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Where does this leave Wales’ hopes of reaching next year’s World Cup? Dented, but far from over.The simple and quick route has been shut off by Belgium, who now hold all the aces going into November’s final round of games. It’s difficult to argue against the position Belgium hold, they were just the better side in Cardiff. Qualifying in November holds so many more benefits than just the glory of topping your qualifying group. Planning can start earlier, the scramble for the better training facilities and hotels is easier – you don’t have to run the gauntlet of the play-offs.For…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the opening bell in New York on October 13, 2025.Timothy A. Clary | Afp | Getty ImagesTreasury yields fell on Tuesday, sending a key rate below 4% as investors looked for safety due to simmering U.S.-China trade tensions. Traders also braced for a a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, who could offer more insights about future monetary policy decisions.The 10-year Treasury fell 2.7 basis points to a one-month low of 4.024%, at one point dipping below the key 4% for the first time since early…

General Motors will record a negative impact of $1.6 billion in its next quarter after tax incentives for electric vehicles were slashed by the U.S. and rules governing emissions are relaxed.Shares fell less than 2% before the opening bell Tuesday. The EV tax credit ended last month. The clean vehicle tax credit was worth $7,500 for new EVs and up to $4,000 for used ones. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency has been working on easing rules aimed at cleaning up auto tailpipe emissions as the Trump administration move to undo incentives for automakers to go electric. President Donald Trump has…

Abdullah Ahmed Jihad al-Hasani, a baby boy, not yet one year old. Masah Mohammad Hamza al-Rifi, a baby girl, not yet one year old. Celine Ahmed Mufid al-Yaziji, a baby girl, not yet one year old… a baby… not yet one year old.  Somebody’s whole world, gone in an instant. In Amsterdam, as the first winds of autumn swept through the city, the names of 69,000 people killed in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza were read aloud, one after the next, day and night without pause, for five full days. It is a staggering death toll, yet one that is vastly…

Barcelona have announced the launch of a special edition shirt in collaboration with pop star Ed Sheeran for the Clásico against Real Madrid later this month.Iconography from Sheeran’s eighth studio album, Play, will appear on the front of Barça’s shirt at the Santiago Bernabéu on Oct. 26 as part of the club’s continued sponsorship agreement with Spotify.A week earlier, on Oct. 19, Barça’s women’s team will adorn the jersey in their Liga F match against Granada.The English singer becomes the seventh act to appear in place of the Spotify logo on Barça’s kit, following Drake, Rosalía, The Rolling Stones, KAROL…

If you happen to be enjoying this month’s bout of FIFA World Cup qualifiers and other international fixtures, then make the most of it as this is the final October international break to take place as we know it.This is the result of a big change to FIFA’s match windows from next season, which was unanimously approved by the FIFA Council in 2023 as part of a wider reform of the men’s and women’s international competition itinerary.As such, Tuesday’s friendly between Mexico and Ecuador will be the final match that is played in an October international break in its present…

Oct 14, 2025, 02:54 AM ETA rat ran on the pitch during the second half of Belgium’s win over Wales on Monday. Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Offside via Getty ImagesWith Halloween right around the corner, Wales and Belgium were given an early fright when their World Cup qualifier was temporarily suspended when a rat ran onto the pitch.After disrupting proceedings shortly after the hour mark on Monday, the rat, after a short tour of the Cardiff City Stadium’s pristine surface, was eventually shooed from the field of play by Brennan Johnson following Real Madrid goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois’s attempts to catch it.The rat’s moment in…

U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he poses next to a sign before a family photo at a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza war, amid a U.S.-brokered prisoner-hostage swap and ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Oct. 13, 2025. Suzanne Plunkett | Reuters This might not be Christmas, but the war in the Middle East is over — at least according to U.S. President Donald Trump.On Monday, Trump declared at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, that the “long and painful nightmare” was finally over for both the Israelis and Palestinians. More straightforwardly, Trump gave an…

Prakash Singh | AFP | Getty ImagesGoogle will invest $15 billion to build data center capacity for a new artificial intelligence hub in southern India, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian announced at an event Tuesday.The investment will roll out over the next five years, and will be Google’s largest AI hub in the world outside of the U.S, Kurian added.Earlier on Monday, the Minister for Human Resources Development of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, Nara Lokesh, put the 1-gigawatt project at $10 billion. The deal comes after “a year of intense discussions and relentless effort,” and “is just the beginning,”…

LONDON — European stocks were lower on Tuesday morning, reversing largely positive sentiment at the start of the week, despite the threat of a new trade dispute between the U.S. and China.The pan-European Stoxx 600 was last seen trading 0.8% lower, with most sectors and major bourses in negative territory.In corporate news, shares of Michelin were 9.7% lower in early trade, after the company slashed its full-year guidance citing “further deterioration of the business environment.”The company said that despite year-on-year volume growth in the third quarter – even as “a chaotic business context” and uncertainty had weighed on demand –…