Day: October 20, 2026

North Korean state media has published photos of the dictator with his daughter after the unsubstantiated rumour spread. ...

South Africa’s president said the country must prepare for a future where it loses preferential trade access to the US because of the growing rift between the nations. Relations have deteriorated since US President Donald Trump cut aid to Africa, expelled Pretoria’s ambassador, and falsely accused South Africa of carrying ...

The US banned Chinese AI firm DeepSeek from most government systems and asked agencies to remove all technology built with it, as competition for AI supremacy between the superpowers heats up. US firms have long accused Chinese rivals of “distilling” their AI models, in what the White House’s technology advisor ...

French government bonds again sold off on growing concern that cascading political and fiscal crises would hammer the EU’s second-biggest economy and potentially ripple across the bloc. Spreads between French 10-year debt and the German equivalent — Europe’s benchmark — widened to their highest since 2012, reflecting the risk premium ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk pledged to give a share in the company to every US child, the latest effort by AI titans to win over an increasingly skeptical public. Musk’s offer follows Anthropic’s announcement that it would put at least 5% of its shares into a public-benefit fund, and reports that ...

A South Korean tech firm’s disastrous IPO offered the latest signal of investor skittishness about the AI trade, even as stock markets appeared to have recovered from a bearish run. Elice Group shares plunged 30% on their debut, and new analysis showed investors were upping their purchases of credit default ...

RAF Typhoon fighters will fly defensive missions over cities and infrastructure, in extension of UK support for Riyadh RAF Typhoon fighters are to protect Saudi Arabia from attack by Yemen’s Houthis, flying defensive missions over the country’s cities and critical infrastructure, as western allies step up their intervention in the ...

Their overland routes to safety blocked off, several thousand people have boarded boats to escape gunfire, bombing and a dire humanitarian situation Abubaker Saeed was fishing in the Red Sea off Yemen’s coast last month when he noticed explosions in the distance. His mind turned immediately to his wife and ...

Scientists have discovered that an exotic particle that existed at the birth of the universe might solve one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology and help explain reality as we know it, according to a new study in Physical Review Letters. Our modern universe is dominated by matter, but it ...

The US secretary of state rejects accusations Ukrainians were dying because the US was withholding intelligence. ...