For five years, the interest rate on Richard Merrett's mortgage was locked at 1.14%, but with that ultra-cheap deal due to expire in early
October 01, 2026The US Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to hear a dispute over a policy by President Donald Trump's administration that subjects millions of immigrants who
October 01, 2026Global bond markets are still functioning in an orderly fashion, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, following the recent sharp rise in yields that has driven
October 01, 2026Man accused of neglecting, starving dog, sheriff's office says
October 01, 2026Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the co-pilot who tried to crash a passenger jet on its way to Israel had undergone Islamist radicalization
October 01, 2026Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan have killed 10 civilians, mostly children, Afghanistan and the United Nations say
October 01, 2026Both parents of toddler found with loaded handgun at Canton daycare to be arraigned
October 01, 2026Elderly woman hit by stray gunfire during shooting in North Philadelphia, police say
October 01, 2026Representatives of the Syrian government and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have held face-to-face talks in Turkey to try to calm
October 01, 2026Factory growth in the euro zone continued its upward march in September, hitting its fastest rate in more than four years, as resilient demand drove new
October 01, 2026British annual house prices rose at their weakest annual pace since December 2025 last month and unexpectedly fell 0.2% on the month, in a sign that higher borrowing costs
October 01, 2026Japanese manufacturers' confidence hit an eight-year high over July-September but non-manufacturers' mood soured, a central bank survey
October 01, 2026Iranian officials say they have received an official U.S. response to Tehran's own proposal to end the seven-month war, which U.S. President Donald Trump rejected days earlier
September 30, 2026A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked an unprecedented $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump has imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign
October 01, 2026A bill aiming to permanently ban the sale of Chinese vehicles in the United States stalled in the Senate as lawmakers headed for the exits until after the November midterm elections
October 01, 2026More than 270 Catholic clerics sexually abused nearly 1,000 children across three Massachusetts dioceses over decades, according to an investigative report
September 30, 2026The White House is considering regulatory relief that would expand sales of red-dyed diesel, a tax-exempt fuel typically used for farming, as prices surge
October 01, 2026Human rights advocates have asked a United Nations panel to intervene in a new U.S. government practice that they say amounts to the “enforced disappearance” of noncitizens
October 01, 2026The U.S. military has completed the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq, ending a 12-year mission against the Islamic State group
September 30, 2026Senate Democrats block bill to restrict lawmaker stock trading and impose new voter ID requirements
September 30, 2026Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak is a public face of the 2023 Champions League winner that is now embroiled in one of soccer’s biggest scandals
September 30, 2026Heartbreaking video shows deputies honor K9 Dundee who died in the line of duty
September 30, 2026British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says the U.K. has “strong indications” that Iran played a part in an incident involving five men arrested near a U.S.-run air base in England
September 30, 2026Spain's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday it had alerted prosecutors to an Amnesty International report alleging the military tortured or mistreated migrants in Ceuta, and
September 30, 2026The dollar was flat against major currencies on Wednesday following a smaller-than-expected increase in US inflation, which reduced market bets on an
September 30, 2026The US Court of International Trade on Wednesday scrutinized the legal and factual underpinnings of President Donald Trump's latest global tariffs,
September 30, 2026Stock market investors might have been expected to run for the hills in the face of an extraordinary surge in global borrowing costs, currency interventions,
September 30, 2026Caterpillar said on Wednesday it plans to invest about $1 billion in North Carolina to expand manufacturing capacity for its compact equipment business amid rising customer demand.
September 30, 2026Russia pressed its missile and drone attacks on Ukraine, killing seven people, including a child
September 30, 2026Analysts have raised their 2026 oil price forecasts with benchmark Brent crude expected to average nearly $90 a
September 30, 2026European shares suffered their first monthly fall in six on Wednesday, as a surge in global bond yields reduced the appeal of riskier assets,
September 30, 2026Italian EU-harmonised consumer prices (HICP) rose 2.0% in September from the month before, with the annual inflation rate jumping to 4.1%, from August's 3.2% amid sky-high
September 30, 2026Italian business and consumer confidence fell in September, data showed on Wednesday, in a negative sign for the prospects of the euro zone's third largest economy.
