Canadian home sales extended their decline in September, after a drop in August, as higher mortgage rates and expectations of a Bank of Canada rate hike
October 16, 2026Pakistani authorities have ordered inspections of all private schools in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after a school roof collapsed and killed 34 children and a teacher, as some victims’ relatives said the structure had been weak before the disaster, and at least one said he had warned the owner about leaks
October 16, 2026Britain's competition watchdog said on Friday that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft can do more to address remaining barriers to switching between cloud providers and using
October 16, 2026Indonesia's stock market is no longer worthy of "emerging market" status, MSCI said on Friday, laying out a plan to remove
October 15, 2026PetroChina is poised for a record year in trading profits, five trading executives said, with its refineries outside China reaping bumper margins amid tight
October 16, 2026Las Vegas officials have identified a homicide victim whose remains were found in a rusted barrel on a Lake Mead shore after the lake’s level was depleted amid drought
October 15, 2026Ex-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro says torture allegations against him and his wife in a rewritten drug trafficking indictment are false
October 15, 2026U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh says he won't prejudge what the U.S. central bank will do about interest rates at its upcoming meetings
October 16, 2026A sharp sell-off in European government bonds this month shows how hedge funds' growing role is making a systemically important market more
October 16, 2026Some of China's richest people are winding down their offshore trusts, selling shares, and even switching nationality as a deadline looms to declare
October 16, 2026The Trump administration has sued California election officials
October 15, 2026The FBI and US Postal Service's law enforcement arm said on Thursday they were investigating suspicious mailings, including some sent to state
October 15, 2026Illinois authorities believe a 19-year-old man charged with planning a mass shooting at a Hindu temple in suburban Chicago entered the building’s parking lot on Sunday, hours before police arrested him near his home after receiving a tip about the alleged attack plan
October 15, 2026A large number of backlogged voter records have been sorted through in most Texas counties, the Secretary of State's office confirmed Thursday
October 16, 2026Federal authorities are investigating letters with “suspicious substances” that have been mailed to congressional and election offices nationwide
October 15, 2026Hurricane Trudy moved parallel to Mexico's western coast on Thursday, threatening further rain and strong winds in a region already battered in recent weeks by storms
October 15, 2026The Philippines has chided China's ambassador for what it interpreted as a "thinly veiled threat" of force, after Beijing's envoy said his country would prevail in a
October 16, 2026Fast-food chain KFC on Thursday signed Coca-Cola as its beverage partner
October 15, 2026Family members say a grandmother, two of her adult daughters and her grandson were among the six people who died when a small plane crashed in Wisconsin after flying in a thunderstorm
October 15, 2026Yemen's Houthis fired missiles at the presidential palace complex in the southern city of Aden on Thursday,
October 15, 2026Hurricane Trudy has strengthened as it approaches the Pacific coast of Mexico
October 15, 2026A New Orleans jail worker received a 2.5-year prison sentence Thursday for enabling 10 inmates to escape through a hole behind a toilet after he turned off its water
October 16, 2026Trump admin files ‘long shot’ lawsuit after California wouldn’t open a thumb drive of alleged non-citizens
October 16, 2026The US-Israeli war on Iran has altered bunker buying patterns for shippers globally as they turned to more spot and shorter-term purchases to cope with
October 16, 2026FBI employees fired for their roles in the investigation of President Donald Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Florida estate are suing to get their jobs back, calling their terminations unlawful acts of “political retribution.”
October 15, 2026Drone attacks on cargo ships in the Black Sea this month have raised concerns among NATO members
October 16, 2026Hyundai Motor America is recalling 94,622 vehicles in the US over a fire risk while parked or driving due to the possibility that some front power seat motors could overheat, the US
October 15, 2026Manhattan’s Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park
October 15, 2026As early voting begins in the 2026 midterm elections, social media users are warning each other about what could allegedly happen if a poll worker marks a ballot before it is fed into a scanner
October 16, 2026A trial is set for the suspected organizer of a deadly al-Qaida attack on a U.S. warship in the year 2000
October 16, 2026U.S. stock indexes muscled higher following a shaky day of trading
October 15, 2026Cancer stick
October 01, 2026The Maine Senate campaign between Democrat Troy Jackson and Republican Sen. Susan Collins is heating up
October 16, 2026A potential Trump administration plan to ease sanctions on vessels that have transported sanctioned oil and fuel would likely have limited impact on
October 16, 2026UBS is working on possible scenarios including shifting its headquarters, or a merger with another bank, if Switzerland introduces new banking rules it deems
October 15, 2026Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has told Israeli President Isaac Herzog that Israel should stop and reverse its "forced establishment" of West Bank settlements.
