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.
Democrat Josh Turek has defeated Trump-backed Republican Ashley Hinson in Iowa, becoming the state’s first Democratic senator in more than a decade and helping Democrats take control of the US Senate.
NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004 to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, was due to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday after a failed rescue attempt, ending a mission planned to last just two years.
Family doctors in England will trial simple blood tests designed to spot some of the most common cancers earlier, in what is described as a world-first study involving more than 20,000 patients.
Democrat Abdul El-Sayed has defeated Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan, becoming the first Muslim elected to the US Senate and holding a seat Democrats could not afford to lose.
Novo Nordisk has raised its full-year outlook for the third time this year after sales of its Wegovy weight-loss pill beat forecasts, in a boost to its fight to win back ground from rival Eli Lilly.
Sweden’s central bank has raised its policy rate to 2% for the first time in more than three years, signalling further increases are likely as war-driven energy costs threaten to push inflation above target.
Most currency strategists polled by Reuters expect the rupee to give up recent gains and weaken to 96.00 per dollar by end-January, with record foreign outflows and higher oil prices outweighing central-bank intervention.
JD Wetherspoon has reported an 8.2% rise in like-for-like sales in the first 14 weeks of its financial year and plans up to 25 new pubs, although growth has eased in recent weeks and its chairman cautions that profit forecasts still depend heavily on sales.
Britain and the European Union have agreed a draft deal to remove most post-Brexit checks on food and farm exports, with a 200-page text now before EU ambassadors ahead of a summit on 20 November — though the changes will not take effect for some time.
South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple missiles from its east coast into the East Sea on Wednesday morning, hours after Kim Yo Jong said Pyongyang saw no need for dialogue with the United States.
