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China escalates crackdown on cryptocurrency trading.

Spotify’s IPO threatens to disrupt Wall Street.

Ryanair wants to buy parts of Austrian airline Niki.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has left VC firm Fenbushi Capital.

Dolores O’Riordan, lead singer of the Cranberries, dies at 46.

CVS bans photo manipulation for store beauty brands.

Ford unveils a high-performance electric SUV.VC investment in Europe surged 26.9 percent in 2017, thanks to U.K. startups’ mega-rounds.

Pope Francis warns the world is at the brink of nuclear war.

Photo: British pounds and Euro banknotes are pictured in a bank at the main train station in Munich, Germany, June 24, 2016 after Britain voted to leave the European Union in the EU BREXIT referendum.  Reuters/Michaela Rehle