September 30, 2026A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Bond markets are staring at a brutal quarter as inflation risks due to the seven-month-long war in the Middle East heighten
September 30, 2026International cooperation among banking supervisors is becoming more difficult just as financial risks grow more interconnected, the chair of the global
September 30, 2026Antisemitism at British universities is on the rise, with incidents up nearly 80% from before the October 2023 attacks by Hamas on Israel, a report by a charity which
September 30, 2026US Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bid to require President Donald Trump's administration to report to Congress on increasing violence in
September 30, 2026European countries should have shown more solidarity and offered more support to Spain after the mass arrival in Ceuta of tens of thousands of migrants, Spanish King Felipe
September 30, 2026Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney accused the U.S. owner of steelmaker Stelco of betraying Canadian workers after it announced layoffs it attributed in part to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs — tariffs Cleveland-Cliffs’ chief executive has publicly championed
September 30, 2026A US Justice Department lawyer asked an appeals court on Tuesday to terminate a judge's inquiry into whether Trump administration officials willfully
September 30, 2026King Mohammed VI appointed Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri on Tuesday as Morocco's first woman prime minister after her liberal-centrist party came out on top
September 29, 2026An appeals court is weighing whether a judge can continue investigating whether the Trump administration illegally flouted an order blocking the deportation of planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador
September 30, 2026Islamic Jihad and Hamas have agreed to form an electoral coalition with a former top Fatah official who is close to the United Arab Emirates
September 29, 2026Grandfather shares story of survival after gunman opens fire on home, injures family dog
September 30, 2026More than 100 Israeli settlers have attacked a village in the occupied West Bank, preventing a Palestinian family from returning
September 29, 2026Video: Man in wheelchair rescued after falling into marina
September 29, 2026Iran's leaders may radiate bullishness in their war with the United States, but life is becoming ever tougher for ordinary citizens unable
September 29, 2026U.S.-Canada relations, already tense, are likely to deteriorate further after the United States went ahead early Tuesday with a decision to ban nearly $1 billion worth of Canadian imports, including alcoholic beverages, dairy products and motorcycles
September 29, 2026Iran's Revolutionary Guards, whose power and influence have expanded since the US and Israel pursued war against Iran, have appealed to US
September 29, 2026US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep
September 29, 2026A US auto regulator said on Tuesday it had closed a defect petition covering 806,963 Honda Odyssey vehicles in the United States over allegations of inadvertent airbag deployments
September 29, 2026Rubio says ‘foreign actor’ involved in alleged terror plot targeting British base used by US
September 28, 2026They have become a familiar sight on Islamabad’s roads whenever a protest is expected: shipping containers lined along streets or placed across key routes to restrict demonstrators’ movement and keep them from reaching sensitive areas of Pakistan’s capital
September 29, 2026A lawyer who backed President Donald Trump’s false 2020 election claims has resigned from a Justice Department investigation into whether former government officials conspired against the Republican president, according to a person familiar with the matter
September 29, 2026Parents arrested after toddler found wandering Florida road, deputies say
September 29, 2026An Italian court on Monday convicted three Egyptian security officials of involvement in the 2016 kidnapping of student Giulio Regeni, whose tortured body was found days
September 28, 2026Tether's USDT stablecoin has become a "significant financial lifeline" for Iran and a tool for funding proxy organizations, including Hezbollah, according to a
September 28, 2026Oil prices rose on Monday, but eased off session highs on expectations that Qatari mediators would hold talks with the US and Iran to try to find a
September 28, 2026US President Donald Trump's administration was set to grant a limited waiver to its Iran sanctions program on Monday to allow for flights
September 28, 2026The owners of Camp Mystic have proposed selling off the riverfront property in bankruptcy
September 28, 2026Denmark is confident that NATO will maintain a heightened presence in Greenland and the broader Arctic region over the long term following a security
September 28, 2026Iran's embassy in London on Monday rejected what it described as "unfounded and malicious speculations" linking Tehran to five British nationals who were arrested over the
September 28, 2026French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that Europe was built on a "Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian foundation", invoking the continent's religious
September 28, 2026Spain's representative in its North African enclave of Ceuta resigned on Monday, citing personal reasons after weeks of intense scrutiny over the handling of a border rush
September 28, 2026Lebanon hopes for a new staff-level agreement with the
September 28, 2026A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. It's been a bit of a random walk in Asia so far, with oil and yields up, stocks mixed, gold down and the dollar flat.
