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Student halls attract £7 billion in UK

  Bloomberg The cost-of-living crisis is driving demand for Britain’s student halls, as undergraduates hunt for tenancy agreements that lock in the price of their bills. Some £6.9 billion was invested in purpose-built student accommodation in 2022, a 62% year-on-year rise, according to broker Knight Frank. What’s more, £3.8 billion was spent in the final quarter, boosted by the £3.3 ...

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US, China pledge to talk more to avoid worsening tensions

  Bloomberg The top US and China economic officials held their first face-to-face meeting Wednesday, pledging to improve communication as a way to avoid more serious confrontation during a period of heightened tensions. “We share a responsibility to show that China and the United States can manage our differences and prevent competition from becoming anything ever near conflict,” US Treasury ...

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Ukrainian interior minister killed in helicopter crash

  Bloomberg Ukraine’s interior minister and at least 17 others were killed when a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten and a multistory apartment building just east of Kyiv, according to police. The emergency services aircraft went down in the town of Brovary, an eastern suburb of the capital, Ihor Klymenko, the national police chief, said on Facebook Wednesday. The fatalities ...

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