Suranjana TewariAsia Business Correspondent, Singapore Getty Images One in seven people in the world use TikTok. Yet for the company behind such a cultural phenomenon, the last few years have been a rollercoaster. Concerns over the app first surfaced more than five years ago, prompting President Trump, in his first term, to sign an executive…
Michael Selig, U.S. President Trump’s nominee to serve as Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman, testifies in a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on his nomination on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Nov. 19, 2025. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an amicus brief in federal court on Tuesday to assert…
“Literature can only ever hope to hold chaos together, perhaps only by a comma,” said Laszlo Krasznahorkai in his acceptance speech for the Man Booker International Prize — a sentiment that now resonates even more deeply with his 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature win. The Hungarian novelist, long revered for his labyrinthine sentences and apocalyptic…
Entry requirements to the UK for dual nationals are being overhauled as part of sweeping changes to the immigration system. Source link
Peter and Barbie Reynolds were released by the Taliban in September after being detained for seven-and-a-half months. Source link
Toilet bowl rings and stains are one more thing in the bathroom that can leave it looking unclean, even if it is spotlessly cleaned. Toilet bowl rings are usually seen as shades of brown, grey, or pink rings encircling the toilet waterline. They appear mostly due to the presence of minerals from hard water.Many people…
NEW DELHI: Indian fast bowler Umran Malik, often compared with Pakistan’s legendary Shoaib Akhtar for his raw pace, has been left out of Jammu and Kashmir’s squad for the Ranji Trophy preparatory camp in Pondicherry. The decision has surprised many fans, especially given Malik’s experience at the international level. Picked by Kolkata Knight Riders for…
ABC Randa Abdel-Fattah says a decision to exclude her from the Adelaide Festival was a ‘shameless act of anti-Palestinian racism’. One of Australia’s biggest cultural festivals has been left in disarray after a decision to disinvite a prominent Australian-Palestinian writer, triggering a massive backlash and mass exodus from fellow authors. The board of the Adelaide…
Signage at the SK Hynix Inc. booth at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. The expo runs through Nov. 10. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images South Korea’s SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, boosted by surging…
Nikola Stojadinovic | E+ | Getty Images Some Americans ages 50 and over are exiting retirement and returning to work, according to a new AARP survey. Most surveyed individuals who are “unretiring” say they’re motivated to make money amid today’s high living costs, the nonprofit organization, which represents people ages 50 and older, found. In…