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West Midlands Police said it made 11 arrests as part of their operation at Aston Villa’s Europa League match with Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Birmingham on Thursday, which passed without serious incident.The league phase match at Villa Park, which the hosts won 2-0, became a major political event after the Israeli club’s supporters were banned from attending due to fears over their safety.The local police force, which deployed more than 700 officers over concerns of clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups, said a 21-year-old man was arrested for failing to comply with an order to remove a face covering while a…

TOKYO (AP) — Honda reported Friday that its profit for the first fiscal half through September fell 37% from the previous year, as the damage from President Donald Trump’s tariffs offset the lift from solid motorcycle sales.Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co. recorded a 311.8 billion yen ($2 billion) profit for April-September, down from 494.6 billion yen a year before.Sales over the six months totaled 10.6 trillion yen ($69 billion), down 1.5% from nearly 10.8 trillion yen.Honda lowered its profit projection for the fiscal year through March 2026 to 300 billion yen ($2 billion), which would be a decline of 64% from…

BANGKOK (AP) — It often starts with a text message asking if you are available on weekends, looking for a part-time job or you get a simple “hello” from an unknown number. Halfway across the world, a laborer is usually pulling in 12-16 hour days, sending non-stop messages, hoping someone will take the bait.The ultimate goal is always to take your money — victims have lost tens of billions to scams and hundreds of thousands of people are in forced labor to keep the schemes going. These workers are often housed in massive complexes scattered across southeast Asia, where the…

A growing number of travelers want more from their hotels than a soft bed and clean place to sleep.They want hotels that reflect their interests — be it art, music, fashion or work — and allow them to mingle with other travelers who share these passions too.That’s given lifestyle hotels a boost, with the global share of lifestyle rooms in new hotels roughly doubling since 2000, according to JLL’s Global Hotel Investment Outlook 2025.In 2025, some 25% of new hotel rooms in Europe were in lifestyle hotels, followed by 16% each in the Americas and Asia, the report shows.”Lifestyle and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — With the commissioning of its third aircraft carrier, China now boasts the second largest number of such ships in the world, though it still lags far behind the 11 operated by the U.S. Navy.The Fujian was officially put into service this week in a ceremony attended by top leader Xi Jinping, the official Xinhua news agency announced Friday. Its electromagnetic catapult launchers mark a technological advance that will help the navy to project power deep into the Pacific as it seeks to assert power in disputed waters in the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the…

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish prosecutors on Friday issued detention warrants for 21 people, including 17 referees and the president of a top-flight soccer club, as part of a widening investigation into a betting scandal.At least 18 suspects were detained for questioning in coordinated early-morning raids across Istanbul and 11 other provinces, according to the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor’s Office. The 17 referees, identified only by their initials, are being investigated for possible charges of “abuse of office” and “influencing the outcome of a match.”Murat Ozkaya, president of Turkish Super Lig club Eyupspor, and Fatih Sarac, former owner of Kasımpasa, were…

Traders works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE October’s job losses in the U.S. were nearly twice as high as a month earlier — the steepest for any October since 2003, data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas showed.The technology sector was the hardest hit, with 33,281 cuts, almost six times September’s total.Being laid off is an awful feeling — and it must feel bitterly ironic to work in a field that’s developing the very technology making you redundant.One person spared both redundancy fears and existential doubt is Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who just had…

The logo of SoftBank is displayed at a company shop in Tokyo, Japan January 28, 2025. Issei Kato | ReutersShares of Japan’s SoftBank Group resumed their slide on Friday, following a broader slump in AI-related stocks as investors once again grew wary of the sector’s lofty valuations.The group, which holds a wide range of AI investments across infrastructure, semiconductor, and application companies, saw shares drop more than 8%.This comes after SoftBank gained nearly 3% in the previous session, having plunged 10% on Wednesday to clock its worst day since April. It stares at about $53 billion market cap wipeout this week…

SHENZHEN, CHINA – AUGUST 26: An aerial view of the Shenzhen skyline on August 26, 2020 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province of China. (Photo by He Shaoping/VCG via Getty Images)Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesAsia-Pacific markets fell Friday, tracking Wall Street declines on persistent concerns over lofty valuations in artificial intelligence stocks.Shares of major AI companies fell Thursday stateside, weighing down on the broader U.S. market. The biggest declines were from Nvidia, Microsoft, Palantir Technologies, Broadcom and Advanced Micro Devices.Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index tumbled 2.03%. Shares of AI-related stocks were the key drag: SoftBank was down over 8%,…

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. Tesla This evening the vote tally came in and shareholders approved the pay package that gives Elon Musk $1 trillion if the company hits several metrics. Tesla stock closed down 3.5% on Thursday. It is now 8.7% from its December 2024 high. In the last three months, the stock is…