October 15, 2026Celebrated actor Al Pacino will receive a lifetime achievement award for his career achievements and humanitarian work next year, the actors' union
October 16, 2026UniCredit, Italy's second-largest bank, said on Thursday that the European Central Bank had authorised it to take control of Commerzbank, after a hostile
October 15, 2026The skyrocketing price of diesel is plain for Americans to see anytime they fuel up their cars, SUVs and pickup trucks, though only a fraction of US drivers own a
October 16, 2026The US Justice Department sued California on Thursday, asking a federal judge to block the state from counting mail ballots for the
October 15, 2026A federal judge has declined to issue a court order requiring the Justice Department to preserve all its records from investigations into John Brennan so the former CIA director can challenge any eventual criminal case against him as a malicious prosecution
October 16, 2026Factory championing women workers named world’s best new building
October 16, 2026Florida high school seniors teach older adults how to use technology internationally
October 16, 2026Authorities say a Florida man whose former fiancee went missing nearly 15 years ago, just hours after they appeared together on a pretaped episode of “The People’s Court,” has been charged with her murder
October 15, 2026The legacy of the Black Panther Party lives on six decades after its founding, in the work of a Seattle medical center started to address systemic health disparities in the African American community
October 15, 2026The International Energy Agency agreed on Thursday to release over 20 million barrels of diesel to the
October 15, 2026Progress toward a US-Mexico tariff deal has stalled after opposition from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar
October 15, 2026High gas prices are intensifying inflation and vacuuming up more of Americans’ dollars, yet consumers are still digging deep to spend, powering the economy, at least for now
October 15, 2026Mortgage rates held steady this week, keeping the average long-term U.S. home loan rate at its highest level in nearly three years
October 15, 2026A Georgia amusement park where a man fell to his death from a roller coaster is set to reopen amid a growing safety probe of roller coasters made by the same manufacturer
October 15, 2026The US government has delayed by 90 days implementation of new customs requirements for small international mail shipments, a move that should forestall higher
October 15, 2026US President Donald Trump scrapped plans to livestream the execution of the former Army major who killed 13 people at Fort
October 15, 2026In April, computer chip equipment maker ASML's CEO Christophe Fouquet told shareholders
October 15, 2026The FBI and Postal Service are investigating “potentially hazardous” letters with “suspicious substances” mailed to congressional and election offices across the nation
October 15, 2026The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the
October 15, 2026Israel said commercial goods were no longer entering Gaza over what it said was a dispute over taxes between local merchants and Hamas, shutting off a vital source of
October 15, 2026Brent crude was little changed on Thursday as investors weighed possible US steps to ease restrictions on the world’s "shadow fleet" of tankers, while
October 15, 2026Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic face a big challenge
October 15, 2026Suspect in fatal Atlanta Beltline stabbing not competent to stand trial, judge rules
October 15, 2026Turkey will probably hold its 2028 elections earlier than expected, a presidential adviser said on Thursday, a move which would allow President Tayyip Erdogan to sidestep
October 15, 2026Elections officials in battleground Wisconsin have approved guidance for local clerks to help them know what to do if federal law enforcement officials show up at the polls on Election Day, as some activists fear they might do
October 15, 2026US holiday sales growth is expected to accelerate to 4.2% this year, the National Retail Federation said on Thursday, betting that consumers would remain resilient even as major
October 15, 2026Al Pacino has been named the next recipient of the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award
October 15, 2026Trump calls off livestream of Fort Hood shooter’s firing squad execution
October 15, 2026Deal reached to end horse carriage industry, New York City official says
October 15, 2026The holdout juror who blocked Lindsay Clancy from being acquitted says he was influenced by how “methodical” he thought she was in killing her three children
October 15, 2026London's blue-chip stocks closed at a seven-week high on Thursday after the finance minister reaffirmed the government's commitment to fiscal discipline, while a
October 15, 2026US President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a $201 million investment fund in the Caucasus holds major telecom and
October 15, 2026The cost of insuring against the risk of potential US tech defaults has hit record levels, in the latest sign of credit stress building in the so-called AI
October 15, 2026Global brokerages largely expect the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates at least once more this year after data on Wednesday showed consumer prices accelerated in September,
October 15, 2026A woman who alleges British actor and comedian Russell Brand raped her more than 25 years ago told jurors on Thursday that she found him "frightening", angrily
October 15, 2026The editor-in-chief of Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta was questioned by investigators in Moscow on Thursday in connection with a criminal case against a colleague, the
October 15, 2026China's central bank governor called for looking beyond current account and exchange rate adjustments when it comes to global imbalances, in a further defence of China's
October 15, 2026Rescuers searched on Thursday for seven missing sailors after drones struck two chemical tankers near Romania's Black Sea coast, setting them ablaze and raising fresh
October 15, 2026The risk that Russia could erode Western support for Ukraine through hybrid attacks, sabotage and disinformation campaigns is a key concern for Estonia, the Baltic nation's
October 15, 2026Research on the ‘massacre generation’ reveals that shared fear over mass shootings doesn’t lead to shared policy views.
