Category World

First edition of The Hobbit sold for €49,000

A ‘rare’ first edition copy of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit, found during a Bristol house sale, has sold at auction for £43,000 (€49,000). According to auction house Auctioneum, it is just one of 1,500 copies printed in September 1937 and…

Interest rates cut to 4% as UK inflation rises

UK interest rates have been cut to their lowest since March 2023 despite the Bank of England’s forecasts of a sharp rise in inflation due to rising food prices. The central bank decided to cut interest rates to 4% from…

Kremlin says Trump to meet Putin in coming days

A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump has been agreed upon, a Kremlin spokesman said, and could take place next week at a location that has already been broadly decided. “On the initiative of the…

Trump’s sweeping tariffs take effect

President Donald Trump was set to formally begin levying higher import duties on dozens of countries on Thursday, just as the economic fallout from his months-long tariff threats began to take a toll on the U.S. economy. The White House…