September 28, 2026A leader of a secretive North Carolina religious group has been sentenced to two years of probation in a plea deal that dropped a felony kidnapping charge
September 28, 2026Crude oil exports from key Middle East producers rebounded in September to 16.328 million barrels per day (bpd), the highest since the US-Israeli war on
September 28, 2026Russian drones set ablaze a market outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Sunday, killing two people, while three others died in strikes by Moscow's forces in different regions and
September 27, 2026British police arrested five men on suspicion of explosives and terrorism offences on Sunday near an air base that has been used by the US to
September 27, 2026Floodwaters receded in many parts of the Thai capital Bangkok on Sunday after torrential rain eased, even as residents in
September 27, 2026A deputy chair of President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party stepped down after an opposition politician accused her of making a large profit on shares just before a funds
September 27, 2026The Labour Party has opened its annual conference, the first with Prime Minister Andy Burnham in charge
September 27, 2026Pressure to boycott upcoming Nations League games against Israel over that country’s actions in Gaza has taken its toll on the Ireland team with players ultimately putting their participation to a vote
September 26, 2026Thousands in Nepal have lost their homes and livelihoods after last month's devastating floods
September 26, 2026South Africa remains open to talks with the US on areas of dispute, including rules for foreign investors on Black employment and ownership, although
September 26, 2026US television networks resumed coverage of President Donald Trump’s White House events on Friday, providing the first live pool access for Chinese
September 25, 2026A new report on Charlie Kirk’s assassination last year says his Turning Point USA organization insisted he speak outdoors despite security concerns from officials at the university where he was killed
September 26, 2026US President Donald Trump has rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt regional fighting
September 25, 2026President Donald Trump has vowed to campaign in 35 of the most competitive battleground races in the final sprint to November’s midterm elections
September 26, 2026The military chiefs of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey discussed enhancing intelligence sharing, military coordination and capability integration at a meeting in Riyadh on Friday
September 26, 2026The Supreme Court is allowing states to resume using a controversial federal tool to check voter eligibility before the November elections
September 25, 2026Pakistan says its forces have killed at least 13 Afghan Taliban personnel in overnight fighting along the countries’ southwestern border, a claim Afghanistan denies
September 25, 2026Driver accused of hitting, killing MaineDOT workers on I95 arrested, charged
September 25, 2026Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia is threatening the fragile peace that ended the Tigray war
September 25, 2026Wall Street's main stock indexes were steady at open on Friday as AI optimism offset worries regarding high oil prices and rising Treasury yields, while investors monitored chances
September 25, 2026There has been a sharp increase in the number of people fleeing from Sudan to Chad to escape fighting and dire conditions, and aid funding is failing
September 25, 2026Residents of northern Ethiopia's largest city are living in fear as renewed fighting has erupted between federal troops and rebels
September 25, 2026Finland and Sweden said on Friday they had scrambled fighter jets to intercept and identify Russian military aircraft in international airspace over the Gulf of Finland,
September 25, 2026The United Nations children's agency reported on Friday a rise in acute malnutrition among children in Yemen, including in the most severe cases, as
September 25, 2026Washington's talk of a possible ban on diesel exports is widening the gap between US crude oil futures and the global Brent benchmark, a signal that markets expect US
September 25, 2026The U.S.-created Board of Peace has said the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has no place in Gaza
September 25, 2026Trump wants to take a page out of the Biden energy playbook
September 25, 2026The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) accused China on Friday of obstructing a resupply mission to troops on board a grounded World War Two-era warship in the South China Sea,
September 25, 2026"When are you coming?"
September 25, 2026The global bond rout continued on Thursday, pushing many key yields around the world to new multi-decade highs.
