A large anti-Israeli banner portraying an image of a Palestinian fighter and the slogan in Persian and Hebrew, “Endless Voice of Resistance” is erected in Palestine Square in Tehran on December 31, 2025. Israel’s Mossad spy agency issued a direct call on December 31, 2025,urging Iranians to press on with protests, saying it was supporting…
Imported BYD vehicles are parked at a port on March 27, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images News | Getty Images Chinese auto giant BYD on Friday is expected to dethrone U.S. rival Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles on a calendar-year basis. The milestone would cap an extraordinary…
European markets were set to open slightly higher on Friday, kicking off the first trading day of the year in positive territory. The U.K.’s FTSE 100 index was on track to open up around 0.2%, according to IG, with Germany’s DAX, France’s CAC and Italy’s FTSE MIB also poised to open at least 0.2% higher….
HANGZHOU, China — In what is sometimes dubbed China’s Silicon Valley, tech giants and startups in Hangzhou are racing to build cutting-edge chips, robotics and brain-computer interfaces. Across town, aspiring founders are creating AI pets and fortune-telling apps. The city on China’s southeastern coast is reinventing itself as an artificial intelligence hub. A year after the…
People celebrate the New Year at the Bank of China building in Central in Hong Kong, China, January 1, 2026. Lam Yik | Reuters Asia-Pacific markets are set to open mixed Friday to kick off the new year. All three major indexes in the U.S. pulled back on New Year’s Eve, but still clocked gains…
A photograph shows damaged military vehicles, reportedly sent by the United Arab Emirates to support Southern Transitional Council (STC) separatist forces, following an air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition in the port of Mukalla, southern Yemen, on December 30, 2025. Stringer | Afp | Getty Images Flights at Yemen’s Aden international airport were…
Yum Brands logo Dado Ruvic | Reuters Sapphire Foods India said on Thursday it will merge with Devyani International, in a move that is likely to consolidate local franchisee partners of Yum Brands, the owner of KFC and Pizza Hut. The deal, first reported by the local Economic Times, comes as fast-food franchisees in India face slowing same-store…
TSMC offices in San Jose, California, on April 18, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The U.S. government has granted an annual licence to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing to import U.S. chip manufacturing equipment to its facilities in Nanjing, China, the chipmaker said on Thursday. The approval “ensures uninterrupted fab operations and product deliveries,” the…
Police officers walk at the site of an explosion that ripped through a bar in Crans-Montana on January 1, 2026. Several people were killed and others injured when an explosion ripped through a bar in the luxury Alpine ski resort town of Crans Montana, Swiss police said early on January 1. Maxime Schmid | Afp…
One kilogram and a five hundred gram gold bars next to one kilogram silver bars at The Vaults Group gold dealers arranged in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Gold and silver prices lost ground on Wednesday as investors booked profits after a historic annual rally and exchange…