October 15, 2026GOP allegations that voter fraud is rampant in the US may drive more Democrats – and fewer Republicans – to the polls in November.
October 15, 2026U.S. applications for unemployment benefits inched up last week as layoffs remain historically low and most American workers enjoy job security
October 15, 2026High school seniors, parents and college counselors grapple with applying to Cornell
October 15, 2026The first Justice Department subpoena demanding voter information caught Democratic Nevada Secretary of State Cisco Aguilar off guard.
October 15, 2026The head of the International Monetary Fund’s Africa department says African economies have managed to weather the energy crisis brought on by the Iran war
October 15, 2026The former leader of Northern Ireland's largest unionist party, Jeffrey Donaldson, was sentenced to 15 years in jail on Thursday for
October 15, 2026When the oil supertanker Esteem Explorer sails from the United States to Japan in late November, loaded with about 2
October 15, 2026The S&P 500 has been a stone's throw away from 8,000 points since its midsummer rally, but many analysts and portfolio managers are skeptical the broad US index will close the gap
October 15, 2026Ralph Lauren, like many companies in the retail space, had until last year tied part of its executives’ compensation to a warm-and-cuddly metric known as
October 15, 2026Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh’s call for a “quieter” central bank is facing pushback from colleagues who see
October 15, 2026The United States views Senegal's request for debt restructuring as a "great example" of progress on the Group of 20 Common Framework, and wants to see
October 15, 2026A heavy downpour has shut down Istanbul, flooded homes and roads and killed at least three people
October 15, 2026A new bridge linking China and North Korea has opened after more than a decade of delay It's being touted as a symbol of the neighbors' traditional friendship and it signals deeper ties between the countries
October 15, 2026North Korea has conducted its first missile test from underwater in nearly three years, in what experts say likely involved a yet-to-be-deployed submarine that the North had said is designed to launch nuclear weapons
October 15, 2026I saw ‘Whalefall’ … with a man who really got trapped in a whale
October 15, 2026Indonesian authorities said on Thursday they would consider offers of foreign assistance to tackle the country's biggest forest fires in over a decade after President
October 15, 2026European shares hit their highest in more than two weeks on Thursday, helped by solid earnings and a surge in healthcare stocks which have emerged as
October 15, 2026German authorities have opened an investigation into possible sexual harassment involving a robot
October 14, 2026PepsiCo told an Indian court on Thursday that a continued ban on the "energy drink" label could drive its top-selling products out of stock nationwide
October 15, 2026Indian authorities have asked Bollywood actor Imran Khan to leave the country by the end of the month, saying he breached immigration laws after joining a protest against
October 15, 2026Governments and state entities
October 15, 2026South Korea's benchmark KOSPI stock index closed at a six-month low on Thursday, as a heavy selloff in chipmakers triggered a
October 15, 2026Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te called on Thursday for US memory chipmaker Micron Technology and its workers to negotiate "sincerely"
October 15, 2026A rude awakening over the debt-fuelled AI binge has sent investors rushing out of stocks and into government bonds, which now seem to
October 15, 2026Some of Japan's largest asset managers are expected to unveil plans to buy more domestic bonds with markets focusing on whether they would step up divestments of overseas
October 15, 2026A man has died at Six Flags Over Georgia, police said, with witnesses telling CNN affiliate WXIA they watched the man fall off a roller coaster.
