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The reported plan would use joint ventures with private firms and several federal agencies to promote dollar-denominated stablecoins abroad. Its stated aims include reinforcing the dollar's reserve status and driving demand for US Treasuries, though no official confirmation has been given.
The Central Elections Committee voted to exclude Ra'am and the Joint List, and separately disqualified two Arab legislators. The decisions have no final effect yet — the Supreme Court must approve them, and appeals are expected next week.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the extension after meeting Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Washington. The two sides now have more time to resolve outstanding issues or negotiate a wider deal, though no new terms were announced.
People Incorporated, which owns 27% of MGM, withdrew its $48.30-per-share cash offer after several months of negotiations. MGM shares fell 10% on the news, hitting their lowest level in seven months.
The two leaders discussed AI safeguards and the war in Iran, though no broad agreement was expected. On Wednesday, the countries agreed to extend their trade truce for two more months beyond its November deadline.
The Torcal will be built at Bentley's Crewe headquarters on a new production line backed by a £350m investment. It promises 375 miles of range and a 0–60 time of 3.3 seconds — and arrives after Bentley quietly dropped its target of going fully electric by 2030.
The decade-long programme offers rent relief and capital support, but investors were rattled by the remodelling bill franchisees still face — at least $1.2 million per US location. The company also warned that customer traffic is likely to stay flat while inflation remains elevated.
Delcy Rodríguez told the UN General Assembly a vote would come as part of a transition to "full democracy". She gave no date, the opposition is pressing for 2027, and the country's most prominent opposition figure remains barred from the talks.
Neria Leiter, a reservist, was hit at the Maccabim checkpoint west of Ramallah. His father, Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, said he believes his son 'needs a miracle'.
Xi Jinping arrived at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, greeted on the tarmac by Trump in an unusual diplomatic gesture. The two sides also agreed to extend their tariff pause, which had been due to expire on November 10, giving both governments more time for talks.
Israel's prime minister used his UN General Assembly address to defend the military campaign in Gaza and attack New York's mayor as an antisemite. A UN inquiry and genocide scholars have concluded Israel committed genocide; the International Court of Justice case is unresolved.
The Israeli prime minister rejected genocide accusations over Gaza and praised US-Israeli strikes on Iran, as dozens left the chamber in protest. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas put the opposing case by video link after being denied a US visa.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the invitation after meeting Russia's foreign minister in New York. The Kremlin says no decision has been made — and Putin has an active International Criminal Court warrant for crimes against humanity.
The horror film cost $10 million to make and was directed by Kane Parsons, a YouTuber who was 19 during filming. It ranks tenth on IMDb's all-time list of highest-grossing horror films.
Around four in five young workers want to move up in their careers, and nearly half want feedback from their boss at least weekly. But just 19% see secure employment as realistic, and more than half say financial pressure is pushing major life decisions back.
The AMC Kips Bay 15, the only IMAX cinema on Manhattan's East Side, is set to close at the end of 2026. More than 3,200 people have signed a petition to save it, and seven elected officials have written to NYU Langone demanding answers — so far without a response.
The first globally comparable survival estimates for childhood leukaemia put the rate at 80–90% in wealthy nations and around 40% where diagnosis and medicines are harder to reach. The WHO wants at least 60% global survival by 2030.
A new paper argues that campfires extended evening social time by about four hours and created conditions poorly suited to gesture. Spoken storytelling, the authors suggest, filled the gap — and may have driven the development of complex language.
Sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific have already topped 3°C above normal, and Berkeley Earth projects a peak near 4°C in November — which would make this the strongest El Niño ever recorded. Citigroup has estimated a super El Niño could cause up to $7 trillion in global economic losses over five years.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has issued a health advisory and stepped up screening for travellers from countries with active transmission. The DRC has recorded 7,672 confirmed cases, with the response hampered by gaps in funding and laboratory capacity.
The Chinese tech giant is targeting more than 20 gigawatts of global capacity by 2032, a build-out Citigroup says could underpin $160 billion in cloud revenue. The push comes months after the Pentagon listed Alibaba as a Chinese military company.
