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The Frenchwoman whose husband is on trial for inviting 50 men to rape her over a period of 10 years has accused them of "cowardice" and said they should have reported him to the police.Gisele Pelicot, 71, has waived her right to anonymity and gave evidence for the third time in Avignon on Tuesday. Her husband Dominique Pelicot, 72, has already admitted drugging and raping her, and allowing some 50 others to abuse her while she was unconscious.Most of the other men deny rape, claiming they thought she was asleep as part of roleplay or they were forced to have sex with her by Mr Pelicot.On Tuesday, Ms Pelicot told the courtroom: "For me, this is the trial of cowardice, there is no other way to describe it." She went on: "It is time for society to look at this macho, patriarchal society and c...

Geopolitics are raining on the stock market's parade, but other trades are working. U.S. stock futures fell Tuesday as tensions between Ukraine and Russia intensified. Contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 539 points, or 1.2%. S & P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures shed 1.1% each. Russian President Vladmir Putin warned Tuesday that the threshold for using nuclear weapons has fallen. The Kremlin's stance now is that Russia would consider using such weaponry if it — or its allies — were met with "with the use of conventional weapons that created a critical threat to their sovereignty and (or) their territorial integrity." That follows news that Ukraine hit a Russian border city with U.S.-made missiles. Global equities were also under pressure. The German DAX fell more than 1%...

Moscow signaled to the West that it's ready for a nuclear confrontation after Ukraine was given permission to attack Russian territory — and appeared to quickly act on that greenlight — using U.S.-made long-range missiles.Kyiv appeared to waste little time after reportedly being given the go-ahead by Washington Sunday to use U.S.-made ATACMS missiles against specific targets. Ukrainian news outlets reported early Tuesday that the missiles had been used to attack a Russian military facility in the Bryansk border region.Russia then confirmed the attack, with the Ministry of Defense confirming that Ukrainian forces had "struck a facility in [the] Bryansk region" using six ballistic, American-made ATACMS missiles. The ministry claimed air defense missile systems had shot down five of the missi...

Despite rising competition, Nvidia holds 80% of the fast-growing market for artificial intelligence chips as the tech industry's graphics processing unit, or GPU, of choice for making and deploying generative AI software.What investors will want to see when Nvidia reports its third-quarter earnings on Wednesday is whether it can continue to grow at a fierce rate, even as the boom in AI enters its third year.Nvidia is entering "uncharted territory" as it attempts to continue growing on a $3.5 trillion market cap, wrote HSBC analyst Frank Lee in a report this week."We have pondered this amazing growth trajectory and not only do we see no signs of a slowdown, we expect further upside in 2026 data center momentum," Lee said in his note. He has a buy rating on the stock.Future growth will have ...

On Monday, British tech lobby group Startup Coalition warned in a blog post that there was a risk Reeves' tax plans could result in a tech "brain drain.". (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)Oli Scarff | Getty ImagesVenture capital investment in European technology startups is projected to decline for a third straight year, according to VC firm Atomico — but there are signs that things are finally stabilizing as valuations improve and interest rates fall.Europe's venture-backed startups are expected to secure $45 billion of investment by the end of 2024 — slightly lower than the $47 billion they raised last year, Atomico said Tuesday in its "State of European Tech" report.Still, Atomico said this shows that European tech funding levels have finally "stabilized" despite worsening global macro...

Howard Marks, co-chairman, Oaktree Capital.Courtesy David A. Grogan | CNBCBillionaire investor Howard Marks said he was hopeful about China's economy, but cautioned that the country's growth target was a monumental challenge."I'm still optimistic on China's long-term possibilities, as long as they execute well and as long as they remain constructive with regard to the rest of the world," the co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management said.Marks told CNBC's Emily Tan on the sidelines of the third Global Financial Leaders Investment Summit hosted by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority that "Even though the growth rate they [China] are targeting sounds modest compared to their history, it's still very much above average for for the rest of the world, and will represent a Herculean challenge."Chin...