McIlroy used pre-tournament media duties at the Dubai Desert Classic to assert that Hatton and Jon Rahm should settle their seven-figure penalties due to the European Tour Group for their participation in LIV Golf. McIlroy's sentiment felt especially notable because he was to spend the opening two rounds at the Emirates Club in Hatton's company. Yet there appeared no ill feeling whatsoever between the Ryder Cup teammates; as evident on the course and by what Hatton said later.
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The builder of the superyacht Bayesian, on which British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch died, has launched a £400 million legal claim against his widow, alleging that the tragedy caused a catastrophic collapse in its sales. The Italian Sea Group (TISG) has filed a €456 million (£399 million) lawsuit in a Sicilian court, claiming that the yacht's crew and the vessel's holding company were responsible for the sinking and the resulting damage to the company's reputation and revenues. Lynch, the former chief executive of Autonomy, died alongside his teenage daughter Hannah and five others when the £30 million superyacht capsized during a violent storm off the coast of Sicily in August 2024. His wife, Angela Bacares Lynch, survived the incident and is the legal owner of Revtom, the Isle of Man-registered company that owned the vessel.
On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron appeared before the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland the annual Alpine gathering of the global elite to declare that now is not a time for new imperialism or new colonialism. This, of course, was a reference to the current ambitions of Macron's counterpart in the United States, Donald Trump, who, in addition to recently kidnapping the president of Venezuela and repeatedly threatening to seize the Panama Canal,
Beneath Terminals 1 and 2 is a conveyor belt network the size of seven GAA pitches Most passengers stop thinking about their luggage the moment it disappears behind the rubber flaps at check-in. What happens next - whether it makes the flight, where it goes, how it's checked and tracked - is largely a mystery. Behind the scenes at Dublin Airport, a vast, constantly moving system is working to make sure bags and passengers are reunited at the end of their journeys.
"Gardaí were alerted to a suspicious package at a premises in West Clare earlier this evening, Wednesday, January 21, 2026," a garda spokesperson told the Irish Independent. "A cordon was put in place around the area and the services of the Defence Forces Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team requested. "The package was subsequently deemed safe, and the cordon has been lifted. "Investigations are ongoing."
General Walker said in a rare speech to defence leaders and senior military ranks that the UK is facing a "convergence of threats." He warned that war could break out between 2027 and 2028 unless the West steps up quickly with putting more money into defence for a strong deterrence. He warned of Russia's war in Ukraine, China eyeing Taiwan, North Korea with their weapons testing in preparation for possible conflict and Iran with their nuclear programme, all of this creates a dangerous prospect.
"We are open, available, and interested," "I wouldn't consider it a smart choice for Italy and Europe to exclude themselves," "For us, there is a constitutional compatibility issue ... This certainly doesn't allow us to sign tomorrow."
Germans enjoy some of the most generous employee illness policies in Europe, a fact which the conservative chancellor, Friedrich Merz, says is undermining efforts to kickstart the EU's biggest economy whose growth has largely stalled since 2022. At a regional campaign event last weekend, Merz said staff took an average 14.5 sick days per year too high, he said. That's nearly three weeks in which people in Germany don't work due to illness, he said.
Host Dana Bash asked how Trump's comments were received by European leaders. Negatively, hugely negatively, Robertson told her. He pointed to Trump chiding Macron for wearing Top Gun-style sunglasses to cover up a burst blood vessel in his right eye. Trump joked they were beautiful and asked, What the hell happened? The light ribbing came after Macron poked fun at Trump's claim that he has ended eight wars during his speech on Tuesday.
Atos announced on Wednesday that it expects revenue of €8 billion in 2025, in line with previous forecasts. The organic revenue decline will be 13.8 percent. The French IT company continues to struggle with contract losses, but CEO Philippe Salle sees customer confidence gradually returning. The company, once considered a crown jewel of the European tech sector, emerged from a major debt restructuring at the end of 2024. That restructuring reduced its debt burden by €2.1 billion.
