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Ameen Sameer Khalifa lies flat on the ground, hiding as the sound of heavy machine-gun fire, followed by unsettling silence, shatters the early morning calm in southern Gaza. “We’re dying for a piece of bread,” he says as his voice trembles. “God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs.” Ameen, who became the main provider for his family after Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza, left his makeshift tent in southern Gaza on 1 June and made his way to a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) food distribution centre in Rafah with the sole aim…

ChatGPT will be able to have kinkier conversations after OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the artificial intelligence company will soon allow its chatbot to engage in “erotica for verified adults.”OpenAI won’t be the first to try to profit from sexualized AI. Sexual content was a top draw for AI tools almost as soon as the boom in AI-generated imagery and words erupted in 2022.But the companies that were early to embrace mature AI also encountered legal and societal minefields and harmful abuse as a growing number of people have turned to the technology for companionship or titillation. Will a sexier…

Beth LindopCloseBeth LindopCorrespondentBased in Liverpool, Beth Lindop is ESPN’s Liverpool correspondent and also covers the WSL and UWCL.Sam MarsdenOct 17, 2025, 04:02 AM ETMatchday Two of this season’s UEFA Women’s Champions League saw some more exciting matchups and gave us a taste of what’s to come.The UWCL table has Barcelona, Real Madrid, Wolfsburg and OL Lyonnes at the top with perfect records, but Manchester United also join them with a 100% record after two games. This week, OL Lyonnes superstar Lily Yohannes scored a wonder goal, Paris Saint-Germain struggled while Chelsea and Arsenal overcame their recent blips, and Belgian minnows…

Oct 17, 2025, 03:25 AM ETFC Porto’s Victor Froholdt is the latest in a long line of midfielders to be linked with Manchester United, while Barcelona are monitoring Hoffenheim striker Fisnik Asllani. Join us for the latest transfer news and rumors from around the globe.Transfers homepage | Men’s grades | Women’s gradesTOP STORIES- Sources: Real Madrid’s Endrick wanted by multiple European clubs- Sources: Man United may extend Casemiro but salary key- Sources: Barça, Madrid tracking Mexican teen MoraFC Porto’s Victor Froholdt has a bright future ahead of him. Octavio Passos/Getty ImagesTRENDING RUMORS- Manchester United are tracking FC Porto’s Victor Froholdt alongside…

European markets traded firmly in the red on Friday as concerns over the banking sector reached the region.The Pan-European Stoxx 600 closed 0.95% lower, with all major indexes in negative territory.It comes as spillover from the U.S. banking sector hit European stocks on Friday, with the Stoxx Europe 600 Banks Index ending the session around 2.5% lower, paring deeper losses seen earlier in the session.In the U.S. on Thursday, shares of regional banks and investment bank Jefferies tumbled as fears mounted around some bad loans lurking on Wall Street.Global bank stocks sell off as fears mount over bad loansThe bankruptcy of two…

Signage at a Zion Bank branch in Orem, Utah, US, on Friday, April 7, 2023. George Frey | Bloomberg | Getty Images When you can’t repay a bank loan, that’s distressing — but probably not for the bank.But when tens of thousands of people, who had good credit ratings, can’t, it raises concerns about the health of the economy.And when it’s companies defaulting on very big loans, leading to charges — that is, money the bank writes off as a loss because it has given up on recovering it — and bankruptcies, it’s time for everyone to put on their…

They staggered out of the shadows like ghosts returning to the world of the living. On one side of the screen, western cameras zoomed in on the smiling faces of 20 freed Israeli men. Their names were broadcast. Their families profiled. Their reunions streamed live – bathed in warm light, tender hugs, endless coverage. On the other side – out of frame, almost invisible – nearly 2000 Palestinians emerged from prison gates that had swallowed years of their lives. No studio lights awaited them. No smiling anchors. No glossy headlines. Only gaunt faces, trembling hands, hollow eyes that spoke a different…

Key PointsDemand for copper is expected to surge over the next decade, powered partly by the ongoing AI boom and a ramp-up in European defense spending.A “fragility” of supply chains, magnified by the current flare-up of trade tensions, shows why a diversity of supply is critical going forward.London Metal Exchange CEO Matt Chamberlain said “every nation” is looking at supply dynamics, including diversity of delivery and smelting reinvestment.Renewed U.S.-China trade tensions underline supply challenges in copper markets, as the AI boom, increased defense spending and energy transition look set to turbo-charge demand for the metal over the next decade. Matt…

ROME (AP) — An explosive device detonated under the car of one of Italy’s leading investigative journalists that was parked outside his home, prompting condemnation Friday from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and others. No one was injured.Report, the investigative series on Italy’s state-run RAI3, said the explosion overnight destroyed the car of Sigfrido Ranucci and damaged a second family car and the house next to it in Pomezia, south of Rome. It said the blast was so powerful that it could have killed anyone passing by.Police, firefighters, forensic crews were investigating, Report said.Meloni expressed her solidarity with Ranucci, the lead…

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday celebrated his country’s status as the host of upcoming talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin, a meeting where the two leaders are expected to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump on Thursday announced his second meeting this year with Putin a day before he was to sit down with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House. A date for the meeting has not been set, but Trump said it would take place in Hungary’s capital, Budapest, and suggested it could happen…