September 25, 2026Israel player Sayed Abu Farchi has been sent off for his goal-scoring celebration after equalizing against Austria in the Nations League
September 25, 2026Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are not only false but “the biggest lie of the century" — so says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
September 24, 2026Dozens of delegates at the United Nations walked out of the hall when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began his speech to the General Assembly meeting of
September 25, 2026The Committee to Protect Journalists says that 19 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire who it had previously identified as journalists or media workers were actually militants or participants in combat
September 24, 2026The S&P 500 ended marginally down on Thursday, with Microsoft dipping and Meta Platforms rising, as uncertainty about the Middle East lifted
September 24, 2026The nation’s cybersecurity agency has released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms
September 24, 2026Wall Street's main stock indexes opened lower on Thursday as simmering Middle East tensions lifted oil prices and Treasury yields, while investors also exercised caution ahead of a
September 24, 2026Iranian airlines were barred from neighbouring countries including the UAE and Oman on Thursday in response
September 24, 2026US long-dated Treasury yields rose to their highest in more than 20 years on Thursday, extending a
September 24, 2026Scissor lift collapses, traps two Walmart workers in Lancaster County, dispatchers say
September 24, 2026Inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to a December G20 meeting in Miami, Florida may encourage Moscow to continue its aggression towards Ukraine, Polish Prime
September 24, 2026Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have intensified deadly drone attacks in government-held towns in the frontline state of North
September 24, 2026France defended its decision to let Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plane cross its airspace en route to the United Nations on Thursday, saying international law
September 24, 2026The governor of Russia's southern Krasnodar region, a major agricultural producer, has declared a state of emergency over Ukrainian drone attacks that have inhibited the
September 24, 2026The White House has pushed federal agencies to accelerate their review of at least 47 state voter rolls obtained by the Department of Homeland
September 24, 2026Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy that attacks by Russia and Ukraine on commercial vessels in the Black Sea were inexplicable
September 24, 2026Southwestern Mexico is bracing for heavy rain and mudslides after Polo became a major hurricane in the Pacific
September 23, 2026Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Wednesday he discussed ways of keeping tension in check at a meeting with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqchi.
September 24, 2026Taiwan has upgraded its maritime patrol capacity around the Pratas Islands in the disputed South China Sea, including regularly sending larger ships there, the government
September 24, 2026The son of Israel’s ambassador to the United States has been gravely injured in a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank
September 24, 2026Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging world’s leaders to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts
September 24, 2026The head of the US Federal Aviation Administration said a series of error messages in a telecommunications circuit prompted the agency on Sunday to
September 24, 2026Diesel prices are hitting record highs as the Middle East conflict intensifies, affecting American farmers and rural residents
September 24, 2026The FBI says it is investigating a criminal hacking group’s claims that it had stolen “very sensitive data” belonging to thousands of agents and applicants and that it had compromised the bureau’s jobs website
September 23, 2026Hours after renewed fighting in Tigray shattered a four-year-old peace deal, Ethiopian President Taye Atske-Selassie Amde told the UN his
September 24, 2026Turkey and Iraq agreed on Wednesday for Turkish forces to hand over a military camp in northern Iraq to the Iraqi government gradually, they said after talks in New York,
September 24, 2026US President Donald Trump and Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez discussed restructuring the South American nation's
September 23, 2026Russia's drone attacks on Wednesday disrupted internet services to about 100,000 households in Ukraine's capital Kyiv and its nearby region, the digital ministry said.
September 24, 2026France on Wednesday welcomed Azerbaijan's pardon of French citizen Martin Ryan as a humanitarian gesture that would pave the way for improved
September 23, 2026The Hungarian central bank's move to lower its inflation target has sent a fresh signal to investors that the new government in
September 23, 2026The European Union faced a growing backlash on Wednesday for lifting sanctions on two Russian billionaires, with some of its
September 23, 2026Forces from the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray launched a major offensive against the federal government on Wednesday, a senior Ethiopian official said, shattering a four-year
September 23, 2026Ole Miss students react to deaths of two classmates
September 23, 2026Police and local authorities in South Africa say three gunmen opened fire at a house party and killed 11 people including a pregnant woman
September 23, 2026A year ago, Wael Naouar stood on the deck of a boat at Sidi Bou Said port on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast, waving to thousands of supporters before setting off to try to
September 23, 2026Wall Street's main indexes opened lower on Wednesday, pressured by rising crude prices and government bond yields as investors awaited developments from negotiations to end the
September 23, 2026Israeli airstrikes killed at least four Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, local health officials said, and Israel said one of the attacks targeted a Hamas finance
September 23, 2026A group of US Senate Democrats will introduce legislation on Wednesday to sanction individuals or groups that facilitate Israel's "E1 project," a
September 23, 2026Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev pardoned a French national jailed for espionage on Wednesday, a day after the EU lifted sanctions on Russian billionaire
September 23, 2026Purges of military leaders may have dented China's war-fighting readiness, but are likely to have strengthened President Xi
September 23, 2026The Philippine Senate, sitting as an impeachment court, on Wednesday lowered the number of votes needed to convict Vice President Sara
September 23, 2026Taiwan will continue to keep in close touch with the US to promote the implementation of arms sales according to plan, a
September 23, 2026US President Donald Trump warned on Tuesday that he could annihilate Iran if there is no deal to end the war,
September 22, 2026US President Donald Trump met Venezuela's interim President Delcy Rodriguez late on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly,
September 23, 2026President Donald Trump says U.S. and Iranian officials met for about three hours Tuesday, shortly after he threatened in his address to the U.N. General Assembly that he may “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal isn’t reached soon to end the nearly seven-month war
September 22, 2026The Trump administration plans to set a refugee admissions ceiling of 17,500 over the next 12 months consisting "primarily" of South Africans from the country's
September 23, 2026Court documents show that Camp Mystic faces a criminal investigation that could include manslaughter or negligent homicide charges in the deaths of 27 girls amid devastating flooding in Texas last year
September 23, 2026A federal judge has ordered Texas to install air conditioning in all of its prisons by the end of 2029, saying that inmates in lockups without it are being given punishments that violate their constitutional rights
September 23, 2026Canada is giving C$100 million in international assistance for Palestine, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday.