The Iryo train that crashed on Sunday in Adamuz in the Spanish province of Cordoba displays marks on the wheels of the first five carriages that passed over the track before its derailment, as evidenced by the work carried out by Spain's Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF). These marks, up to the size of a coin, could coincide with the break in the track at kilometer 318 of the Madrid-Seville line, which is where the tragic accident occurred, leaving 42 people dead.
Alexei clears his throat without showing the slightest expression on his face. Squatting and wearing gloves, he shakes the military uniform that once belonged to a man. The jacket and trousers still hold their shape, but inside there is nothing. Just air. Alexei pulls out a worn, stained piece of paper from one of the pockets. Andrei. Moscow, he reads aloud. There's a phone number written here. Good. It helps us trace his origin. Whoever he was, he was a Russian soldier.
The design has been revealed and it is a sun-like structure that is inspired by Leonardo's intricate knot patterns. Leonardo spent almost 25 years of his life in Milan and many of his most famous works are from his time in the city. The cauldrons have been designed to open and close with a diameter that expands from 3.1 meters to 4.5 meters and will contain the Olympic flame at their core, encased in a glass and metal container.
The crunch moment in Google's antitrust battles with the Justice Department over its ad tech stack looms ever closer, with Justice Leonie Brinkema expected to issue her remedies ruling by the close of Q1. While these deliberations take place in the chambers of a courtroom in the Eastern District of Virginia, developments elsewhere underscore the political undercurrents at play, namely the push to limit Big Tech's power.
In January 2018, when Donald Trump was in the second year of his first term as US president, Angela Merkel, in her 13th year as German chancellor, gave a gloomy speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. She opened her remarks with a warning from Europe's past. Politicians had sleep-walked into the first world war. As the number of surviving eyewitnesses to the second world war dwindled, she added, subsequent generations would have to prove they understood the fragility of peace.
A major hotel operator with properties in Austria has filed for bankruptcy proceedings covering around 140 of its companies, with more than 100 establishments affected. The Revo Hospitality Group said all hotels would continue operating, but it has not yet specified which Austrian sites are included, according to Kleine Zeitung. The filing was made at the Charlottenburg district court in Germany and covers roughly 140 group companies, including 125 hotels employing around 5,500 people in Germany and Austria.
Europe faces increasingly sophisticated hybrid attacks on every area of its infrastructure, the EC claims. The revised Cybersecurity Act looks to address this with union-level risk assessments, combined with targeted mitigation measures that will include bans on IT components from "high-risk suppliers." The suggested timeframe for this could leave member states with as little as three years to remove non-compliant kit.
Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, can rarely be described as looking happy. His brick wall of a face and somber voice, worn down by many years of smoking Marlboros, have earned him the nickname "Minister No." But when the question of Greenland came up yesterday at his press conference in Moscow, Lavrov seemed to come alive, even permitting himself a smile and a chuckle as he talked about President Trump's imperial designs on the Danish territory and the response from NATO allies.
Rory McIlroy has challenged Tyrrell Hatton and Jon Rahm to demonstrate their commitment to the Ryder Cup cause by settling fines for their LIV Golf participation. McIlroy pointed towards motivation used by Europe during victory at Bethpage last September after it emerged the United States players were paid to play the Ryder Cup. The switches of Rahm and Hatton to LIV has drawn fines totalling several million pounds due to tournament conflict with the DP World Tour, where both remain members.
"Calm down the hysteria," Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday. "Take a deep breath." He was urging European counterparts and journalists not to read too much into the current kerfuffle over President Donald Trump's desire to annex Greenland, which was followed by the threat of new U.S. tariffs on a group of European countries standing in solidarity with Denmark.
Ireland remains cautious about deploying the so-called "big bazooka" economic mechanism against the US, despite Europe moving closer to using the trade weapon in response to threats to take Greenland. Amid reports that Germany is moving towards supporting France in its call for EU member states to ask the European Commission to unleash the Anti-Coercion Instrument, Ireland has remained coy on its position and is instead calling for dialogue to avert an all-out trade war.
