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Environment · 14 October 2026
The 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards honoured two starkly different stories – a cunning urban coyote and an elephant carrying its dead calf. Both images earned top honors, underscoring the competition’s…
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Finance · 14 October 2026
The IMF’s latest World Economic Outlook, released on Tuesday, says global economic resilience is “under strain” and calls for urgent policy choices. The article pokes fun at whether Prime Minister Anthony Albanese�…
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Business · 14 October 2026
Federal regulators fined Bank of America $1.8 billion, saying the bank waved through suspicious transactions without proper care, highlighting serious lapses in its anti‑money‑laundering controls.
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Business · 14 October 2026
Bumble has been acquired by an investment firm for $1.3 bn, with the buyer framing the purchase as a gamble on the future of humanity, weeks after the app dropped its women‑first chat rule.
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Entertainment · 13 October 2026
Skydance and Spain’s biggest pay‑TV operator Movistar Plus have deepened their alliance, adding co‑production of original series under a joint label while keeping HBO Max on the platform and adding select Skydance…
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World · 13 October 2026
A cyber‑attack on Monday night pushed refrigeration units in hundreds of French supermarkets to as high as 50 °C, sparking fires and spoiling fresh and frozen goods. Intermarché La Haye saw its fridges hit 27�…
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Business · 13 October 2026
European buyers are increasingly snapping up low‑cost Chinese vehicles while policymakers scramble to slow the influx.
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Business · 13 October 2026
Social Security’s trust fund is projected to run short by 2032, meaning benefits will be trimmed. The cuts won’t be uniform – they’ll depend on how much retirees earned before they stopped working, as illustrated…
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Business · 12 October 2026
A plan to import diesel from Russia announced weeks before the U.S. midterm elections has sparked criticism from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers.
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