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Long seen as the safest Big Tech bet, Apple (AAPL.O) is heading into Thursday’s earnings with its business facing pressure from US tariffs, tough competition in China and ...

Oil prices fell nearly 1 per cent on Wednesday as investors awaited developments on US President Donald Trump’s tighter deadline for Russia to end the war in Ukraine and his ...

Britain rejected Israeli criticism on Wednesday that it was rewarding militant group Hamas by setting out plans to recognise a Palestinian state unless Israel took steps to improve the situation ...

Thousands of firefighters struggled to put out a dozen wildfires raging in northern Portugal and central Spain through the night and into Wednesday, in the largest wave of blazes in ...

Greek parliament has voted in favour of setting up a committee that will investigate a government agency handling EU agricultural subsidies since 1998, following a scandal in which Greek farmers for ...

When two human rights groups became the first major voices in Israel to accuse the state of committing genocide in Gaza, breaking a taboo in a country founded after the ...

Kylian Mbappe will follow Real Madrid greats Ferenc Puskas, Clarence Seedorf and Luis Figo by wearing the iconic number 10 jersey after Luka Modric’s departure to AC Milan, the LaLiga ...

Bayern Munich have signed Colombian winger Luis Diaz from Liverpool on a four-year contract, the Bundesliga club said on Wednesday. Financial details of the transfer were not revealed but British ...

Australia said on Wednesday it will include Alphabet-owned GOOGL.O YouTube in its world-first ban on social media for teenagers, reversing an earlier decision to exempt the video-sharing platform. Australia’...

Bond investors are adding portfolio risk after a long period of caution, seeing the US economy in a “Goldilocks” moment, not too hot nor too cold, as they bet the ...

A very powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka coast on Wednesday triggered tsunami warnings as far away as French Polynesia and Chile, and was followed by an ...

Barclays’ (BARC.L) first-half profit rose by a better-than-expected 23 per cent, the British bank said on Tuesday, as its markets business reaped bumper returns from the frenzied trading activity sparked ...

Dubai International Airport (DXB), the world’s busiest air travel hub, attracted a record 46 million passengers in the first six months of 2025, up 2.3 per cent from a year earlier, as ...

Shares in Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) eked out small gains on Tuesday, following a sharp rally the previous day after the South Korean technology company clinched a $16.5 billion deal to supply ...

US President Donald Trump formally opened a new golf course at his sprawling property in Scotland on Tuesday, saying he would play a quick round before heading home to focus ...

Microsoft (MSFT.O) investors head into Wednesday’s earnings with one big question: is the company’s artificial intelligence edge at risk as partner OpenAI turns to rivals Google, Oracle ...

The man who killed four people with a semi-automatic rifle while rampaging through a Midtown Manhattan office tower carried a note with him that appeared to blame the National Football ...

Indian forces have killed three Pakistanis involved in the April attack on Hindu tourists in the Jammu and Kashmir federal territory in which 26 men were shot dead, Home Minister Amit ...

British shop prices rose by the most in more than a year in the 12 months to July and food prices grew more strongly, according to a survey that adds to ...

A worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in Gaza and immediate action is needed to end fighting and allow unimpeded aid access, a global hunger monitor warned on Tuesday, saying ...

Kyrgyzstan has banned access to online pornography and imposed state control over internet traffic under new laws signed by President Sadyr Japarov, his office said on Tuesday. Japarov’s office ...

More than 1,300 firefighters backed up by a dozen waterbombing planes battled three big wildfires in central and northern Portugal on Tuesday, with authorities putting most of the country on red ...

Russian airline Aeroflot AFLT.MMcancelled dozens more flights on Tuesday but said it had now stabilised its schedule after a major cyberattack a day earlier. Two pro-Ukraine hacking groups claimed ...

Red Bull Racing will have Formula 1 superstar Max Verstappen for at least another season. Team adviser Helmut Marko said Monday that the four-time defending F1 champion would return to the ...