Economics

Microsoft Outlook is currently experiencing a widespread outage, affecting a large number of users who are unable to access their Outlook and Hotmail accounts and are instead stuck in repeated login loops.

Manufacturing output in Singapore increased by 10.1 percent year on year in March, bringing total growth for the first quarter to 7.9 percent, according to official data released on Monday.

Europe has been forced to pay an additional €27 billion ($32 billion) for oil and gas imports since the outbreak of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday.

Plans to build Europe’s largest casino in Azerbaijan have sparked both excitement and debate, as the country looks to reposition itself as a major tourism hub. The project, announced by businessman and People’s Artist, Emin Agalarov, is set to rise along the Nardaran beachfront near the Sea Breeze resort in Baku. With its sheer scale and ambition, the development is already being compared to a regional version of Las Vegas.

S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow futures stalled on Monday as investors reacted to a report that Iran has put forward a proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, ahead of a crucial week for markets filled with Big Tech earnings and key central bank policy signals.

Banks in Singapore are working with the city-state’s industry body to monitor emerging threats posed by frontier artificial intelligence models, the director of the Association of Banks in Singapore said on Monday.

ChatGPT has achieved the highest scores in this year’s entrance examinations for the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, two of Japan’s most prestigious universities, surpassing the top-performing human candidates, according to an AI venture on Monday, News.Az reports, citing Kyodo.

Toyota Motor Corp. said on Monday that it sold a record 10.48 million vehicles worldwide in fiscal 2025, marking a 2 percent increase from a year earlier.