Bloomberg The UK is encouraging consumers to cut their energy use as part of a campaign aimed at scaling back demand for power and natural gas in the face of soaring bills this winter. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government started its long-awaited public energy-saving campaign, just as the country emerges from a week of freezing temperatures that caused demand to ...

  Bloomberg Headspace Health, the maker of a popular meditation and mental-health mobile app, cut about 50 jobs, or 4% of its workforce, the latest internet startup to scale back as funding dries up and economic growth decelerates. The Santa Monica, California-based company had about 1,200 workers before eliminating the positions, a spokesperson said. Headspace competitor Calm, another meditation app, ...

  Bloomberg On the outskirts of Cape Town, at the base of Table Mountain and set back from a tangle of freeways, the Liesbeek and Black rivers meet in a small stretch of marshland. The 37-acre plot isn’t pristine — it lies next to a railyard and was until recently home to a golf course — but for centuries, this ...

Bloomberg Explosions were heard on Monday in Kyiv as the city government said drones further damaged the capital’s critical infrastructure. That followed a warning by an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Russia could sharply escalate the war in a winter offensive driven by mass infantry and that Western allies needed to be prepared. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ...

Bloomberg North Korea said it carried out the final tests of a military spy satellite, publishing a pair of black-and-white overhead images of South Korea’s capital region in an attempt to show the device worked. The country announced the breakthrough via state media, a day after South Korea said its rival lobbed at least two suspected medium-range ballistic missiles through ...

  Bloomberg Thailand’s Navy is searching for 31 officers stranded at sea after a vessel sank on Monday during a storm. As of noon local time on Monday, 75 officers have been rescued out of 106 on board the HTMS Sukhothai corvette, which sunk 37 kilometers (20 nautical miles) offshore in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, according to a navy tweet ...

Bloomberg Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim won a confidence vote in parliament, as he looks to prove the coalition he put together after last month’s election can govern effectively following years of political instability. Anwar won the support of the majority of lawmakers in a voice vote, according to Speaker Johari Abdul. The prime minister’s choice for parliamentary speaker earlier ...

  Bloomberg Cyril Ramaphosa comfortably won re-election as head of South Africa’s governing party just weeks after a scandal threatened to derail his political career, and now faces an uphill battle to rebuild its flagging support heading into a national vote in 2024. Rampahosa allies also won most of the African National Congress’s (ANC) other six top party positions, giving ...

  Bloomberg The UK government’s flagship immigration policy plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda is lawful, London judges ruled. The plan, which involves flying asylum seekers arriving in Britain some 4,000 miles (6,437.4 kilometres) to the African nation to be processed according to Rwandan laws, spurred several legal challenges from human rights campaigners. The government has consistently backed the ...

  Bloomberg India’s largest private bank HDFC Bank Ltd is seeking to issue a million credit cards a month, a remarkable bounce-back for the lender after the country’s regulator banned it from taking on new card clients two years ago. The bank wants to double the current pace of half a million new credit card issuances every month, according to ...