Blockchain. Crypto. It's happening to investments, currency, food trucks. Yes, payments are possible

with crypto now. But it's not just happening to tortilla chips. Also, microchips. You can trade

tokenized real world and digital assets. So it's happening to assets, trading, industries,

economies, and pretty much everything else. And it's happening with Ripple.

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Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

This week, Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was sentenced in absentia to six months in prison by a domestic court. Nearly one year after she fled the country, our

correspondent analyses how its new leader is doing.

And say Ferrari, and we can all summon up the slick super-fast car.

Not quite so many of us actually own them.

And given the cost, most of us never will.

So how is the company still doing so well?

Yeah. So how is the company still doing so well? But first... It's been a humiliating week for Britain's Labour government.

Elected in a landslide and promising radical renewal,

it since had to scrap many of its plans to save money or to get its own party to back it.

Labour MPs backed what was supposed to be one of the government's flagship welfare reforms,

but only after ministers stripped out its most controversial elements.

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