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Julia Stiles and Ezra Sosa Share Emotional Farewell After 'DWTS' Elimination

BLS Polymers shares open 65.3% above IPO price

US Buildings Threatened by Wildfires Could Triple by 2060

Capital-markets shares rally as Motilal Oswal and Angel One lead gains

Why Pregnancy Cost Estimates Fail: A Family’s $9,000 Surprise

ITC shares rise as analysts anticipate gradual cigarette-business recovery

Brodeur’s Overtime Goal Secures Bethlehem’s Second Consecutive Sectional Title

Reliance rally puts historical one-year return pattern in focus

Rare 1970 Plymouth ‘Cuda 426 Hemi Listed for $400,000

Kuwait edges Oman 1-0 in veterans Gulf Cup in Doha

The Digital Burden: Why Instant Messaging Feels Like a Full-Time Job

Saudi Aramco quarterly profit climbs 34.6% amid elevated oil prices

Korea’s Labor Share of GDP Hits Record Low Amid Semiconductor Boom

Australia raises benchmark rate to highest level in 18 years

How China could respond to Trump's new tariffs

From retaliatory tariffs on US goods like car parts and soy beans to controls on raw minerals essential for American manufacturing -- analysts say China has plenty of options if it wants to reply to fresh US levies.

'Art for everyone': Mucha's masterpiece to find home in Prague, 100 years on

A new Prague museum dedicated to the Czech Art Nouveau painter Alfons Mucha will offer "art for everyone" when it opens this month, ultimately housing his giant Slav Epic masterpiece after decades in storage, his great-grandson told AFP.

Trump halts Canada and Mexico tariffs, China still targeted

US President Donald Trump delayed the start of tariffs on neighbors Mexico and Canada for a month Monday -- but China remained in the firing line for levies that are putting the global economy on edge.

Apple blasts porn app for iPhones in Europe

Apple on Monday called a pornography app available for iPhones in the European Union a danger to children, saying landmark digital rules there allowed it to get on to its handsets via an alternative to its App Store.

France pitches AI summit as 'wake-up call' for Europe

France hosts top tech players next week at an artificial intelligence summit meant as a "wake-up call" for Europe as it struggles with AI challenges from the United States and China.

Hundreds march in New York against Trump's trans policy

Hundreds of people protested in New York Monday against President Donald Trump's executive orders restricting treatment for transgender children, and reports that a local hospital group consequently cancelled appointments for two trans youths.

Lindsey Vonn: World Ski Championships throwback

US speed star Lindsey Vonn will make her return to the World Ski Championships in Saalbach -- her ninth -- after coming out of retirement.

Neymar homecoming is reminder of promise unfulfilled

When Neymar left Brazil aged 21 in 2013, bound for Barcelona, he set off to establish himself as a footballing great, seemingly destined to be remembered as his country's greatest player since Pele.

Eliasch offers 'hope' and big revenue growth for IOC's 'phenomenal brand'

Johan Eliasch has told AFP that if elected Olympics chief he would offer an essential quality in a "divisive world" -- that of "hope" -- and also the hard-headed business sense to significantly increase the revenues of a "phenomenal brand."

Musk's US government 'takeover' sounds alarm bells

Elon Musk has begun swinging his wrecking ball at the US government, with concerns growing over the unprecedented power that President Donald Trump has handed to the world's richest man.

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