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Cactus leather, recycled carbon fibre and vegetal rubber: low-impact materials are the new prestige in luxury watches ADVERTISEMENT The ‘Oscar’s of the watchmaking world’, the Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève (GPHG), take place on 13 November with a prize for “eco-innovation” making its debut. It will be presented to one of the 90 competing timepieces featuring watchmaking developments placing particular …

Updated: 06/11/2024 – 16:55 GMT+1 Expo Cannabis 2024, South America’s largest cannabis fair, recently rolled into Buenos Aires, featuring cannabis, medicinal mushrooms, wellness workshops and legal discussions. …More

The maker of the Camry sedan and Lexus luxury models revealed that a production stoppage that followed a certification scandal and model recalls had dented sales. ADVERTISEMENT Japan’s biggest car maker, Toyota, saw profits for the July-September period sliding to less than half of what they were in the same period last year. The maker of the Camry sedan and …

In a three-hour hearing held on Wednesday, Maria Luís Albuquerque rejected calls to slash insurance laws to boost the economy, while brushing off conflict-of-interest fears from her own private sector career. ADVERTISEMENT The US must implement post-crisis banking rules, despite fears an incoming Trump administration could slash regulatory protections, Portugal’s pick to be EU financial services commissioner told a European …

Radical and far-right forces are gaining ground across the European Union with their ideas increasingly weighing on issues ranging from immigration to agriculture. Could defence be one of them? ADVERTISEMENT Boosting Europe’s defence capabilities after years of underinvestment is a goal broadly shared by leaders across the European Union – but how and to what extent are still big questions, …

The former president appears to have clung onto a hotly contested state that Democrats worked hard to pick up. ADVERTISEMENT Donald Trump is projected to have won the state of North Carolina, netting him 16 Electoral College votes and dealing a blow to Kamala Harris’ hopes of adding a state to the Democrats’ column after Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. While …

The nominees for the key European energy and environment commissioner roles faced a grilling by MEPs on Tuesday evening. Danish candidate Dan Jørgensen sailed through to clinch the energy portfolio, but the fate of Sweden’s candidate to implement the European Green Deal hangs in the balance. ADVERTISEMENT Danish social democrat Dan Jørgensen is on his way to being energy and (an …

Demonstrators gathered in Serbia’s second-largest city and regional capital on Tuesday evening after a rail station awning collapse killed 14 people, demanding accountability from officials. ADVERTISEMENT Thousands gathered in the centre of Serbia’s second-largest city of Novi Sad on Tuesday, fuelled by outrage over last week’s collapse of a concrete awning at the rail station that killed 14 people. Some …

The two have repeatedly been at odds throughout the war against Hamas in Gaza, now in its second year, and widening conflict in the Middle East. ADVERTISEMENT Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dismissed his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in a surprise announcement made Tuesday evening, citing “crisis of trust”. Foreign Minister Israel Katz will replace Gallant, Netanyahu said, explaining …

A Scottish zoo is hoping its newborn pygmy hippo will become a social media star. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland reports that Haggis is doing well. “It is amazing to see her personality beginning to shine already,” said Jonny Appleyard, hoofstock team leader at Edinburgh Zoo. “The first 30 days are critical for her development, so the pygmy hippo …