Month: October 2026

Global stock markets rose on Tuesday as Anthropic’s long-awaited IPO prospectus renewed hope in the AI trade. The frontier AI firm said revenue had grown fourteenfold in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2025, and disclosed a $112 billion cash pile. Its $80 billion ...

Israelis cast ballots in a tight election with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting to retain power, but analysts cautioned the vote was unlikely to significantly alter the country’s stance on foreign policy or security. Israelis are divided on key issues, including threats to their country’s democratic institutions and settler violence, ...

Brazil’s currency suffered its worst daily fall this century and its benchmark stock index plummeted 14% as investors soured on the country’s economic prospects following President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s reelection. During his third term, Brazil’s budget deficit expanded to more than 8% of GDP as government spending soared ...

Andy’s view Almost 14 years into Xi Jinping’s norm-busting reign, just about everybody is unhappy with his economy. The rich have been stung by a surprise 20% tax on their offshore wealth, much of it squirreled away in trusts in Hong Kong and Singapore, triggering a new rush for foreign ...

Voters head to the polls to elect 120 members of the Knesset in an election that will determine whether Benjamin Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition can remain in power. The election is the first to be held since the Hamas-led attacks on 7 October 2023 Follow our live blog here What you ...

For decades the idea of eugenics has been taboo. Now it is returning in a new commercial guise For a very long time, I dreamed of being cured. I was born in 1981. I learned to walk early enough, but I stumbled and fell more easily than other children. My ...

In Prima Facie, she plays a rising-star barrister, well versed in defending men accused of sexual violence. Then she is raped by a colleague, and her world implodes. Erivo talks about the potential impact of the film – and how she is navigating her stratospheric success Cynthia Erivo is contemplating ...

No private individual should have the power to determine US foreign policy, as Musk has attempted to do in Ukraine He’s Exhibit A on why billionaire wealth should be taxed, why we must get big money out of politics, why billionaires shouldn’t be allowed to buy up major media, and ...

From apps that block distractions to stripped-down phones, young people are finding ways to unplug from platforms they say profit from their attention Nelissa Moukoudi, 19, a university student in Canada, noticed a shift once she joined Instagram and TikTok. “My social life completely plummeted and it felt like my ...

This intimate, warm, thoughtful three-parter about the Friends actor speaks to his friends, family and ex-girlfriends – and their adoration for him is overwhelming “God, you can do whatever you want to me, just please make me famous.” So prayed Matthew Perry when he was a young unknown actor auditioning ...