CEO Larry Fink said the U.S. will remain the top investment destination as money flows back up into American assets amid the AI surge and the economy remaining resilient.

Indians can travel to more visa-free destinations than a decade ago, but India's passport ranking has declined.

Whichever way you cut it, the number of US banks with non-bank exposure exceeding their tier one capital — a regulated buffer if you like — amounts to half of the total assets in the IMF sample (not all banks disclose this information). It’s a similar story in Europe too.

Despite this danger, superintelligence remains the explicit goal of leading AI companies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta, xAI, DeepSeek. And given the skyrocketing valuation of these companies, they are not about to stop by themselves.

North America’s two dominant oil companies are carving divergent paths as the global crude market staggers toward what’s widely expected to be a hefty supply glut.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with prime ministers from Canada, Thailand and Japan on the sidelines of the 32nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, the Xinhua News Agency reported.

The latest iPhones have seen "a tremendous response" across the globe, said Apple boss Tim Cook as the tech giant released its latest financial results. The firm unveiled its thinnest iPhone, the Air, in September, along with upgraded iPhone 17 models, proving a bumper crop for the firm.

The U.S. Federal Reserve has moved back into line with other major rate setters after it cut rates by a quarter point on Wednesday but pushed back against market bets that it would keep going as the Washington shutdown fogs up its forecasting lens.

Netflix's Indonesian zombie horror film 'The Elixir' has surged to the top of the streamer's worldwide rankings for non-English language titles.

Spain and France justify enshrining the right to abortion in their Constitutions as a safeguard against a ‘reactionary’ wave that could roll back achievements