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Halloween festival showcases Londonderry’s cultural reinvention
City is leaving behind its Troubles legacy to embrace investment and vibrant arts scene
Harris’s other electoral foe: inflation
American voters’ discontent with high living costs could decide who wins the White House next week
Key Icahn holding sputters in fresh blow to his corporate empire
Midwestern US refinery CVR Energy suspends its dividend, a crucial source of cash for the veteran financier
Did Labour mislead UK public ahead of Budget?
Rachel Reeves’ tax-raising measures come after she pledged not to be a levy-hiking chancellor
The new face of European illiberalism
Prime Minister Robert Fico has tightened his grip on Slovakia using Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán’s playbook as inspiration
America’s gender-gap election has a long history
The question of whether the US can stomach a woman as president remains open
Volkswagen is in crisis again. Can it be reformed?
Europe’s largest carmaker is at war with workers and politicians as it tries to navigate a painful EV transition
Bank of Japan holds rates but signals normalisation still on track
Political uncertainty following election upset raises risks of abrupt policy shifts, warn analysts
Samsung falls short of expectations as chipmaker fails to reap AI benefits
Third-quarter operating profit far lower than analyst consensus and trails domestic rival SK Hynix
Samsung’s semiconductor division, lagging behind rivals in AI chips, reports a 40% drop in profit from the previous quarter
Samsung reported $6.6 billion in quarterly operating profit, a 12% decrease from the previous quarter and below market expectations. Read ...
How Russia wiped this Ukrainian city ‘off the face of the Earth’
The Ukrainian city Vovchansk has no great history but its geography could not be more tragic. Read More
Trump campaign attacks Democrats over Biden ‘garbage’ fumble
Furore over president’s comments comes just days before knife-edge US presidential election
Chinese sanctions hit US drone maker supplying Ukraine
Move by Beijing leaves California company rushing to find new battery providers
Chinese factory activity expands ahead of expected economic support package
First rise in six months comes as Beijing set to unveil fiscal stimulus targeting struggling local governments
Gen Z and young millennial employees are missing the equivalent of one day’s work every week due to mental health concerns, research shows
That’s costing the British economy a staggering $176 billion. Read More
Mark Zuckerberg says a lot more AI generated content is coming to fill up your Facebook and Instagram feeds
First we had friends in our social media feeds, then we had influencers. The next natural phase of the evolution ...
Siemens to buy simulation software group Altair for $10.6bn
Deal likely to mark a conclusion to the consolidation in engineering software industry
US draws up draft Israel-Lebanon ceasefire plan
Proposal leaked as senior Washington officials head to the region in an effort to end the year-long conflict
Argentina’s Javier Milei fires foreign minister over pro-Cuba vote
President’s office says the country is ‘categorically opposed to the dictatorship’ in Havana
Microsoft and Alphabet’s latest earnings show once again that it’s all about the cloud
Microsoft’s cloud helped to lift its fiscal first-quarter results after Google’s parent reported similarly strong cloud growth a day earlier. ...
Closure of UK inheritance tax ‘loophole’ to hit estates of wealthy pensioners
Experts say big tax bills could result from Rachel Reeves’ move in the Budget
Starbucks ends non-dairy mark-up as new chief looks to stem traffic slide
Move aimed at price-sensitive consumers comes as Brian Niccol pledges to simplify ‘overly complex’ menu
FTX’s engineering chief Nishad Singh spared prison time in fraud case
Coder was one of several members of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle to testify against their former boss at trial
Meta sees AI spending accelerating as earnings top forecasts
Mark Zuckerberg cites ‘progress across our apps and business’ at Facebook and Instagram parent
Reeves’ first Budget leaves key economic challenges unresolved
OBR says announcements amount to one of the biggest fiscal loosenings of recent decades
Microsoft’s revenue beats estimates on strong cloud demand from AI boom
Sales at division rose 22% to $38.9bn in the quarter
How to watch Game 5 of the 2024 World Series live online for free—without cable
The Yankees turned things around last night. Can they keep that going? Read More
Microsoft beats Wall Street expectations with a big help from its cloud business
CEO Satya Nadella attributed the faster-than-expected growth to artificial intelligence transforming the workplace. Read More
Airbus sticks to aircraft production target despite supply chain woes
Board plans to propose renewing Guillaume Faury’s mandate as chief executive next year