September 23, 2026The United States is withholding a visa for Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ahead of his
September 22, 2026The United States, Denmark and Greenland have signed an agreement to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic
September 22, 2026Authorities say a 29-year-old man suspected of opening fire on a police officer stationed outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur has died from his injuries
September 23, 2026Suspect in Canada’s Yom Kippur shooting has died, authorities say
September 21, 2026Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi met with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in a meeting during which Iran's
September 23, 2026Spain clears way for US extradition case against millionaire activist
September 23, 2026Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan condemned on Tuesday what he called "global gender-neutralisation policies", saying they had turned into a campaign targeting families and
September 22, 2026Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday the U.N had become unable to fulfill its duty of preserving peace and called for reform
September 22, 2026The foreign ministers of Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan said in a joint statement on Tuesday that they affirmed Riyadh's right to defend itself in line with
September 22, 2026President Donald Trump said Cuba was a failed state and freedom would be coming to the island nation in a UN address on Tuesday that increased tensions with the
September 22, 2026US President Donald Trump said that Iran and the United States had been talking on Tuesday, and he thinks the two countries will reach a deal at some point.
September 22, 2026A federal immigration agent shot and injured a man on Sunday in Austin, Texas, according to city officials. The man was taken to the hospital and was described as being in stable but serious condition, according to the city’s EMS chief.
September 21, 2026Witness describes crash that killed woman, unborn child in Independence
September 23, 2026European Union envoys agreed to drop two high-profile billionaires, Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, from the EU's Russian sanctions list in a
September 22, 2026Nigerian prison guards sprayed an unidentified substance into a crowded cell where dozens of detainees died and kept the doors
September 22, 2026Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he would use his speech at the United Nations this week to defend Israel's military actions against the
September 22, 2026The Sudanese pound has haemorrhaged nearly half its value in army-held territory since the start of the
September 22, 2026France has started drafting a UN Security Council resolution in coordination with the United States on setting up an international mission to restore
September 22, 2026Father shuttles between 2 hospitals as wife and baby face harrowing diagnoses
September 22, 2026Tensions are high ahead of an international soccer doubleheader between Ireland and Israel
September 22, 2026An attacker opened fire near a high school in western Turkey, wounding at least 11 people
September 22, 2026The US auto safety regulator on Tuesday closed an investigation into rear-view camera failures in 129,092 Honda Ridgeline pickup trucks, recalled in 2022, without further action.
September 22, 2026One person was killed and four wounded after Ukrainian drones hit civilian areas in Russia's Samara region overnight, the local governor said on Telegram on Tuesday.
September 22, 2026The European Union and the Philippines have reached substantial agreement on a new free trade deal
September 22, 2026The attorney for a Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration officer in Texas says he is back in the hospital after being held at a detention center with a bullet still lodged in his back
September 21, 2026Glitzy runway shows by the world’s biggest fashion brands in Milan and Paris mask a worrying picture for luxury executives behind the
September 22, 2026The European Union's naval mission to protect shipping in the Red Sea would need to boost its numbers to more than 10 warships, its foreign policy chief
September 22, 2026Mexico responded to a Spanish woman’s murder with urgency. Some say it’s not doing enough for female victims at home
September 22, 2026CNN’s Paula Hancocks reports on the latest Houthi attacks targeting Saudi Arabia, as well as a fire at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. The cause of the airport fire remains unclear, and Saudi authorities have not yet responded to CNN’s request for comment.
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