Seven Greek islands in the Aegean Sea have declared drought emergencies this year to conserve water, as a warming climate brings hotter summers and increasingly unpredictable rainfall. With the dry conditions taking hold, authorities are now anxiously asking whether next year will…
Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar announced on Sunday that he intends to invite Judit Polgar, widely considered the finest female chess player in history, to take on the mostly ceremonial position of the country’s next president. Writing on Facebook, Magyar said the…
A record year for Australian EV sales could not save the local distributor model. TrueEV's receivership, and a Federal Court judge's finding that the evidence points to an inability rather than an unwillingness to pay, make it the test case.…
Spain's extra-time win is the closing scene of FIFA's biggest commercial bet, a $13 billion tournament whose final nearly failed to produce a goal.…
Java Factory didn’t set out to launch 52 original coffee flavors in 52 consecutive weeks. That activation, Flavor52, which began on June 29, 2026, was never the plan. It was the inevitable outcome of seeing something the coffee industry had missed and…
Money gets loud at the top. Success brings advisers, opinions, private deals, tax puzzles, family pressure, and a calendar full of people asking for a piece of attention. InVestra has built its name around a quieter promise: give wealthy female executives room…
On a working weekday in Sydney, during peak hour, lanes of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Cahill Expressway went quiet. There was no accident and no roadwork. George Miller needed a live motorway for Mad Max: Fury Road, and a small…
Most tax firms step in after the fact. Ally Tax Group Inc. was built to do something different. Under Marina V. Painter’s leadership, CPA, PFS, the firm is built around the belief that clients deserve strategy, guidance and a trusted ally long…
Myrte Scheffer has spent the better part of a decade trying to prove a thesis that still makes plenty of executives uneasy: that purpose and profit are not competing priorities but the same one, viewed from different angles. This year, that work…
In Sugarcreek, Ohio, the Belden Brick Company has been firing clay into brick since 1885. Its bricks hold up walls at the Alamo and the University of Notre Dame. For most of that history, the electricity bill was a line item nobody…
