By Reuters Published November 6, 2025 Euro zone retail sales unexpectedly fell in September, challenging expectations for a consumption-led recovery and offsetting other mildly positive news from the 20-nation currency bloc, data from Eurostat showed on Thursday. A shopper carries shopping bags as she walks on a street in Paris, France, June 10, 2022 –…
Today, we’re launching the File Search Tool, a fully managed RAG system built directly into the Gemini API that abstracts away the retrieval pipeline so you can focus on building. File Search provides a simple, integrated and scalable way to ground Gemini with your data, delivering responses that are more accurate, relevant and verifiable. To…
Published November 6, 2025 The word ‘dupe’ has always been guaranteed to send a chill through the spine of any luxury executive, associated as it is with cheaper versions of their high-end products, many of them of poor quality. But a new study from Havas Media calls the existence of dupes “luxury’s unexpected ally”. hermès.com…
Esme Stallard,Climate and science reporter, BBC News and Matt McGrath,Environment correspondent, BBC News Aaron Chown/Getty Images The Prince of Wales spoke at the global climate meeting of world leaders President Trump was under attack on Thursday as world leaders lined up to criticise his stance on climate change ahead of the global COP30 summit. The…
“We are composed not only of human cells and microbes but also fragments of others…” Lois Fordham/Millennium Images Hidden GuestsLise Barnéoud, translated by Bronwyn Haslam, Greystone Books My children were conceived using donated eggs, so you would be forgiven for assuming we share no genetic material. Yet science has proved this isn’t entirely true. We…
As AI agents are adopted at scale, developer teams can create dozens to hundreds of specialized Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, tailored for specific agent use case and domain, organization functions or teams. Organizations also need to integrate their own existing MCP servers or open source MCP servers for their AI workflows. There is a…
Published November 6, 2025 UK footwear giant Clarks continues making big steps internationally, now launching three dedicated Cloudsteppers brand standalone concept stores in Southeast Asia and the United States adding a further 10 locations to those regions next year. Image: Clarks And for the first time the brand will introduce women’s and men’s apparel/accessories to…
Throughout history, new technologies — from the printing press to the internet — have reshaped how we learn. Today, through the growth of AI, we’re at the start of the next big step. The world has made incredible progress in expanding access to education, with 90% of primary school-aged children now enrolled in school. But…
Jacob, outfitted with a tracking collar, lost his left hind leg in a poacher’s snare Alex Braczkowski A lion that lost one leg to a poacher’s snare has defied the expectations of conservation scientists by adopting an inventive new hunting strategy. Jacob, an 11-year-old lion in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, made headlines last year…
Authored by KFF’s Jen Kates and Boston University’s Debbie Stenoien and Allyala Nandakumar as well as independent consultant Michael Ruffner, this post for ThinkGlobalHealth identifies and examines several key issues and questions that lie ahead for the America First Global Health Strategy — the first roadmap for what comes next for the President’s Emergency Plan…