The money goes to CEPI's 2027–2031 strategy, which aims to have vaccines ready within 100 days of a new threat emerging. The fund is still seeking the bulk of its $2.5 billion target.
The platform answers clinical questions using peer-reviewed research and treatment guidelines. It was used 42 million times by US clinicians in August, and will now be offered free to healthcare providers across dozens of low- and middle-income countries, including Uganda, Sudan and Haiti.
The two companies have signed a production agreement, with integration due to begin within two years. It is Wayve's first deal in the premium segment, built on a partnership that predates Mercedes-Benz's investment in the London startup's $1.2 billion funding round earlier this year.
The two leaders met in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and agreed to cooperate on liquefied natural gas, space infrastructure and critical minerals. Canada is also in talks to become the EU's first associate member.
Ship-to-ship transfers in the Gulf of Oman have risen to around 2.5 million barrels a day in September, up from 1.4 million in August. But drone strikes on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline and Houthi control of Red Sea approaches have left the shuttle system with fewer fallback options.
Genomic data from 103 species combined with 44 fossils points to a European origin, challenging earlier theories that placed bats in Asia, Africa or North America. The research also confirms that powered flight and echolocation both appeared near the very start of bat evolution.
Ray-Ban Meta Audio keeps calls, music and AI but drops the camera that got the existing model barred from pubs, theatres and schools. Meta says the design has been in development for two years, not rushed out in response to the backlash.
The European Commission wants to publish annual sustainability labels for larger data centres, covering efficiency, clean energy sourcing and waste heat reuse. The move comes as EU data centre capacity is expected to more than double by 2030, and the Commission is also consulting on whether to make minimum efficiency standards mandatory.
A survey by China's state asset regulator found Broadcom equipment accounts for as much as 90% of switches in some facilities. No formal ban has been issued, but informal guidance to scale back could follow.
The mobile money arm of Bharti Airtel had been seeking between $1.5 billion and $2 billion. It is now targeting a valuation of $8 billion to $9 billion, with a prospectus expected in early October.
Routes to Baghdad, Muscat, Qatar, Georgia and Azerbaijan were suspended on Wednesday as a US deadline expired for foreign companies to stop servicing Iranian carriers. Thousands of travellers have been pushed towards land crossings through Turkey and Armenia.
The world's largest crypto exchange paid roughly 5% below market price for its shares and is locked in for two years. It will promote and integrate USDC across its platform, with a focus on emerging markets.
The cruise operator is moving into land-based resort ownership for the first time. The deal, which values Sandals at $6 billion, gives Royal Caribbean joint control of 20 Caribbean properties alongside the founding Stewart family.
Qatari diplomats mediated the discussions in New York, the first major contact since June. A senior Iranian official said Tehran could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if Washington eases military and economic pressure.
A University of Chicago study projects extreme heat from this year's super El Niño could kill 451,000 people worldwide between June 2026 and February 2027. Africa's Sahel and Southeast Asia face the heaviest toll, with Nigeria alone projected to lose 31,400 lives.
Masoud Pezeshkian used his UN General Assembly address to accuse the US and Israel of terrorism and reject Trump's demand that Iran never possess a nuclear weapon. He said Tehran remained open to talks, but not under pressure.
Washington is withholding a visa for Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, tying his attendance to a 90-day truce proposal that Sudan's military has resisted. The UN secretary-general says he is deeply concerned and is pressing the US to honour its host country obligations.
US firms still hold the frontier in advanced AI models, but China has narrowed the lead to under 3%, according to Stanford researchers. It now accounts for more than nine-tenths of global humanoid robot shipments and has over two million robots working in its factories.
A shipment heading from Australia to the US for repairs was rerouted by a Lockheed Martin intermediary, and some parts vanished. The incident has sharpened concern about the Pentagon's control of F-35 equipment — a 2023 audit found more than a million spare parts had gone missing over five years.
Abbas Araghchi says his delegation will use the platform to defend Iran's rights and interests. He described the trip as taking place in what he called a continuing state of war, and is expected to hold talks with foreign ministers during High-Level Week.
