Scotland ‘likely to miss net zero climate target by up to 20m tonnes’

Exclusive: Top officials and climate policy experts believe delays in cutting emissions make it improbable 2045 target will be met

Scotland is likely to miss its legally binding climate target …

Source: The Guardian

FirstFT: German election winner Friedrich Merz promises ‘independence from US’

Also in today’s newsletter, Zelenskyy offers to step down in exchange for peace, and Singapore fund managers face lengthy licence delays

Source: Financial Times

How the Trump and DOGE terminations — perhaps the biggest job cuts in history — may affect the economy

The Trump administration's federal mass job cuts may amount to the largest in history. That has financial ramifications for households and the economy.

Source: CNBC

Forensic science centre that inspired BBC show Traces at risk of closure

All 24 jobs at Dundee University’s Leverhulme research centre could be axed because of £30m budget deficit

Dundee University’s world-leading forensic science research centre, which inspired the hit BBC drama …

Source: The Guardian

No Exit

About 300 migrants from all around the world were deported from the United States to Panama. There, they were trapped in a hotel, facing a choice of whether to return …

Source: New York Times

Startup founders are turning to 'seed-strapping' in a difficult funding environment

Seed-strapping is the "Goldilocks version" of bootstrapping and venture capital, Josh Payne of OpenSky Ventures tells CNBC.

Source: CNBC

Germany: High turnout predicted for snap elections

German voters head to the polls on Sunday with the conservatives as the strong favorites after an intense campaign underscored by a far-right surge. Figures showed that around 52% of …

Source: France 24

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy offers to leave office in exchange for peace, NATO

Ukrainian president has been criticised by US President Trump, who called him a 'dictator'.

Source: Al Jazeera

Trump’s first 100 days: all the news affecting the tech industry

President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden …

Source: The Verge

Israel expels residents of three West Bank refugee camps

Israel's defence minister says the camps are now "empty" and would be occupied by the Israeli military.

Source: BBC

All the news about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs

Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and …

Source: The Verge

When we politicise everything we make society stupider

By losing our ability to see things at face value we are losing our grip on reality

Source: Financial Times