Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema was re-elected for a second term, but the opposition leader put in an unexpectedly strong showing, capitalising on
August 17, 2026
Nvidia has agreed to provide a guarantee of up to $105 billion to help OpenAI lease a sprawling data center in Ohio being developed by SoftBank
August 17, 2026
Oil prices settled up by more than $2 on Monday on global supply worries stoked by investor pessimism about diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iran war
August 17, 2026
President Donald Trump has highlighted his record on crime and safety during a visit to New York, pivoting to one of his strongest issues as he looks to boost Republicans in battleground races ahead of the November midterms
August 14, 2026
China's Premier Li Qiang on Monday called for efforts to stabilise external demand and expand international trade cooperation, as weak domestic demand weighs on growth and
August 17, 2026
The Federal Reserve will keep its key interest rate unchanged next month and through year-end, according to most economists in a Reuters poll, a view
August 17, 2026
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets A relatively quiet week ahead kicks off today in the shadow of the
August 17, 2026
President Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with a Hong Kong-based venture offering artificial-intelligence models
August 17, 2026
Zambian police arrested several leading opposition figures on the night of national elections last week, accusing them of posing a threat to state security, the government
August 17, 2026
Moving servers into the ocean does not make underlying environmental challenges disappear. And it creates new concerns as well.
August 17, 2026
Mobile phones have become part of just about everyone’s emergency infrastructure. But what do you do when the power and service go out?
August 17, 2026
Canada's durum, spring wheat, canola and pulse crops have been fighting an intense and expensive battle with widespread crop diseases provoked by the
August 17, 2026
A market correction to tech stock exuberance in the U.S. is likely and could have far-reaching consequences due to limits in fiscal and monetary policy buffers to blunt
August 17, 2026
Iraq's plans to export oil via a pipeline through Syria to avert future disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz
August 17, 2026
Tracking oil prices and US gas prices amid Iran conflict
March 09, 2026
European shares settled lower for a fourth straight session on Monday, as the earnings-fuelled rally cooled and the continuing stand-off
August 17, 2026
Revenues for Michigan’s districts have failed to keep pace with inflation and the evolving needs of today’s students.
August 17, 2026
The number of people worth more than $100 million whom President Donald Trump has appointed to his administration is more than four times the combined total of the three previous presidents
August 17, 2026
Canada's annual inflation rate accelerated to 3% in July, slightly more than expected, as renewed United States-Iran tensions drove gasoline prices,
August 17, 2026
Brazil's economy expanded just 0.2% in the second quarter from the previous three-month period, a central bank indicator showed on Monday, signaling a loss of momentum
August 17, 2026
U.S. federal prosecutors looking into billionaire Mark Walter's empire are focused on four businesses that served as intermediaries between insurance companies he controlled, the
August 17, 2026
The U.S. military, scrambling to rebuild depleted stocks of high-tech weaponry, on Monday said it had awarded RTX unit Raytheon a $22.9 billion contract to dramatically
August 17, 2026
Italy's biggest bank Intesa Sanpaolo held a stake worth about $966 million in Elon Musk's SpaceX as of June 30, an SEC filing showed.
August 17, 2026
Online fast-fashion retailer Shein is eyeing a company valuation in its planned Hong Kong IPO of just a quarter of the nearly $100 billion
August 17, 2026
Russia and Ukraine have stepped up their aerial war. Civilians are paying the price
August 09, 2026
‘A million dollars over asking’: AI wealth is fueling housing market frenzy in San Francisco
August 17, 2026
Americans could soon pay a lot more for strawberries
August 17, 2026
The 60-day deadline for an agreement to end the Iran war and resolve the dispute over its nuclear program is expiring
August 17, 2026
Myanmar junta chief-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing left for Russia on Monday for his first official visit to the country since he assumed the presidency in April, according to
August 17, 2026
China's new home prices were stagnant in July, underscoring the challenges for a broad recovery of the housing sector as demand remained subdued.
August 17, 2026
Taiwan is determined to strengthen its defences and plans record defence spending next year, President Lai Ching-te said on Monday, describing his
August 17, 2026
China's economy lost momentum at the start of the second half, with industrial output and retail sales slowing as extreme weather disruptions and persistently weak domestic
August 17, 2026
China's industrial output in July grew 4.5% from a year earlier, slowing from 5.3% growth in June, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Monday.
August 17, 2026
U.S.
