Good morning. US allies are set to plead with Donald Trump to stand behind Ukraine. Airbus is about to eclipse a record that Boeing has held for decades. And Gen Z Germans are shunning beer. Listen to the day’s top stories.
UK latest: Home prices fell almost £11,000 during the summer lull, property website Rightmove said. A recovery in British living standards may be coming to an end, with predictions wage growth is set to slow as consumer prices spike. Here’s a look at how the economy has lost its edge over Italy and slipped further behind France over the past decade.
Hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets yesterday to protest Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to expand operations in the Gaza Strip. Separately, Israel’s economy unexpectedly shrank as its 12-day war with Iran imposed a total shutdown on many businesses.
The EU wants to unleash trillions of euros in household savings by encouraging people to invest in capital markets—taking inspiration from Sweden’s model. Meanwhile, Italy’s government plans to lower taxes for the middle class in the 2026 budget, the deputy finance minister told Il Messaggero newspaper.
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The narrowbody, already in use for more than a decade, had reshaped the airline industry by making shorter routes cheaper and more profitable to operate.
By 1988, when Airbus began producing its upstart A320, Boeing had built a formidable lead by delivering some 1,500 of its cigar-shaped best-seller.
It’s taken the better part of four decades, but Airbus has finally caught up: The A320 series is poised to overtake its US competitor as the most-delivered commercial airliner in history, according to aviation consultancy Cirium.
The AI clones are coming but it’s not all bad, Parmy Olson writes. For people who make money off their expertise, clones offer a route to scaling up their business. That could widen all that know-how and ease workloads—if used wisely.
Nein to alcohol. For many Gen Z Germans, beer is no longer a daily ritual. Those who drink do so rarely, and a growing number are choosing booze-free options—forcing breweries to adapt or close down.