The two sides will use a joint mechanism to identify goods eligible for tariff cuts, and set up a hotline for AI safety incidents. The fate of their trade truce, which expires on November 10, is expected to be left to the two presidents to decide.
The Tigray People's Liberation Front took control of airports including Mekelle's and launched offensives in Afar and Amhara. The group has also joined an alliance of seven armed factions seeking to remove the government in Addis Ababa, putting the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement under serious pressure.
Now downgraded to Category 4, the storm is not expected to hit Mexico's Pacific coast directly. But heavy rain is forecast for Guerrero state, where roads are already damaged and flooding and mudslides remain a serious risk.
Mahamat Said Abdel Kani was found guilty on four counts, including torture and persecution of prisoners in Bangui. He is the first Seleka member to be convicted by the court; sentencing will be set at a separate hearing.
One RAF Voyager based in Cyprus will support Saudi defensive flights in a time-limited arrangement, Prime Minister Andy Burnham announced on Monday. The mission will not support Saudi strikes against the Houthis.
A new study finds that collisions reshape subsurface oceans on icy moons rather than creating them. Size is decisive: larger moons gain heat that can sustain an ocean for up to two billion years, while smaller ones may lose the insulating layer that keeps water liquid.
Cases have been recorded across three health centres in Kutum locality, where one doctor serves the area and the nearest clinic can be five hours away. Health workers warn that without urgent action, the outbreak could spiral into an epidemic.
Airstrikes struck Kunar and Paktika provinces early Monday. Afghan Taliban officials said three members of one family were killed; Pakistan claimed it had hit suicide bomber training facilities and killed 28 fighters, a figure that could not be verified.
Theja Rio's debut feature, set in 1960s Nagaland and filmed mostly in Konyak, is the first non-English-language Platform Prize winner to receive automatic entry for Academy Awards international feature film consideration. Rio, 31, was born in Nagaland and is based in London.
The 209-foot crossing over Interstate 25 in Douglas County cost $15 million and is projected to prevent more than 300 highway-speed crashes a year. At that rate, it could pay for itself in two to three years — a fraction of the usual 15-year return for wildlife crossings.
The new measurement of the gravitational constant differs from a leading 2007 result by 7.3 standard deviations — far beyond what the uncertainties of either experiment would predict. Researchers say they cannot yet tell whether the gap reflects a hidden flaw in one of the measurements or something not yet understood about gravity itself.
The horror director built his reboot around an original story with no legacy characters, drawing fan anger but glowing reviews. It opened to $60 million and sits at the top of Rotten Tomatoes' video game movie rankings.
Microscopic hair-like structures lining coral polyps actively draw in oxygen-rich water — a mechanism discovered only in 2014. Lab experiments show they slow near 37°C and stop entirely at 39°C, suffocating the coral.
The Lahore-born, New York-based painter opens 'Someone Like You' in London on 2 October 2026, showing 19 works — all new to Britain — that explore queer South Asian identity, solitude and belonging. The show runs to January 2027.
Several executives have named the Irish actor the leading contender for a first Oscar nomination. He plays Ian Charleson, who performed a legendary Hamlet at London's National Theatre while dying of AIDS.
The detection adds South Sudan to a regional outbreak already affecting two-thirds of Uganda's districts and seven counties in Kenya. How far the disease has spread beyond the farm, and how many pigs are affected, remains unknown.
The exchange, which handles nearly 90% of global stock index options volumes, has set its share price range lower than investors were told to expect. Options trading on its platform has fallen 27% from its 2024 peak, and several major sellers have cut the size of their stakes in the deal.
Researchers at Bristol and Oxford tracked all 104 matches and logged 65,722 junk food and drink brand appearances — more than seven in ten of all harmful product advertising visible during live play. UK viewers alone were estimated to have seen 267 billion impressions.
The children were toddlers in Crimean orphanages when Russia seized the peninsula in 2014. They were granted Russian citizenship and placed with adoptive families — and Ukrainian authorities have had no information about them since.
