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Giftze Lets You Send a Gift Anywhere in the UAE Without Ever Asking for an Address

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Italian Chinook Crashes in Bosnia, Killing Four on an EU Peacekeeping Training Flight

Oct 30, 2026

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Thailand's Tourist Arrivals Are Down 4.1 Percent This Year While Its Hotels Keep Expanding

Oct 30, 2026

Business

Kospi Sinks 4.9% and the Nikkei Falls 2.5% as Amazon and Intel Revive AI Cost Fears and Treasury Yields Slip Below 5%

Oct 30, 2026

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Afshar, Kang, Kurmaz and Vitale Make the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2027 Shortlist

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Intel Plunges After Hours as a Weak Fourth-Quarter Forecast Overshadows a 78% Jump in Data Centre Sales

Revenue rose 21% to $16.5 billion, yet Intel guided fourth-quarter profit to half the current level and said the PC downturn will last into mid-2027, sending shares down as much as 23%.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read

The Robert Noyce Building at Intel's headquarters on Mission College Boulevard in Santa Clara, California, a blue glass tower with a banner on its facade and an Intel sign at the entrance, photographed on 2 July 2023, a file photograph of the headquarters and not of this week's results

Business

Amazon Stock Slides After Hours Despite AWS Growing 39% as Free Cash Flow Turns to a $42 Billion Outflow

Record profit and the fastest cloud growth in almost five years were not enough, as a $77.3 billion quarter of spending and an earnings miss sent Amazon shares sharply lower in extended trading.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read

The glass and steel Amazon Spheres conservatories among office towers on the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle, seen from 6th Avenue with pedestrians on the pavement, photographed on 9 April 2020, a file photograph of the company's campus and not of the earnings report

Business

Alphabet Closes 12.6% Lower in Its Worst Day Ever, but Most Stocks Rise as the Nasdaq Falls 1.4%

The record Alphabet loss dragged the Nasdaq down, yet the equal-weight index and small caps gained as health care led, with Amazon and Intel already sliding once the market closed.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read

The balcony and carved lettering of the New York Stock Exchange at 11 Wall Street with an American flag, a No Entry sign for Wall Street at right and office towers behind, photographed on 19 August 2015, a file photograph of the exchange building and not of Thursday's trading

Business

Alphabet Heads for Its Worst Day on Record, Shedding About $500 Billion, as Nasdaq Slides

Shares fell as much as 13.5% after earnings, with ServiceNow, Caterpillar and Sprouts also sinking, while small caps rose as the AI trade took a hit on Thursday.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read

The columned neoclassical front of the New York Stock Exchange at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan with flags below the pediment, photographed on 17 May 2012, a file photograph of the exchange building and not of Thursday's trading

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A Russian Jet Drone Kills 14 on a Dnipro Station Platform as Russia Reports 613 Drones Toward Moscow

Officials say an air alert was active when the drone struck a platform beside a Zaporizhzhia-bound commuter train. Zelenskyy tied the attack to eased sanctions and asked for tougher ones.

Oct 29, 2026/2 min read

Covered platforms and blue passenger carriages beneath the main building of Dnipro railway station in Ukraine, photographed on 14 May 2021, a file photograph of the station and not of Thursday's strike or its victims

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Business

US Economy Grew at a 3.4% Pace in the Third Quarter as AI Spending Lifted Business Investment

Oct 29, 2026

Aircraft parked at stands on the Terminal 2 apron at Dubai International Airport with the long terminal building and desert scrub behind, photographed on 24 October 2024, a file photograph of the airport and not of this winter's schedules

Travel

KLM, Finnair and Wizz Air Skip Dubai Until March as Lufthansa Pushes Its Return to 25 November

Oct 29, 2026

Bunches of parsley, green onions and other vegetables on a supermarket produce shelf in Clearwater, Florida, with a 99-cent price tag, photographed on 25 September 2020, a file photograph illustrative of grocery shopping and not of Instacart or DoorDash

Technology

DoorDash Agrees to Buy Instacart for About $17 Billion, Paying $65 a Share

Oct 29, 2026

A single gold-coloured physical bitcoin coin lying on a dark surface, photographed on 14 February 2018, a stock illustration of bitcoin and not of Thursday's price move

Crypto

Bitcoin Slips Below $80,000 as Samsung and Alphabet Sell-Offs and a Hawkish Fed Hit Crypto

Oct 29, 2026

A grey NASA orbiter mosaic of the wide, steep-walled summit caldera of the Martian volcano Arsia Mons, dated 13 June 2005, a file image of the volcano named in the story and not of the elongated cloud

Technology

Mars's Strangest Cloud May Freeze Straight From Vapour With No Dust Seed, a New Study Suggests

Oct 29, 2026

A page of a Los Angeles County mail ballot for California's Proposition 50 special election showing the voting instructions and the final measure, dated 3 October 2025, a file image of a California ballot and not of any ballot in the Justice Department's list

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Judge Rejects Justice Department Bid to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots Six Days Before the Midterms

Oct 29, 2026

Piero della Francesca's Baptism of Christ, showing Christ with hands pressed together being baptised by John the Baptist beside a tree with a dove above, a reproduction of the painting in the National Gallery, London, dated after 1451 and one of the gallery's own Piero works named in the story

Lifestyle

London's National Gallery Plans the Largest Piero della Francesca Show Yet, Opening in October 2027

Oct 29, 2026

A blue box of white Hebrew-lettered party ballot papers at a polling station in the HaBiluyim School in Ramat Gan, Israel, photographed on 17 September 2019, a file photograph of ballot papers from the September 2019 Knesset election and not of this week's vote

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Israel's Count Nears 90 Percent With No Bloc at 61 as Likud Alleges Arab Parties Stole the Vote

Oct 29, 2026

In Pictures

A hazy view over the crowded rooftops, minarets and hillside of the city of Taizz in Yemen under a pale sky, photographed on 18 August 2013, a file photograph of the city and not of the current siege or of any person affected

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Human Rights Watch Says the Houthi Siege of Taizz May Amount to the War Crime of Starvation

The rights group says Houthi forces encircled Yemen's third-largest city this month, and cites UN figures on empty flour stocks, a failing health system and halved water production.

Oct 29, 2026