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Chandler Scaggs, 21, was arrested by the FBI in West Virginia. He and seven others face charges of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder government officials.
70+ ETFs hit the ASX in FY26. With the 50% CGT discount gone, the tax math shifts toward funds over direct stocks. What the IPO pipeline tells us next.
PVR INOX won an arbitration award of ₹1.22 crore plus costs against Victory Infraedge over a failed Gurugram mall deal. The developer must refund the security deposit with 12% interest from 2019.
Jon Long charges £11.70 for cod and chips. Only £2 stays with him after VAT, fish, wages, gas and electricity. The breakdown shows why UK inflation sticks.
OpenAI and Google sold AI model access to Singapore units of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent despite Pentagon blacklist. Compliance risk spreads to Microsoft, Amazon.
Jean Shepherd's late-night radio show on 1950s WOR gathered a cult following called the Night People. His pranks and rambling style influenced modern media.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI cost efficiency is the dominant topic at Sun Valley. His GPT-5.6 family targets lower compute cost, with stakes for NVIDIA and hyperscalers.
A 90-day experiment testing six online income methods yielded $1.42/hour for Fiverr and zero for TikTok. Only one approach produced real revenue.
Tencent is negotiating to buy AI startup Manus from Meta after Beijing ordered the US firm to unwind its $2 billion acquisition, sources say.
EPFO now auto-transfers PF when you switch jobs if your UAN is linked to Aadhaar. No separate transfer request needed. The change follows a platform migration.
Union MSME Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi urged banks to expand institutional credit for MSMEs during a Puducherry review. The impact hinges on execution and upcoming quarterly data.
Three geopolitical risk events: Putin's war blindness, Melnichenko's oligarch peace plan, Erdogan's health collapse. How they affect markets and what to watch next.
Albemarle's Alpha Score of 69/100 leaves room for the lithium bull and bear cases to play out. A low-cost producer waiting for the next demand catalyst.
Anand Rathi Wealth Q1 net profit rose 24% to Rs 79.6 crore as AUM crossed Rs 1 lakh crore for the first time. Read what drove the growth and how the stock stacks up at current valuations.
Three reservoir breaches in Guangxi's Hengzhou area pushed the Typhoon Maysak death toll to 39, with 23 missing and 375,000 affected across the province.
iQIYI International posted a 130% year-on-year viewership jump in H1 2026, driven by premium Chinese dramas and fast-paced micro dramas. "Pursuit of Jade" led all content categories.
Sandiganbayan denied Senator Estrada's plea to attend Vice President Duterte's impeachment trial, ruling it would effectively grant freedom during the 31-week proceeding.
StockEdge scan flags five Nifty500 stocks with RSI crossing 50 after a 5% gain. A momentum filter, not a buy signal. Apply volume and trend checks.
A design agency CEO argues the industry's AI investments fail because they don't start with the people using them. The solution is workflow integration, not automation.
Crypto VC Dragonfly leads Venice.ai's first outside funding, valuing the two-year-old privacy AI startup at $1 billion. The round includes Coinbase Ventures and Archetype.
Prairie Lithium's new DLE column is four times larger than Standard Lithium's Arkansas unit. A binding offtake with Hydro Lithium covers 150 tpa of LCE.
Flare Therapeutics closed an $85M Series C led by Third Rock and Nextech, with Lilly and Novartis joining. Anna Protopapas takes over as CEO as the biotech advances transcription-factor drugs into the clinic.
Zerodha's Nithin Kamath explains why direct mutual funds outperform regular plans, citing Coin's ₹1.6 lakh crore AUM and the compounding cost of distributor commissions.
Mbappe sets two World Cup records as France reaches semifinals. The star forward's eighth goal of the tournament sealed a 2-0 win over Morocco.
Trump updated Netanyahu on US strikes in the Gulf as Iran reported fresh attacks. The call came amid a WSJ report of an Iranian plot to kill Trump, adding new uncertainty to oil markets and defense stocks.
Iran's supreme leader dies; funeral in Mashhad. Succession uncertainty could roil oil markets and regional stability. ICE exposure via oil futures clearing.
Weidong 'Bill' Guan admitted to laundering $67M through the media company's accounts. Revenue jumped 410%. The case shows compliance risks for media companies processing crypto and donations.
Oil barely moved, with Brent at $76.3, as U.S. Iran technical talks persist despite Trump's ceasefire claim. The gap between rhetoric and diplomacy keeps crude in limbo.
Telstra shares ended the week flat at A$5 after a network outage disrupted 000 calls and payments. The muted reaction suggests institutional holders are unfazed by the operational risk.
Nvidia joined a $100 million seed extension for voice AI startup Gradium. The funding accelerates voice AI development, a sector that demands Nvidia's GPU power.