The Torrance startup will test its electricity-producing Mark-1 reactor in 2027 and demonstrate its R1-S design on the ground before integrating it with a spacecraft. The award aligns with US targets to put nuclear reactors in orbit as early as 2028 and on the lunar surface by 2030.
The assistant referred to a private conversation the user says he never authorised it to see, then told him it had accessed notification previews. Meta later said that explanation was wrong and that Muse simply didn't understand its own workings.
FTSE Russell formally upgraded Vietnam from frontier status, a move that could bring up to $8 billion in foreign investment over 12 months. The gains will arrive slowly: inclusion runs in four tranches through 2027, and analysts say much of the early buying had already happened before Monday's effective date.
The Minnesota Lynx guard needed just her first basket against the Connecticut Sun on Sunday to move past Clark's mark of 769 points. Miles reached 771 in the same number of games Clark played in 2024 — despite missing several games earlier this season.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent discussed the proposal with Chinese officials in New York on Sunday. Neither side has said what would qualify as a reportable incident, or how the system would work in practice.
The Pontes service connects DLT trading platforms to the ECB's existing TARGET payment system, letting banks settle digital assets in ECB-backed euros rather than stablecoins. Thirteen institutions including Deutsche Bank and Santander were live at launch, with round-the-clock operation planned by mid-2028.
AI agents are beginning to initiate and route payments inside enterprise workflows, but a technically valid transaction can still lack proof that the agent was authorised to act. Banks, payment networks and compliance vendors are building verification layers to test authority, provenance and evidence before funds move.
Tom Siegel, who founded Google's trust and safety team, has joined Common Sense Media to lead its Youth AI Safety Institute. He warned that suicide, psychosis and cognitive offloading were among the potential harms, and that companies could not tackle the risks without outside help.
Saudi Arabia aims to restart about half the capacity of its East-West pipeline within days, after drone strikes forced a shutdown last Friday. The disruption is deepening an already tight market: the IEA has raised its forecast for this year's global oil deficit to 1.7 million bpd and pushed back any surplus to 2027.
Sam Altman plans to attend Wednesday's session, called by France during the UN General Assembly. DeepSeek's founder will not appear, and the format — public or closed-door — has not yet been confirmed.
The accord, signed at the UN General Assembly, amends the 1951 defence treaty and allows the US to expand its military presence and build new structures without Danish or Greenlandic approval. It must clear national parliaments before it takes effect.
A High Court found the men guilty on all charges, including murder and conspiracy to commit terrorism, after a five-year trial. Sentencing was due later on Tuesday.
Fariba Hashimi, 23, fled Afghanistan after the Taliban returned to power in 2021 and now lives and trains in Italy. She finished second in the women's road race near Nagoya having arrived without a mechanic and with minimal preparation.
The money is being redirected from Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq to Panama, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. The State Department says it will help secure the Panama Canal and counter Chinese influence in the region.
More than 400 responders and four aircraft are fighting the blaze, which was about half contained on Monday. It is one of 18 active wildfires across Colombia amid El Niño-driven drought and record temperatures.
Fourteen defendants were found guilty on all counts, including murder and terrorism charges, after a five-year trial. Each of the 15 received a 220-year prison term.
President Trump says the US is negotiating a major fertiliser purchase from Belarus at below Canadian prices. But Alexander Lukashenko says this year's production is already contracted, leaving the commercial case for any large deal unclear.
Iranian authorities closed the French Language Centre under a judicial order, accusing it of building networks among elite figures and helping them leave the country. France called the move unjustifiable and summoned Iran's ambassador, as the two foreign ministers prepare to meet in New York on Tuesday.
Foreign ministers meeting in New York condemned Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and warned that the escalation threatened global energy and trade. The UK has separately agreed to send Royal Air Force tankers to support Saudi aircraft, a mission that could last weeks.
The president says he supports halting US diesel exports to bring pump prices down. His own energy secretary warns a ban could raise fuel costs on the coasts, and no decision or timetable has been set.
