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LONDON, Sept 7 - British finance minister John Healey faces pressure to raise billions of pounds in tax at his first budget to offset higher borrowing costs and fund Prime Minister Andy Burnham's plans for expanded…
Bond investors want to see how Healey advances PM Andy Burnham’s ambitions while keeping fiscal discipline.
The 38-year-old suspect, Patrick Havas, had a taser and two pistols
Air pollution and climate change should be tackled together instead of in isolation, it says.
Trump promised a musical celebration of the party’s “tremendous victories” and “incredible candidates”.
The memory is fading in the US as the proportion of Americans who did not experience it first-hand grows.
His proposal was immediately dismissed by the state’s governor.
In 2025, such facilities reportedly consumed 222 billion litres of water worldwide for cooling.
The EU head has previously said the package would be “substantial” but gave no details.
An average of 10 commodity ships transited the Strait of Hormuz per day over the past 10 days.
Castro, Cuba’s president from 2006-2018, last appeared in public on Aug 13.
He praised the US for demanding that Ukraine give something in return for support.
CHICAGO, Sept 6 - At least five people died when an Amazon Prime Air cargo flight overran a runway and crashed while landing at Miami International Airport on Sunday, local officials said.
While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Sept 7, 2026.
Iran’s top negotiator has threatened a more forceful response after Tehran targeted American warships in their latest round of clashes.
Video showed the blast as people gathered outside a church for a ritual involving a straw bull fitted with fireworks.
The Boeing 767-300 overshot the runway after arriving from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The move came as the US steps up sanctions seeking to isolate the country’s economy.
The dead included a four-year-old child and three women, with nearly 70 others wounded.
US envoy Steve Witkoff and Zelensky both gave upbeat assessments of the talks, but neither announced any breakthroughs.
Moscow has been ramping up its confrontational rhetoric to increase pressure on the West.
The AfD won 44 per cent of the vote, up from 20.8 per cent in 2021, while the centre-right CDU came a distant second.
Unauthorized settler outposts have been ordered to be dismantled amid pressure from the US.
CAIRO, Sept 6 - An Israeli strike killed a man and his 8-year-old daughter in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said.
The economic squeeze may yet compel Iran to ease its grip and agree to a compromise, analysts say.
LISBON, Sept 6 - At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren and teenagers, were killed when a bus plunged into a ravine on Fogo, one of Cape Verde's islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West Africa,…
The Trump administration has also previously threatened to cut federal funding for the Smithsonian.
The sticking point was the inclusion of the phrase “non-market” in a sentence addressing trade imbalances.
Washington is pushing to lower its import reliance in an industry that China dominates.
Congress has been consumed by contentious fights between Republicans and the Democratic minority.
Many of the newly identified genes are shared between OCD and chronic tic disorders.
Thomson Reuters detected unauthorised activity in one of its cloud environments and had taken steps to contain the activity.
The Ronald Reagan National Airport's authority said there was no disruption to other flights.
It comes after the closure of a Russian cultural centre in Berlin and a consulate in Bonn.
It is not known if the greater level of cooperation would mean more US troops being stationed in Australia.
Chris Wright also stressed the importance of fixing Venezuela’s electricity sector.
Iran reported 18 dead in the last US assault, including four killed and dozens wounded at a wedding.
The recommendations were based on reviews of the latest evidence published in the medical journal JAMA.
The suspect was also dead but it wasn’t clear how he had died.
It plans to invest US$7 billion over the next five years through its joint venture partnerships in Venezuela.
The measure failed 212-206, far short of the necessary two-thirds majority to pass in the House.
He claimed credit for a spike in summer travel.
Almost 60 per cent of reported abuse occurred on social media platforms.
A dark web site selling digital scans of millions of drivers’ licences was reported.
OpenAI said it would more closely monitor the actions its AI systems take to complete tasks.
BEIRUT, Sept 3 - The Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon, which is named after a Shi'ite Muslim scholar whose shrine sits at its summit, has become one of the most contested pieces of ground in the Israel-Hezbollah…
Bessent’s remarks were consistent with the administration’s willingness to pressure Ukraine and court Russia.
Passengers will still have a human supervisor behind the wheel.
Israeli forces were prepared for a possible attack over the Jewish high holiday season, which begins in mid-September.
The pair and their wives were joined by British Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
Lake Ontario’s name has an Indigenous origin, well before Canada’s province of Ontario was formed.
Legal experts say Maduro faces an uphill battle.
DUBAI, Sept 2 - A car struck a gathering of supporters of Iran's government and armed forces in the northeastern city of Mashhad overnight, killing four people and injuring more than 10, several Iranian media reported…
The report’s stark language alarmed climate campaigners.
Sept 2 - Dialogue between Russia and the U.S. should continue to find common ground in economics, which should make it easier to discuss political issues, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said, according to an…
The lull came as the conflict appeared to be draining both sides.
A total of 82 survivors were safely evacuated over the weekend, most of them by helicopter.
About 5,000 Dropbox accounts were compromised by the hackers.
WASHINGTON, Sept 1 - The U.S. military said late on Tuesday it completed its latest wave of strikes on Iran, saying it struck Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets as the Iran war escalated following a weekend…
WASHINGTON, Sept 1 - Police in Tucson, Arizona, said they were probing a deadly shooting outside a gay bar as a hate crime after a suspect fatally shot two people and later died himself shortly after reaching hospital.
A judge ruled that he should face trial on all seven charges against him.
The US goals largely align with the thinking of the world’s biggest AI companies, nearly all of which are American.
He said the US and China agree on the importance of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open.