August 17, 2026
Xi says China needs ‘indomitable fighting spirit,’ praises Tiananmen crackdown
August 17, 2026
Alibaba Group is expected to reap more than $2 billion from the sale of its game developer unit Lingxi Games to private equity firm
August 17, 2026
War, tariffs and AI gyrations have done little to dent the flow of cash into emerging markets, as reforms, deeper local capital markets
August 17, 2026
Top Chinese officials led by President Xi Jinping gathered in the Great Hall of the People on Monday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of late leader Jiang
August 17, 2026
The rally in AI-linked stocks that marked the latest earnings season has shifted the focus of the AI investment story from whether Big Tech's spending spree
August 17, 2026
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook The indomitable U.S. consumer may finally have taken a beat, and Friday's figures showing the first fall in
August 17, 2026
Alphabet has mandated investment banks to work on its inaugural Australian dollar bond issue, according to a message sent by one of the book runners and
August 17, 2026
Japan's economy slowed in the second quarter and missed market forecasts on softer household and business spending, highlighting the
August 17, 2026
Of the thousands of lawsuits Meta faces over child safety on its platforms, none may be more consequential than one going to trial this week in California
August 17, 2026
Day after day over recent weeks, Ukrainian drones have pummeled giant depots belonging to Wildberries, the country’s biggest online retailer, burning estimated billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise and bringing the war home to the broad public
August 17, 2026
The Philippine central bank governor said on Monday that inflation is expected to ease gradually over the medium term even as risks to consumer prices remain on the upside.
August 17, 2026
The European Union intends to significantly expand sanctions against Russia in the coming months over its war in Ukraine, the bloc's foreign policy chief, Kaja
August 17, 2026
More than 180,000 utility customers remained without power across Hawaii on Sunday afternoon after Hurricane Lala brushed the Big Island before
August 16, 2026
Japan’s economy grew an annualized rate of 1.1% in the April-June quarter, even as private consumption stayed flat and the growth of exports declined
August 17, 2026
Burgers are having a moment in China, with budget-conscious diners and smaller households turning the humble sandwich into one of the country's
August 17, 2026
Japan's economy expanded an annualised 1.1% in the April-June quarter, government data showed on Monday, compared with a median market forecast for a 2.0% increase.
August 17, 2026
Shipping through the Strait of Hormuz slowed over the weekend, data showed on Monday, following attacks on tankers, while U.S.-Iran talks to resolve the
August 17, 2026
Authorities have lifted a U.S. security alert that halted avocado exports from Michoacán, Mexico's main avocado-producing state
August 16, 2026
New Zealand's a2 Milk forecast weak annual earnings on Monday after missing market expectations for fiscal year 2026 due to supply-chain disruption in its China-label business,
August 17, 2026
Indiana public safety officials say at least seven people have died during days of heavy rain and historic flooding in the state
August 16, 2026
The water level at Lake Powell has fallen to a record low in another sign of crisis along the Colorado River
August 17, 2026
Midwest flooding begins to ease, but one more round of storms is on the way
August 14, 2026
The U.S. government has discussed new sanctions against Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the
August 16, 2026
Colombia's President Abelardo de la Espriella has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend tariffs to help Colombia recover from a devastating earthquake
August 16, 2026
Zambia's President Hakainde Hichilema was well ahead in counting for national elections on Sunday with nearly half the constituencies declared, the electoral commission said
August 16, 2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva launched his final reelection campaign on Sunday from a
August 16, 2026
Trump’s vaccine order is counterproductive and ‘wrong on so many levels,’ GOP lawmaker says
August 16, 2026
Bangladesh signalled on Sunday it wants a more favourable diplomatic environment before it can agree to a top-level visit to India, as Dhaka presses New Delhi to extradite
August 16, 2026
‘Uncharted territory’: Second-largest reservoir in US plunges to a record low
August 16, 2026
Around 5,000 people have been evacuated after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake rocked eastern Indonesia, killing at least 53, blocking roads and
August 16, 2026
JD Vance and the Trump team keep moving the goalposts on Iran
August 16, 2026
Anti-hunger advocate Liz Wills-O'Gilvie, 63, said she has not eaten for 15 days in a bid to push Governor Maura Healey to raise funding for Massachusetts
August 16, 2026
U.S.
