning report Wednesday found that 45 babies who died at two British hospitals might have survived if their care had been up to standard, in the latest UK maternity scandal.

France's government acknowledged Wednesday that it had to "do better" on illegal immigration after it emerged that an Algerian woman charged with the murder of a 12-year-old girl had been ordered to leave the country.

Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store on Wednesday accused "foreign intelligence" services of being behind a recent slew of "unacceptable" drone flights in the country, indirectly pointing the finger at Russia.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss's humiliating budget U-turn shows how markets can wield influence over government fiscal policy.

Agent 21, now known as Harbor, is set to join the list of playable characters with the arrival of "Valorant" patch 5.08.

Blizzard is launching the Dragonflight pre-patch to introduce some of the features to gamers before the official launch of World of Warcraft's next expansion this November.

This day was created to bring awareness to the importance of centres and the accessible community services they provide to members of the LGBT Community

This "dramatic" accident has sparked debate over stricter regulations on France's hunting traditions.

This Friday's jackpot is £89 million.

Three winners were able to successfully bag the runner-up prize of £5,000 each.

Specialist Gustave "Doc" Kateb's Stim Pistol now heals allies for 200 health, a massive increase from the previous 40 hp.

An iOS 16 bug is affecting iPhone 14 users, who are getting SIM not supported messages before the screen freezes temporarily.

Google is reportedly working on a Pixel 7 Ultra model that might feature a large 1-inch camera sensor on the back.

Tipster Yogesh Brar has revealed the key specifications of the vanilla Samsung Galaxy S23 model ahead of its impending launch next year.

The Real Madrid forward has always kept his personal life relatively private.

The NFL and the Dallas Cowboys are also part of the complaint.

The model split from her husband Sebastian Bear-McClard after four years of marriage.

A Colombian footballer decided to distract his opponents by pulling down his shorts before a free kick - a move that was caught live on TV.