A fall in the value of the pound has seen a spike in the number of tourists visiting the shores of Britain. The office for national statistics (ONS) said the U.K. welcomed a record 10.75 million foreigners in the second quarter of 2017, the highest level since records began back in 1980. Sterling’s fall against […]

Cars have emerged as a preferred “weapon of choice” for terrorists, former NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton told CNBC on Friday after deadly attacks in Spain. “It’s low cost, low tech, very high impact and it follows the al-Qaeda and ISIS instructions to use guns, bullets, bombs and cars,” Bratton said on “Squawk Box.” A manhunt […]

Data which can track our psychological behavior is “something very powerful” and could be the key to tackling unhealthy habits, according to the CEO of a fitness app. British firm Earthmiles incorporates elements of the Quantified Self, a movement that aims to use the data acquired from aspects of an individual’s daily life – from […]

A manhunt is underway in Spain as police search for the driver of a van that plowed into pedestrians on Barcelona’s busiest boulevard Thursday, leaving at least 13 people dead and more than 100 injured. The perpetrator was seen escaping on foot after deliberately driving into crowds of people on Las Ramblas, at around 5:30 […]

Police in Catalonia, Spain said early Friday that they have killed perpetrators of a “terrorist attack” in the town of Cambrils. The police statement did not make clear whether officers believed they had killed perpetrators of some new attack, or if they believed they had killed those responsible for the attack that took place late […]

Barcelona police said a van drove into pedestrians in Barcelona’s city center, injuring multiple people on Thursday. Law enforcement has not specified whether the incident was intentional or accidental in nature. Authorities are urging people to avoid the area around Placa Catalunya. A man on a bus tweeted out a video at the location of […]

Following moves by China and Japan to regulate digital currencies, Australia is attempting to crackdown on money laundering and terrorism financing with plans to regulate bitcoin exchanges. “The threat of serious financial crime is constantly evolving, as new technologies emerge and criminals seek to nefariously exploit them. These measures ensure there is nowhere for criminals […]

Insolvent German airline Air Berlin aims to strike deals to sell assets to two or more buyers by the end of September, before a government loan keeping its planes in the air runs out, itschief executive said. The group is in talks with a total of three aviation firms, including Lufthansa, German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine […]

Google Lunar XPRIZE, the space exploration competition sponsored by Google, is offering additional prize money to finalists who can complete two in-space missions as it extends program’s deadline to 2018. Entrants whose space crafts can complete one orbit around the moon or enter a direct descent towards it, can secure $1.75 million, while those that […]

The British government has defended its plans to establish a “frictionless” border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic post-Brexit, saying that the plans are both workable and mutually beneficial. In a white paper published Wednesday, the government said that there should be no border posts separating Britain from its only EU land neighbor and […]