William Lee Adams

That's how the Danish foreign minister described talks between the U.S., Denmark, and Greenland, despite fundamental disagreement over the future of the Arctic island.

President Trump's interest centers around defense, and Greenland is also rich in natural resources like critical minerals.

There are only two active mines on the entire island.

The Canadian company Amarok operates one of them, a gold mine, and it has licenses to explore large parts of the territory.

Amarok shares have doubled in value since last summer.

Its CEO, Elder Olofsson, is optimistic despite the current dispute.

So how can the situation be resolved?

Elder Olofsson, CEO of Amarok.

And Donald Trump has announced new tariffs on chipmakers NVIDIA and AMD as part of a deal with the technology giants to take a 25% cut of sales of their AI processors to China.

The BBC's Archana Shukla explains how this is going to work.

Archana Shukla there.

All right, let's see the numbers.

The U.K.

economy grew by 0.3% in November to hit a five-month high that was driven partly by a rebound in production at Jaguar Land Rover following a massive cyber attack.

And in Sweden, telecoms equipment group Ericsson says it will lay off some 1,600 employees.

Now, you may know of the global obsession around Korean skincare and makeup known as K-beauty.

South Korea has surpassed the U.S.

to become the world's second largest cosmetics exporter after France.

The BBC's Suranjana Tiwari has been looking into the industry.

That's Surin Janatawari reporting.