The cuts fall hardest on Halo Studios and central management, and bring Xbox three quarters of the way through a planned 3,600-job overhaul. Ninja Theory has entered consultation over a proposed closure after two deals to find a buyer fell through.
France and Luxembourg secured the exemptions as part of a deal extending EU sanctions against around 3,000 Russian individuals and entities until 2029. Ukraine called the decision shameful, with Zelenskyy warning that wars are not won through concessions.
Some 130 heads of state are expected to speak at the General Assembly in New York, with conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and beyond topping the agenda. Secretary-General António Guterres will open the session — and his second term ends in December, with no successor yet in sight.
The Iranian delegation walked out after hearing the threats. It is unclear whether their departure signals a lasting break in negotiations or a tactical response to Trump's language.
Almost two million people are under evacuation orders as the storm brings winds of 144km/h and rainfall that could break September records. Two people have died and four are missing.
The fine covers a period between 2018 and 2020, when the DPC found Google was tracking people's movements without being clear about what it was collecting or how long it was keeping it. Consumer groups criticised the eight years it took to reach a ruling.
Workers at an Austrian gravel plant dredged up 540 fragments representing at least 500 uniform double-pointed bars, enough iron to forge 500 swords. Researchers believe a commercial vessel sank while carrying the cargo downstream some 2,000 years ago.
New bilateral agreements lock in a 59% reduction across 18 countries by 2030 — roughly $2 billion less than pre-2025 spending. Rwanda faces a 97% cut, and the freeze on HIV programme funding has already closed more than 1,700 clinics and cost 16,000 jobs.
One system, trained on 40,000 four-dimensional cell films, grouped drugs by mechanism of action with 75% accuracy — nearly 20 points better than flat 2D images. A separate physics-based digital twin models what is physically happening inside the cell. The teams plan to combine them into a single workflow.
Three British World Central Kitchen workers were killed when Israeli drones hit their convoy in Gaza on 1 April 2024. The coroner is considering giving the Israeli military and the commanding officer formal standing in the proceedings, which may also examine a RAF surveillance flight over Gaza that day and alleged UK-made components in the drone used.
Front and back develop from entirely distinct cell populations that never overlap — a pattern preserved across species for at least 550 million years. The discovery has already allowed scientists to grow functional hindbrain motor neurons in the lab for the first time, opening a new path for research into ALS and other brainstem diseases.
The independent review rejects the 'snowflake generation' claim, saying the rise in distress since the 1990s is real. Emergency department visits by children in mental health crisis rose 36% between 2019 and 2025, with school pressure, social media and loneliness all implicated.
Prison officials rejected Lasha Bugadze's The Observer for a jailed activist, claiming the title was ambiguous. PEN Georgia said the decision was political, not literary.
A major study finds that AI has sped up literature review, coding and hypothesis generation, but physical experiments, approvals and senior researchers' time haven't kept pace. Four in ten scientists say their backlog of untested ideas is growing.
Gilbert, a founding member of the Florida pop-punk band, had undergone surgery, radiation and emergency brain surgery since his diagnosis in 2021. He returned to performing just three months before his death and is survived by his wife Lisa Cimorelli and their five-year-old daughter Lily.
The block covers seven domains and was ordered by a government copyright body, not a judge. Authorities have not named the complainant or the specific material said to be at issue.
More than 300 local moratoriums and bans have been adopted across the country, and project cancellations jumped from 6 in 2024 to 25 in 2025. Estimates suggest that a smaller share of planned power capacity faces genuine delay, but the political resistance is now active in 49 states.
Jane Street's loss came as AI and semiconductor stocks reversed sharply — its first negative month since 2016. Regulators want to know how bank lending to large nonbank traders holds up when correlated positions fall fast.
"Father Country I Do Love You" spreads across all six floors of the New York museum's spiral rotunda — the first time any artist has filled it entirely. The 42-chapter show follows the agent's career through the major events of 20th-century American history.
A retrofitted Cessna travelled from California to North Carolina over six days, handling take-offs, landings and weather reroutes on its own. The flight is part of a broader push by Joby into freight and defence logistics, alongside its electric air-taxi programme.
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