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STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week.The awards are considered among the world’s most prestigious honors for achievements in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics and peace.The winners will join the pantheon of Nobel laureates, from Albert Einstein to Mother Teresa.For the peace prize, U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated several times by people within the U.S. as well as politicians abroad since 2018. His name also was put forth in December by a Republican congresswoman for his brokering of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and some Arab states.Here are some things…

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — A fire broke out at a Chevron oil refinery just outside Los Angeles on Thursday night, sending towering flames into the air that were visible for miles. Officials in El Segundo, California, urged people to stay indoors. In a statement issued about 30 minutes after the flames began, they said there was no immediate threat to public safety and no evacuations had been ordered.There were no injuries at the Chevron El Segundo Refinery and all personnel were accounted for, the company said in a statement late Thursday, adding that a monitoring system indicated the fire…

MUNICH (AP) — Munich Airport was temporarily shut down overnight after several drone sightings in the area, the latest mysterious drone overflights in the airspace of European Union member countries, officials said. Germany’s air traffic control restricted flights at the airport shortly after 10 p.m. on Thursday and then halted them altogether, airport operators said in a statement. Seventeen flights were unable to take off, affecting almost 3,000 passengers, while 15 arriving flights were diverted to three other airports in Germany and one in Vienna, Austria. Flights in and out of the airport resumed at 5 a.m. (0300 GMT), said…

SYDNEY (AP) — The only Australian soldier to be charged with a war crime in Afghanistan pleaded not guilty Friday, but a prosecutor said he is unlikely to stand trial before 2027.Oliver Schulz, 44, is accused of shooting Afghan man Dad Mohammad three times in the head in an Uruzgan province wheat field in May 2012.Schulz made his first appearance in the New South Wales state Supreme Court in Sydney on Friday and pleaded not guilty to the war crime of murder.A trial date would usually be set on such an appearance, but national security concerns have prevented prosecutors and…

Apple CEO Tim Cook holds a next generation iPhone 17 during an Apple special event at Apple headquarters on September 09, 2025 in Cupertino, California.Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesApple on Thursday night said that it was removing ICEBlock and other apps from its App Store that can be used to anonymously report sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.The move came after pressure on Apple from Attorney General Pam Bondi, and amid controversy over the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement of immigration law with ICE agents and other authorities.The FBI said last week that a gunman whose attack on a…

Fresh off a $6.6 billion share sale that made it the world’s most valuable private company, OpenAI’s TikTok-style video app, powered by its new artificial intelligence model, Sora 2, is going viral. Despite the gated release that requires an invite code, the video creation tool has already shot to the number three spot on Apple’s App Store and sparked a wave of deepfakes, including a viral clip of CEO Sam Altman shoplifting GPUs.Internally, the rollout has reignited a long-running debate inside OpenAI about how to balance safety with creative freedom. A person familiar with internal strategy at the company said…

Skyline of Tokyo, Japan.Jackyenjoyphotography | Moment | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets opened mostly higher Friday, tracking Wall Street gains as investors shrugged off the U.S. government shutdown.Investors are waiting to see how long the shutdown will last to assess the gravity of its economic repercussions. Historically, government shutdowns in the U.S. have not been market-moving events.Japan’s September unemployment rate rose to 2.6%, government data showed Friday, higher than the 2.4% expected by economists polled by Reuters. The latest reading compared with the 2.3% unemployment rate in August.The country’s September manufacturing purchasing managers’ index reading will be released later in the day.…

Ange Postecoglou said Nottingham Forest fans who chanted he would be ‘sacked in the morning’ were “entitled to their opinion”, but insisted his side are on the right track despite their Europa League defeat to FC Midtjylland.Forest fans directed their chants towards the Australian after they were beaten 3-2 at the City Ground, with Midtjylland scoring twice from set-pieces before a late third on the break. The defeat means Postecoglou is still without a win with four defeats from his six matches in charge since replacing Nuno Espirito Santo, making him the first permanent Forest boss to be winless in…

Stocks @ Night is a daily newsletter delivered after hours, giving you a first look at tomorrow and last look at today. Sign up for free to receive it directly in your inbox. Here’s what CNBC TV’s producers were watching on Thursday and what’s on the radar for Friday’s session. Another day, another record The Dow , S & P 500 and Nasdaq hit fresh all-time highs as the U.S. government shutdown entered its second day. Nvidia posted its sixth straight positive gain, the longest winning streak since late June. Despite closing lower Thursday, the Health Care Select Sector SPDR…

From $62,000 hotel suites to race packages with six-figure price tags, the Singapore Grand Prix is a windfall for businesses near the Marina Bay track.But the money isn’t staying in Singapore. Data shows travelers are also spending across Asia before and after the three-day Formula One race, which begins Friday.Flight bookings analyzed by marketing platform Sojern indicate that, among those with onward trips, a quarter of Americans and Canadians are adding trips to Japan, 18% of Europeans are also visiting Thailand, and nearly one-third of Australians are tacking on trips to Indonesia, overwhelmingly to Bali.Other travelers are pairing this year’s…