Trump urged the US Senate to confirm Cao quickly.
It comes amid a growing backlash against the construction of AI data centres in the United States.
Zoox said it would begin testing in Houston and San Diego, bringing its presence to 12 US locations.
Sept 1 - Nicaragua's Congress on Tuesday passed a constitutional reform that bans opposition parties from participating in elections and extends the presidential term from six to seven years, an initiative that had…
Astra can spot more security vulnerabilities than the most advanced OpenAI model publicly available today,
One of his biggest challenges will be balancing the company’s dependence on China while parrying political pressure from the White House.
They say it would lower oil prices for Americans and counter Russian and Chinese influence on Washington’s doorstep.
He said Ukraine damaged about 100 Russian ships during the campaign that began in June.
His wife, still convalescing after a lung transplant, was unable to attend the ceremony.
It comes a day after his wife claimed an opposition figure knew of the onslaught in advance.
Sept 1 - Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov will discuss humanitarian issues in the Ukraine conflict with papal envoy Cardinal Matteo Zuppi later this month in Russia, Ushakov was…
Carney said the talks collapsed due to an “accumulation of issues”.
Diplomats say a vote raises the prospect of vetoes by both Russia and China.
Users in Canada will continue to see Lake Ontario, and users in the rest of the world will see both names.
The greenhouse gas emissions climbed due in part to increased global production of fibre.
WARSAW/GDANSK/PRAGUE, Sept 1 - As Poland builds Europe's biggest army, it is pivoting toward domestic and other central European defence companies to reduce reliance on far-flung suppliers unable to quickly ramp up…
The eight-year-old dog has started treatment and is already considered to be in a partial remission.
Aug 31 - An ex-street gang leader accused of orchestrating the drive-by shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur three decades ago in Las Vegas was convicted of murder on Monday for his role in a long-unsolved crime…
NAIROBI, Sept 1 - Kenya's aviation workers have called off a strike that disrupted flights at its main international and other airports, Transport Minister Davis Chirchir and aviation workers union head Moss Ndiema said…
WASHINGTON, Sept 1 - Generational change is on the ballot in Massachusetts on Tuesday as Democratic voters choose whether to renominate 80-year-old progressive U.S. Senator Ed Markey or replace him on the ballot with…
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 - The Smithsonian Institution approved on Monday the conversion of one of its buildings into the National Museum of the American Latino, which will enable it to bypass congressional approval for a new…
KYIV, Sept 1 - Nine people were killed and over a dozen injured in Russian air attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region on Tuesday, authorities said, in the sixth consecutive day of strikes on the Ukrainian capital.
MEXICO CITY, Aug 31 - A recent spate of bomb attacks has swept across Mexico, from car bombs to drones rigged with explosives, exposing an escalation in cartel violence that local authorities say has intensified over…
WASHINGTON, Aug 31 - U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation to the White House following months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Anthropic claims that lawyers are recycling allegations from cases already before the court.
It comes amid broad dissatisfaction over the war in Iran and the Republican’s economic stewardship.
It was not immediately clear how seriously injured the other victim was.
She had attacked Democratic socialist Angie Nixon and other prominent Black US politicians.
Development has moved people into areas where bears used to forage for food.
OpenAI has pushed to have the case dismissed.
He said it would help bring the production of Hollywood blockbusters back to the US.
Driscoll had a strained relationship with Hegseth, marked by disagreements over personnel and leadership decisions.
Vice-President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio have also been urged by supporters to run.
Cook spent nearly three decades at Apple, which he has led as CEO since 2011.
Yoav Segalovitz will be the first Jewish Israeli to run for an explicitly Arab party.
While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Sept 1, 2026.
She faces a potential sentence of life in prison without parole if convicted in North Carolina.
Trump in a social media post welcomed the ruling and called the legal challenge baseless.
The grants risk deepening tensions between the Trump administration and European governments.
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug 31 - The United States' move to welcome Russia back to a meeting of G20 countries on Monday while denying some journalists access to the gathering dismayed some finance leaders present,…
Aug 31 - U.S. President Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video clip that he said was Iran's oil hub Kharg Island being blown to smithereens, hours after the two countries traded attacks for the first time since July.
Aug 31 - Iran's army said it attacked the United Arab Emirates' Al Minhad Air Base with drones early on Monday, Iranian state TV reported, citing a statement from the army.
The world’s coral reefs provide food and livelihoods for millions of people.
Aug 31 - A missile attack killed two people and injured 16 in the city of Belgorod close to the Russian border with Ukraine, acting governor Alexander Shuvayev said on the Telegram messaging app.
He acknowledges that parties in power typically lose ground during the midterms.
Aug 31 - Russia sees NATO activity in the Arctic as a direct security threat, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an article published on Monday, as the alliance members boost their presence in the region in the wake…
Iran responded to the earlier US attack on rocket launchers on its island of Larak.
Ternus' appointment comes a week before iPhone's annual event on Sept 9.
The seizure was among the largest of US' local investigations.
He said a revision of trade terms would incentivise China to strengthen its domestic demand.
The next step may be cutting off an institution entirely from the dollar-based financial system.
The CDC said governor Josh Shapiro has rejected the CDC’s help and declined to provide more information on the deaths.
Treasury Dept called Banque Misr UAE critical node for Iranian regime’s access to US dollars.
US, China, Japan and Singapore rejoin as dialogue partners after last year’s exclusion.
It has forced him to rely on an even smaller circle of aides.
Photos show a smiling Maduro dressed in a grey tracksuit and white sneakers while flashing two peace signs with his hands.