International oil benchmark Brent spiked above $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time since late July following renewed US-Iran hostilities in the Middle East, stoking fears of widespread price rises and interest rate hikes.
Drinking this year's champagne might give you a heftier headache as France's record heatwaves are forcing some producers to up the alcohol levels, industry officials said Wednesday.
Salama Saeed and her son fled for their lives when shelling and gunfire from Yemen's Houthi rebels engulfed their village, forcing her to leave other children behind.
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Sports
Pakistan slumped to 100-7 at lunch on the opening day of the third Test at Edgbaston on Wednesday after yet another dramatic collapse during their sorry tour of England.
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UK air travellers faced more misery Wednesday with 177 flights scrapped across the country, as Britain's air traffic control service scrambled to recover from a technical glitch which it ruled out as a cyberattack.
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The new context layer connects to existing SQL databases and builds a governed, model-agnostic foundation for AI agents running on live operational data, in weeks rather than years.
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Ekiden, the first order book-based derivatives exchange, brings institutional-grade execution, private trading workflows, and on-chain settlement to the Canton ecosystem.
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Hollywood actor-director Casey Affleck cast his two sons in his latest movie "Company" and invited brother Ben to the red-carpet premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
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Economy
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz labelled the far-right AfD's demand for mass "remigration" a form of "ethnic cleansing by skin colour and origin" in a heated parliamentary exchange Wednesday.
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Yemen's Houthi rebels reported dozens of Saudi airstrikes on Wednesday as daily attacks continued in a conflict that has reignited during the Middle East war, with hundreds of people killed in fighting near the Red Sea.
A manga film adaptation by acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has emerged as one of the frontrunners for prizes at the Venice Film Festival this week.
An artificial intelligence researcher who left OpenAI to join Anthropic has decided to leave the industry, accusing both US companies of "playing with our lives" in the race to develop AI models capable of self-improvement.
As the Senegalese engineers assemble their satellite -- wearing hairnets and white gloves as they probe a miniature black box, small enough to be held with one hand -- two destinations have become a priority.
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Politics
The hit TV series "Babylon Berlin" has captivated audiences by portraying the chaos and excitement of Weimar-era Germany, but the dark shadow of Adolf Hitler's rise to power will bring down the curtain on the show's upcoming final season.
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At a UK museum, a long expertly-embroidered cloth displayed across two galleries recounts in images the epic story of the Norman conquest of England.
Zara owner Inditex, one of the world's largest fashion retailers, reported Wednesday higher profits for the first half of its fiscal year as its brands withstood fierce competition and boosted sales.
Ben Shelton stunned holder Carlos Alcaraz in an epic US Open quarter-final that ended at 3:34 am Wednesday, breaking the record for the latest finish in Flushing Meadows history.
Ben Shelton stunned holder Carlos Alcaraz in an epic US Open quarter-final that ended at 3:34 am Wednesday, breaking the record for the latest finish in Flushing Meadows history.
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