World
Less than a month out from the knife-edge US presidential election, no group of voters is attracting more attention from the campaigns than the tiny sliver of the electorate that is still undecided.While many people long ago made up their minds between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, a small percent...
Major South Korean bookshops sold out of author Han Kang's books Friday, as sales skyrocketed and the share price of local publishers soared following her historic Nobel Prize win.The first Asian woman to win the literary award, short story writer and novelist Han is best known overseas for &quo...
A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest, apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.Climate change is thinning snow and ice around the Himalayas, increasingly exposing the bodies of m...
Sports,Football
Argentina were held to a 1-1 draw by Venezuela on Lionel Messi’s return as Brazil got their 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign back on track with a last-gasp 2-1 victory over Chile on Thursday.Messi, who missed Argentina's last round of fixtures in September due to injury, looked to have p...
World,Front Page
Author Han Kang became on Thursday the first South Korean to win the Nobel Prize in Literature for work characterised by the correspondence between mental and physical torment as well as historical events.Han is best known for her book "The Vegetarian", her first novel translated into Engl...
World,Back Page
Indian industrialist Ratan Tata, who is credited with transforming the Tata Group into a globally renowned conglomerate, has died at age 86, the company said late Wednesday.Under Tata, the company grew into a sprawling international enterprise with a portfolio ranging from software to sports cars.&q...
Business & Commerce
Inflation in Brazil climbed to 4.42 percent year-on-year in September as a severe drought in Latin America's biggest economy caused food and fuel prices to soar, official figures showed Wednesday.The monthly increase of 0.44 percent in the consumer price index is the biggest for the month of Sep...
Former US president Barack Obama will bring his star power to Kamala Harris's election campaign Thursday in a bid to get out the vote in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania.America's first black president is hitting the campaign trail in the steel city of Pittsburgh a day after Harris&#...
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on a whirlwind tour of European allies to secure aid for Ukraine's fightback against Russia before crunch US elections next month.The pair shook hands and posed for photographs on the red carpet outside Downing Street in...
Americans David Baker and John Jumper, together with Briton Demis Hassabis, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for work revealing proteins' secrets through computing and artificial intelligence.Biochemist Baker, 62, was given half the award "for computationalrotein design"...
US star Taylor Swift got a special police escort for her London concerts after an alleged suicide attack plot led to the cancellation of three performances in Vienna.Culture Minister Lisa Nandy denied the singer was given preferential treatment after reports she had a motorcycle escort, usually rese...
Entertainment & Glomour
Sega said Wednesday one of its most popular games, "Shinobi," will be made into a movie in a joint project with Universal Pictures, aiming to emulate the success of "Super Mario Bros."The Japanese gamemaker did not give a target date for the release but said it had "st...
Storm-battered Florida braced for a direct hit from Hurricane Milton which strengthened back to a Category 5 storm Tuesday, as US President Joe Biden begged residents to flee what he warned could be the worst natural disaster to hit the state in a century.As the second huge hurricane in as many week...
Russia's defence ministry said Wednesday it had retaken two villages in its Kursk region that were captured by Ukraine in a surprise offensive.Russia has rarely claimed any recaptured territory since Ukraine launched its offensive into the border region on August 6.The ministry said in a stateme...
American John Hopfield and British-Canadian Geoffrey Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering work in the development of artificial intelligence.The pair were honoured "for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural network...
Mourners and leaders around the world on Monday voiced horror and a desire for peace at tearful memorials remembering the unprecedented October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel that sparked a year of devastating war in Gaza.People from Sydney to Rome and Warsaw to Washington grieved for those killed a...
Kyiv on Monday said that its forces had struck a large oil terminal overnight on the occupied Crimean Peninsula as Moscow claimed the capture of another village in east Ukraine.Ukraine also said at least five civilians were killed on Monday by Russian attacks -- including in a strike on a civilian s...
A record number of climbers are gathered in Tibet to complete mountaineering's pinnacle achievement, summiting the world's tallest 14 peaks.Only about 50 climbers have climbed all mountain peaks above 8,000 metres (26,250 feet), a feat that took most years, or even decades, to complete.About...
Indian-administered Kashmir elected Tuesday its first government since the restive Himalayan territory was brought under New Delhi's direct control, as voters backed opposition parties to lead its regional assembly.Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government cancelled Kashmir...
China's top economic planner said Tuesday that authorities were "fully confident" the country would hit its economic growth targets for the year, after last month announcing a series of stimulus measures that sent stock markets soaring.Beijing has struggled to reignite business activit...
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