Investors and employees at Swiss bank Credit Suisse are growing nervous following the news that the financial institution has collapsed. On Monday afternoon Australian time (Sunday local time), investment bank Credit Suisse announced that it was going to be absorbed by the country’s largest bank and its main rival, UBS,Continue Reading
The $5 billion deal that will see Credit Suisse fall into the arms of arch rival UBS was a reaction to the ripples from the failure of two smaller banks in the US and jitters in the financial markets. But the seeds of the destruction of the 167-year-old Swiss institutionContinue Reading
No one wants to sit on the toilet in a public bathroom and be able to make eye contact with strangers washing their hands, right? I recently returned from a trip to the United States and each time I travel there, one of my favourite things to do is makeContinue Reading
A British adult model who murdered her boyfriend is now demanding conjugal visits with her new partner in prison. Abigail White, 24, was locked up for life after stabbing Bradley Lewis, 22, to death when he broke up with her in March 2022, The Sun reports. The self-dubbed “fake Barbie”Continue Reading
The King has left his grandchildren Prince Archie and Princess Lili out of his coronation plans. And that is a huge mistake. I wonder if, one day, Princess Lilibet, currently seventh in line to the throne and the only member of the British monarchy born on US soil and surroundedContinue Reading
Swiss bank UBS has agreed to take over its troubled rival Credit Suisse after doubling its offer to $US2 billion ($3 billion) amid crisis talks aimed at sparing the embattled bank — which was worth about 7.4 billion francs ($11.9 billion) on Friday — from a bloodbath when the marketsContinue Reading
Fernando Alonso’s joy has turned to heartbreak in an instant in Jeddah on Monday morning (AEDT) after being stripped of his 100th podium finish for failing to serve a 5-second penalty correctly. Alonso briefly became the sixth driver in the history of the sport to reach a century of podiums,Continue Reading
China is angry that Australia’s building eight submarines. Meanwhile it’s busily expanding its own fleet to 70. It’s part of what Chairman Xi Jinping this week declared will be a “Great Wall of Steel”. And neighbouring countries are increasingly worried they’ll get trapped behind it. In the first speech ofContinue Reading
When you think of fragrance, two places often come to mind: Paris and New York. France is widely known the “undisputed home of perfumery”, thanks to a mixture of homegrown technical expertise and an abundance of raw materials behind some of the most iconic scents. New York is famed forContinue Reading
A powerful bloc of countries has joined forces to challenge the European Union’s ban on internal combustion powered vehicles by 2035. In February this year the EU approved plans to cut tailpipe emissions by 100 per cent by 2035, signalling the end of new petrol and diesel-powered vehicles. But GermanyContinue Reading