Hackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in about 20 minutes on Thursday — the biggest crypto theft on record — with roughly half the stolen assets since frozen and US law enforcement now involved.
Hackers drained about $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, in about 20 minutes on Thursday — the biggest crypto theft on record — with roughly half the stolen assets since frozen and US law enforcement now involved.
Hoax bomb threats forced evacuations at broadcasters including RTÉ, Sky and Nova TV on Friday, in a new escalation of a campaign that has already disrupted dozens of European flights this week. No explosives were found.
US investment-grade companies have sold a record $1.88 trillion of bonds this year, LSEG data shows, as the largest technology groups borrow heavily to fund their artificial intelligence ambitions.
October was the warmest on record at 1.75°C above pre-industrial levels, and 2026 is now virtually certain to become the second calendar year to exceed 1.5°C, the EU’s Copernicus climate service said on Friday.
Pope Leo XIV left Rome on Friday for a 12-day tour of Uruguay, Argentina and Peru — the longest trip of his pontificate, undertaken just three weeks after surgery for lung cancer.
US employers added 165,000 jobs in October, far more than economists expected, and the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, the Labor Department said on Friday.
Costa Rica’s Rebeca Grynspan won 12 “encourage” votes in the Security Council’s eighth straw poll, her strongest showing yet, while Türkiye’s Feridun Sinirlioğlu managed only three on his debut.
More than 3,200 migrants were rescued in the first six days of November as arrivals approach the record levels of 2024, regional leader Fernando Clavijo said.
London Underground drivers will walk out for eight 24-hour strikes between late November and February, the RMT union has announced, in a dispute over new working arrangements that threatens disruption for millions of passengers.
Gadi Eisenkot has won the backing of a majority of lawmakers to try to form Israel’s next government, but President Isaac Herzog says it is still unclear who can break the deadlock — and will name his choice on Sunday.
Just 4.65 million couples married in China in the first nine months of 2026, the lowest figure in 18 years, as Beijing’s efforts to encourage family formation struggle against a deepening demographic squeeze.