October 14, 2026What we know about the fatal roller coaster incident at Six Flags Over Georgia
October 14, 2026A man's death on a Six Flags roller coaster in Georgia has raised questions about ride safety and regulation
October 14, 2026Catholics in Chicago and worldwide are rallying behind Pope Leo XIV after his lung cancer diagnosis
October 15, 2026China’s newly opened joint military airfield in Laos is Beijing’s first overseas facility focused on air power
October 15, 2026Australian employment unexpectedly fell in September, data showed on Thursday, while the unemployment rate held at a five-year high, a soft result that had
October 15, 2026The Vatican says Pope Leo XIV has celebrated Mass in a special room set up for him at the hospital after cancer surgery
October 14, 2026Iran-backed Houthi rebels have struck the headquarters of Saudi oil company Aramco in a strike that damaged the offices of senior executives
October 14, 2026A Washington watchdog group is suing Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, to block him from serving as a top envoy without disclosing his finances and potential conflicts of interest
October 15, 2026A Mexican judge has closed the case against Francisco Garduño, former head of the country’s immigration agency, related to the 2023 fire at a Ciudad Juárez detention center
October 15, 2026Florida has won a key court decision in a case involving a ban on social media accounts for kids under 14
October 15, 2026A group of 40 state attorneys general on Wednesday urged a US bankruptcy judge in Delaware to protect young users of Character.AI and keep their data safe during
October 15, 2026Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro was seen slightly ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva heading into the October 25 presidential runoff, a Quaest poll showed on
October 15, 2026Costa Rica inaugurated a maximum-security prison on Wednesday as it stepped up its fight against organized crime after a surge in killings in what was
October 15, 2026Colombia opened its embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, becoming the 10th government to do so, as new President Abelardo De La Espriella reversed his predecessor's break
October 14, 2026Oil prices rose on Wednesday after the Houthis attacked Saudi Aramco's headquarters and Iran said it was deploying new tactics to target ships and keep oil
October 14, 2026A British prosecutor has accused Russell Brand of being a “ruthless” sexual predator who assaulted six women over the course of a decade
October 14, 2026Two leaders of India’s “Cockroach” youth movement have been sentenced by a local court to five days in jail after climbing barricades to protest in New Delhi
October 14, 2026A federal judge has extended an order blocking the Trump administration from banning reporters from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House
October 14, 2026Defense lawyers for a former Ukrainian army officer charged with damaging the Nord Stream gas pipelines in blasts four years ago have called for the dismissal of charges in the first day of his trial
October 14, 2026The new press secretary for Donald Trump’s White House stepped to the podium
October 14, 2026Dozens of Washington, D.C., residents have rallied outside a courthouse holding a hearing on President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to oppose the continuing presence of the military in the city
October 14, 2026Lawyers for a Ukrainian ex-military officer accused of leading the bombing of Russia's Nord Stream pipeline in September 2022 argued at the start of his
October 14, 2026United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain’s re-election last week was a breeze. His second term leading the 400,000-member labor group might not be as easy.
October 14, 2026Indonesia’s top Muslim clerical body has opposed upcoming concerts by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli at Borobudur Temple and Jakarta
October 14, 2026Thelma Brenes grew worried when her father in Nicaragua did not return her messages.
October 14, 2026Russian forces struck the Ukrainian capital with ballistic missiles on Tuesday, killing two people in a high-rise apartment and hitting a thermal power plant in the second attack in
October 14, 2026Oil giant Saudi Aramco's headquarters in Dhahran suffered extensive damage in an attack on Tuesday, with a fire spreading across several floors, three people with direct knowledge
October 14, 2026BlackRock surpassed Wall Street profit expectations and attracted $205 billion in total inflows in the third quarter, sending the world's largest
October 14, 2026Japan's top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said on Wednesday the investment activities of the country's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) are supporting the "
October 14, 2026Bank of America missed third-quarter profit estimates on Wednesday due to weakness in its trading business and disclosed a $1.2 billion charge
October 14, 2026The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and Vietnam are set to sign a free trade deal on Sunday, officials said this week, after long-stalled talks were relaunched last
October 14, 2026Chinese state buyers purchased 8-10 Panamax cargoes of US soybeans this week, the first such deals since the September summit between Presidents Donald
October 14, 2026Taiwan said on Wednesday it was making progress in talks to buy liquefied natural gas from Alaska LNG and
October 14, 2026Britain's media regulator Ofcom said on Wednesday it remained concerned about Elon Musk-owned X's handling of illegal hate and terrorism-related content
October 14, 2026There’s a hidden world behind Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar that hasn’t changed in centuries
October 14, 2026A Malaysian court on Wednesday denied former Prime Minister Najib Razak's request to suspend a 15-year jail term in connection with
October 14, 2026Barbados is joining a group of countries calling for the establishment of an international panel to address inequality, at a time when heightened geopolitical
October 14, 2026Taiwan is planning to buy liquefied natural gas from a U.S. project once extraction starts and could invest up to $4.4 billion in it
October 14, 2026The remains of 731 people believed killed during the 1968 Tet Offensive have been laid to rest in Ho Chi Minh City, nearly six decades after North Vietnamese communist forces launched coordinated surprise attacks across South Vietnam during the Lunar New Year holiday
October 14, 2026BEIJING, Oct 14 - China is willing to work with the European Union to inject more stability and positive energy into economic and trade ties, Vice Premier He Lifeng told French diplomat Emmanuel Bonne
October 14, 2026European leaders gather in Brussels on Thursday to weigh up the future of trading ties with China, whose surging exports of cars and other
October 14, 2026Vietnam and the US have nearly completed negotiations covering a trade deal, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Gia Tuc said on
October 14, 2026An Indian court ordered that two leaders of the youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) be detained in jail for five days, the party and police said on
October 14, 2026ECB President Christine Lagarde signals no intervention in France’s fiscal crisis
October 14, 2026Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Elinor Dashwood in a new “Sense and Sensibility” adaptation directed by Georgia Oakley
October 14, 2026Trump admin silent as Russia hits American businesses with ‘drones and missiles’ in Ukraine
October 14, 2026Kelly Clarkson's recent dispute with a Brooklyn store highlights the power dynamics between celebrities and everyday people
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