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Spanish government says sorry to people of Ceuta for migrant crisis - Published The Spanish government has apologised to the people of Ceuta for the migrant crisis that has affected the city for weeks and it has unveiled plans to overhaul the country's immigration laws. "I want t

* Iran sanctions expansion puts dollar access in focus * Bitcoin briefly tops $80,000 as debasement trade continues * Canada imposes retaliatory tariffs on about $20 billion of annual US imports (Updates to afternoon trading) By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The

Stability AI, the startup behind AI image generation model Stable Diffusion, has raised $76 million in Series B funding. The new haul brings the company’s fundraising total to $232 million. The company announced the round Tuesday, saying the new capital comes partly from a number

The overall economy continued to show resilience, backed by improved domestic demand, while the global economic outlook continues to be weighed by renewed escalation of West Asia conflicts and fresh tariffs imposed by the US. The country's monetary policymakers have particularly

Oil prices fell more than 3% on Tuesday as the U.S. pivots to economic sanctions rather than military strikes to pressure Iran. Brent futures, the international benchmark, dropped 3.9% to close at $88.58 per barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude lost 3.1% to settle at $82.36

A few weeks ago, when my fiance discovered that he had a custodial stock account he didn't know about, I let myself indulge in a familiar daydream. "What if there's money out there for me, too? What if, actually, I'm, like, rich and don't even know it?" Look, we've all thought ab

Fashionistas of a certain age no doubt remember the late designer Stephen Sprouse, who gave Blondie’s Debbie Harry her distinctive Bowery punk style. Sprouse’s first collections in the mid-1980s made a major splash, melding graffiti prints, a playful ’60s aesthetic, and bright Da

NVIDIA is on stage at Hot Chips 2026, walking through its BlueField-4 Processor, the fourth generation of its data center processing unit. I think we are getting more of the Grace with ConnectX-9 version, not the bigger Vera version, so that is neat. This is being done live, so p

Dolly Parton: A life in pictures - Published Dolly Parton, the country music superstar from the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most beloved entertainers in the world. Over a career spanning more than 60 years, she sold more than 100

Littler's Players Championship hopes dented - Published Luke Littler's hopes of qualifying for the Players Championship finals in November took a hit as he was defeated by Jermaine Wattimena in the quarter-finals of PC27 in Leicester. Littler, playing in his first Pro Tour event

Some people are cursed with motion sickness, which can make it impossible to read or use a phone in a moving vehicle without suffering waves of nausea. There’s a surprisingly simple trick that can make smartphones usable in such situations. Apple deployed it on the iPhone a coupl

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung makes LPDDR5X smart with logic unit in memory — LPDDR5X-PIM is 3.01x faster than LPDDR5X in AI inference with 8x the bandwidth Samsung has been working on PIM for years. Earlier this month, Samsung introduced the industry's first LPDDR5X-PIM memory, adding

President Donald Trump on Tuesday will test his endorsement power as South Carolina GOP Sen. Darline Graham squares off against Rep. Ralph Norman in a special Republican primary runoff election in her bid to replace her late brother Lindsey Graham for a full six-year Senate term.