Crypto: Confidence crisis brew as auditing firm halts work

The world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance has revealed that the auditor Mazars has stopped working with it as outflows from platform swelled to $6 billion following the collapse of FTX earlier in the week. The website offering digital trading cards showing Donald Trump in guises such as a superhero, astronaut and Nascar driver says the items have already sold out. The announcement drew criticism and mockery, including from Republicans. And as the month-long FIFA World Cup tournament draws to a close, we evaluate how the competition not only proved to be a tourism boom for host Qatar but also for neighbour – the UAE and in particular – Dubai. (Its a difficult time for Cryptocurrency. Credit:Getty)