Dockworkers across 113 ports in 22 countries walked out on Friday, disrupting shipping and ferries in protest at ports being used for arms shipments and at the deaths of seafarers in wars from the Gulf to the Black Sea.
More than $2 trillion in market value is set to be wiped from the Nasdaq 100 in October, as Big Tech earnings intensify doubts over whether huge artificial intelligence spending can pay off quickly enough.
Astronomers have found a large, bright world orbiting beyond Neptune that could become the Solar System’s sixth recognised dwarf planet. The candidate, named 2026 ED138, may be up to 1,500 kilometres across — yet it went unnoticed for years in existing telescope data.
Foreign ministers from the world’s 20 largest economies meet in Atlanta on 30-31 October, but deep divisions over the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East are expected to block any unified statement.
Heat was linked to a record 710,000 deaths in 2023, with more than 70% attributable to human-caused climate change, according to the 2026 Lancet Countdown report, whose authors are calling for climate change to be formally recognised as a global health emergency.
Andreas Malm says the Home Office told him his presence in the UK is “not conducive to the public good”, days before he was due to speak alongside Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori.
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.
Germany’s inflation rate eased to 2.8% in October, below expectations, as energy price rises slowed and core inflation cooled, according to provisional official figures.
US stocks fell on Thursday as a record plunge in Alphabet shares revived fears that the AI spending boom is burning cash faster than it earns it — even as data showed the economy growing faster than expected.
Oil prices rose on Friday and headed for a fourth straight monthly gain after Yemen’s Houthis claimed attacks on Saudi oil facilities, keeping fears of supply disruption at the centre of the market.