August 16, 2026
Ukrainian drones struck Moscow region overnight on Sunday in what the provincial governor said was one of the largest attacks to have targeted the region, and which he said
August 16, 2026
India's tax amnesty scheme for small taxpayers to declare certain undeclared foreign assets of up to 50 million rupees ($523,889) opens on Sunday and will be available
August 16, 2026
German companies slashed investments in the United States to a three-year low in the first half of 2026, as Trump administration policies fed uncertainty
August 16, 2026
For more than a century, cafes in the Italian city of Padua have welcomed customers for an early evening drink, or
August 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala has skirted Hawaii’s Big Island without making landfall and is expected to weaken after lashing the region with strong winds and drenching rain
August 15, 2026
A piece of Miami architectural history has sat largely abandoned and covered in graffiti for more than three decades
August 16, 2026
Palantir chair and co-founder Peter Thiel has bought a 1% stake in Argentina's Vista, one of the largest oil companies operating in the country's Vaca Muerta shale
August 16, 2026
Hurricane Lala approached Hawaii with strong winds and heavy rain on Saturday, leaving more than 40,000 utility customers without power across the state as the
August 16, 2026
Hopes of finding survivors of the earthquake that struck western Colombia five days ago were dwindling on Saturday, as more bodies were pulled from
August 16, 2026
Berkshire Hathaway is increasing its stake in Google’s parent company, Alphabet
August 16, 2026
Nvidia is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, a SoftBank Group subsidiary developing a massive planned Ohio data center project for OpenAI, the Information
August 16, 2026
Democrats have approved dueling messages on immigration enforcement, disagreeing on whether U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement should be abolished or reformed
August 16, 2026
Wall Street will get financial updates from some of the nation’s biggest retailers this week, along with more details from the Federal Reserve’s most recent meeting
August 13, 2026
Moroccan police arrested at least 111 people on Saturday as they tried to enter Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta,
August 15, 2026
The Buffalo Bills’ new stadium has some seats with obstructed views. What’s worse are the ticket prices
August 15, 2026
Republicans worry their chances of keeping Congress are slipping away. Inside the Trump campaign plan to change that
August 15, 2026
President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of the nation’s aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships
August 15, 2026
Democratic voters are turning out for this year’s primaries at levels not seen in more than 20 years
August 15, 2026
President Harry Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his White House desk
August 15, 2026
At a flattened apartment block known as Los Cocos in northern Venezuela, civilians toiled with little support to pull the
August 15, 2026
At first light on Ecuador's Pacific coast, small fishing boats fan out from the villages of San Mateo and
August 15, 2026
The Taliban marked five years in power on Saturday, seeking to portray their government as in control even as aid and rights
August 15, 2026
The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday Iran had attacked an Abu Dhabi National Oil Company vessel while it was transiting the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, the Emirati
August 15, 2026
In the weeks before a rush of more than 70,000 migrants into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, border workers
August 15, 2026
The life-altering choices immigrant families are making under Trump’s crackdown
August 15, 2026
Iran called on the U.S. to accept defeat on Saturday, while President Donald Trump blasted
August 15, 2026
Maharashtra state's food safety chief has intensified a crackdown on the food and grocery industries, suspending the permits of 12
August 15, 2026
Taiwan's opposition-controlled parliament approved this year's government budget late on Friday after a record delay, including spending on a key drone programme to bolster
August 15, 2026
The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must pick sides in the artificial intelligence race with China, warning they will be excluded
August 15, 2026
President Donald Trump on Friday dismissed concerns about the toll on U.S. sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, saying the aircraft carrier's more
August 15, 2026
JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking relationship with prediction market platform Polymarket in October of last year, citing regulatory
August 15, 2026
Nvidia has revised its plans to support a proposed OpenAI data center project in Ohio and is now expected to initially guarantee less than $120 billion, down from the $250 billion
August 15, 2026
As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking further into the future than it commonly does to put a price on the AI
August 15, 2026
Amazon on Friday reinstated binding arbitration for its U.S. customers while also barring them from seeking class-action lawsuits, making it more difficult for
August 15, 2026
Jane Street took a $15 billion hit in July from its exposure to AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness and other tech stocks that were battered by the
August 15, 2026
Russian President Vladimir Putin told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that Moscow and Pyongyang were cooperating across all areas and coordinating efforts to ensure regional
August 15, 2026
An estimated $50 million ransom paid to free a hostage seized by al Qaeda-linked militants in Mali in late 2025 has helped to fund their advances across West
August 15, 2026
Institutional investors pulled back slightly from key stock market segments such as semiconductors, AI
August 15, 2026
The United Nations appealed to donors on Friday not to cut funding for women's programs in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, saying this would add to suffering in a
August 15, 2026
The top U.S. financial regulator on Friday made permanent its decision to cease judging whether companies may exclude shareholder resolutions from votes at annual
August 15, 2026
A U.S. appeals court on Friday ordered a lower court to reconsider whether China-based DJI, the world's largest drone maker, should be removed from
August 14, 2026
Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges over the killing of health insurance executive Brian Thompson, paving the way for him to try to
August 15, 2026
Rescuers raced in Colombia on Friday to free four people from a collapsed hotel, a rare sign
August 14, 2026
U.S. consumer sentiment slumped in early August amid worries about the rising cost of living because of the conflict in the Middle East, a survey showed on Friday.
August 14, 2026
Nvidia's colossal financing deal for AI infrastructure buildouts is the talk of private markets this week.
