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When Hou Yujie isn’t convincing customers to rent traditional Chinese clothing for photos at the country’s famous Forbidden City, she and her friends are checking stocks.Hou recently put 10% of her money in the market. In just a few days, she earned one month’s salary — and she’s thrilled. “Interest rates for bank deposits are so low I don’t even want to bother,” Hou said at her shop outside the Beijing tourist site. “Stocks are a hot topic right now.”Chinese stocks, once deemed univestable by many, are luring both local and foreign investors impressed by recent returns. The Shanghai Composite hit…
Howie RubinJonathon Ziegler | Patrick McMullan | Getty ImagesFamed money manager Howard Rubin and his former personal assistant were arrested Friday morning on charges of sex trafficking and transporting women across state lines for commercial sex acts over the course of a decade.Prosecutors alleged a litany of stomach-churning, abusive acts against women by the 70-year-old Rubin, who first gained infamy in the 1980s with an unauthorized trade that cost his then-firm tens of millions in losses.A federal magistrate judge in Brooklyn, New York, ordered Rubin detained without bail, for now, after prosecutors argued the former Salomon Brothers bond trader was…
Anthropic is stepping up its global enterprise ambitions.The $183 billion artificial intelligence startup has grown its business customer base from under 1,000 to more than 300,000 in just two years, as demand for Claude’s models accelerates across industries and regions.On Friday, the company announced it will triple its international workforce and expand its applied AI team fivefold in 2025, as it scales beyond the U.S. and intensifies competition with OpenAI, Microsoft and Google.That expansion comes as international demand increasingly drives the company’s momentum.Claude’s global usage has reached an inflection point: nearly 80% of activity now comes from outside the United…
They set sail not with missiles, nor with bullets, nor with armies, but with bread, medicine, and the stubborn conviction that conscience still has a voice in this world. The first boats were small and few, most campaigns consisting of only a single vessel. Today, the Global Sumud Flotilla sails on a scale the world has never seen: more than 50 vessels, carrying several hundred activists, lawyers, parliamentarians and journalists from over 44 countries. From Spain, Italy, Tunisia, and Greece, it rose like a fleet of defiance, bearing on its decks the scattered humanity of the earth – writers, doctors, athletes,…
Sep 26, 2025, 10:28 AM ETWrexham boss Phil Parkinson has been honoured by the city of Wrexham. Alex Dodd – CameraSport via Getty ImagesPhil Parkinson has said it was a “humbling” experience to be awarded the Freedom of Wrexham this week.Parkinson swapped his customary casual look on the touchline for a suit as Wrexham councillors bestowed the honour on the Red Dragons boss, who has guided the club into the Championship after three successive promotions.Wrexham co-owners Rob Mac and Ryan Reynolds were awarded the city’s highest civic honour by the council in April 2023.”It’s a great honour and it is very…
We all want to be the type of person who marches into a meeting brimming with confidence, who meets new people without thinking, “What do they think about me?”, who calmly looks over a room when making a killer speech and isn’t intimidated by all those eyes staring back, who doesn’t fret about what to say in that job interview or first date.But all too often, crippling self-doubt creeps in. We tell ourselves: “I can’t do it!”We’re answering back: Yes, you can! As Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” Here is a collection of inspiring and…
From cheering to jeering. Aston Villa forward Morgan Rogers has lacked his usual spark this season but gets his next chance to address his poor form against Fulham, live on Sky Sports, this Sunday.The struggles of the 2024/25 Young Player of the Season in the opening seven fixtures have mirrored those of Villa as a whole. An absence of ideas in the final third, careless mistakes and performances that have sparked justified criticism.Villa tasted victory for the first time in the new campaign on Thursday against Bologna, an unconvincing 1-0 win at home in the Europa League, but Rogers’ problems…
Ruben Amorim has admitted he still “doesn’t know” which version of his team will turn up against Brentford as Manchester United go in search of back-to-back league wins for the first time since his appointmentUnited are yet to win consecutive games in the Premier League during Amorim’s 10 months in charge at Old Trafford.Victory over Chelsea last time out has given the Portuguese coach the chance to finally reach the milestone at the Gtech Community Stadium on Saturday.But Amorim says the long search for consistency means he still has concerns about what level of performance he will see against Keith…
Boeing 737 Max planes sit at the airport in Renton, Washington.Leslie Josephs | CNBCBoeing can sign off on some of its 737 Max and 787 Dreamliner planes before they’re handed over to customers, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday, the latest sign the manufacturer is regaining confidence from its regulator after years of safety crises.The FAA stopped allowing Boeing to issue its own airworthiness certificates for 737 Max airplanes in 2019 after two fatal crashes. It made a similar decision for Boeing 787s in 2022 because of production defects. Since the second Max crash, in March 2019, the FAA solely issued…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman listens to questions at a Q&A following a tour of the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, Sept. 23, 2025.Shelby Tauber | ReutersThis week, OpenAI redefined what momentum — and risk — look like in the artificial intelligence arms race.Now comes the hard part: Executing on CEO Sam Altman’s multitrillion-dollar vision.In a rapid-fire series of announcements, the company unveiled partnerships involving mind-bending sums of money and cemented its place at the center of the next wave of machine learning infrastructure.It began Monday with news that Nvidia plans to invest up to $100 billion to help OpenAI…