Ricardo Salinas Pliego’s advisors were first suspicious, then shocked. In 2021, they signed an agreement with Astor Asset Management – a fund said to be connected to the American gilded-age…
Cyber police in Germany say they have convinced a pirate operating an illegal movie streaming website to hand over 50,000 bitcoins worth EUR 2 billion, their largest haul to date.…
A huge cruise liner that was destined for the scrap yard because nobody wanted to buy it has been snapped up by Disney at the last minute. The sale price…
German scientists have deciphered one of the key adaptations of early photosynthesis by reconstructing billion-year-old enzymes. Using various methods, the research team from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Terrestrial…
The Swiss bank Credit Suisse is looking for a possible billion dollars in Nazi-looted money that may be hidden in one or more accounts in its books. It all started…
Two 'Robin Hood' brothers who allegedly stole almost a billion pounds after a software glitch left them with a bottomless bank account that never ran out of money have been…
Climate change has caused the Greenland ice sheet to lose 4,700 billion tonnes of ice over the last 20 years, enough to submerge the USA in half a metre of…
Many of the deep chasms found on the Martian surface were formed by massive floods from crater lakes that cracked through rock and shifted sediment 3.5 billion years ago. The…
Amsterdam is still facing losses of at least 1 billion EUR with 18 percent of its economy set to be hit if there is a ‘no deal’ Brexit despite winning…