August 14, 2026
Wall Street's main indexes were mixed at the open on Friday, a day after the S&P 500 closed at a record high, as investors assessed retail sales data and took stock of the latest
August 14, 2026
U.S. equity funds attracted inflows in the week through August 12, as a softer-than-expected payrolls report and benign inflation data tempered expectations of a Federal Reserve
August 14, 2026
A Maryland state tax court has struck down the state’s tax on digital advertising
August 15, 2026
A new federal law rewards states that ease housing rules. Colorado has been doing that for years, and its experience shows both what works and what does not.
August 14, 2026
World markets are in full summer mode, even as tensions flare in the Gulf and there is no shortage of risk events for investors, including a health check on the mighty U.S. consumer
August 14, 2026
Investors head into next week weighing familiar concerns over interest rates, inflation and geopolitical tensions against another robust earnings season
August 14, 2026
U.S. business inventories were unchanged in June as an increase in stocks at wholesalers was offset by a decline at retailers, reflecting strong domestic demand in the
August 14, 2026
Transit through the Strait of Hormuz appeared to grind to a near standstill on Friday after two more ships were
August 14, 2026
A civil rights agency accused of halting a sexual harassment case filed on behalf of female prison guards is now blaming an administrative judge for doing so in error
August 15, 2026
The World Bank on Friday said it had disbursed $200 million to Colombia for its emergency response to a deadly August 10 earthquake that left hundreds dead.
August 14, 2026
Colombia is grappling with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that killed at least 287 people and affected more than 100,000
August 14, 2026
Tiger Global Management trimmed several of its Big Tech stakes, exited Netflix, and took positions in Advanced Micro Devices and SpaceX during the second quarter, according to
August 15, 2026
Jana Partners cut its stake in payments company Fiserv by roughly 17% in the second quarter, a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed on Friday.
August 15, 2026
Berkshire Hathaway said on Friday it boosted the size of its investment in Alphabet by 83% in the second quarter, making the parent of Google and YouTube its
August 15, 2026
Epic Systems, a healthcare database company that holds the medical records of hundreds of millions of Americans, is facing an antitrust investigation by the U.S.
August 15, 2026
Shares of South Korea's Hanwha Group and Italy's Fincantieri rose on Friday after President Donald Trump's directive opening U.S.
August 15, 2026
Canadian autoworkers union Unifor said on Friday it had been notified by Stellantis that the company is considering the closure and sale of its
August 15, 2026
A national U.S. bank regulator on Friday conditionally approved a bank charter application linked to President Donald Trump and his
August 15, 2026
The S&P 500 closed lower on Friday, dipping from a record high and weighed down by Applied Materials, while investors digested weaker-than-expected retail sales
August 14, 2026
Crude oil futures climbed over $1 a berrel on Friday on tanker attacks and a lack of progress on a peace agreement between the Trump administration and Iran's leadership.
August 14, 2026
U.S. retail sales fell in July for the first time in nine months as the boost from big tax refunds faded, suggesting that consumer spending was slowing
August 14, 2026
The U.S.
August 15, 2026
The dollar fell on Friday after data showed U.S. retail sales unexpectedly declined in July, helping send the euro and sterling to multi-month highs, as
August 14, 2026
Brazil's largest lenders are growing more cautious on credit, continuing a shift toward secured products and higher-income borrowers amid signs of a
August 14, 2026
Silver Lake's potential Workday buyout could bolster battered software valuations by showing that private equity remains confident in the industry's prospects
August 14, 2026
Two slicks have appeared in Iranian waters,
August 14, 2026
The Pacific-based aircraft carrier USS George Washington has begun heading toward the Middle East as reports have emerged of mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln
August 14, 2026
NASA’s ‘Dragon Lady’ is uncovering how wildfires create storms
August 15, 2026
Boeing's announcement this week that it is selling Wisk Aero is less a signal of a broader breakup than an effort to shed a struggling, non-core air taxi
August 14, 2026
U.S. and European shares fell on Friday and oil prices rose more than $1 a barrel as markets monitored tense U.S.-Iran talks and
August 14, 2026
U.S.
August 14, 2026
Luigi Mangione has pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson
August 14, 2026
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says his government has triggered an economic reciprocity law against U.S. tariffs
August 14, 2026
Officials in Akron, Ohio, have fired a police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old boy
August 15, 2026
The AI boom is driving up home prices in San Francisco. Are you being priced out?
August 15, 2026
While talks to end the Iran war have stalled, the Trump administration appears to be reaching out to a broader swath of countries that might be able to help pressure Tehran or ease its hardline position where traditional mediators haven't succeeded so far
August 15, 2026
U.S. stocks edged back from their all-time high following the latest economic report to come in surprisingly weak
August 14, 2026
Disney, ABC sue US regulator over threats to broadcast licenses
US advisory body says China's data dominance gives it AI advantage
American Airlines to restore seatback screens, add premium seats in profit push
US single-family housing starts slide in July
New tremors jolt Spain's Granada, injuring three and damaging some buildings