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Rapist serving life may face more assault charges - Published A convicted serial rapist described by police as "one of the most prolific predators" in the UK could face further charges after fresh allegations involving seven more women were passed to prosecutors. Chinese national

* Rising oil prices keep pressure on global inflationary pressures * Traders leaning toward Sept Fed hike, much riding on U.S. inflation data this week * Yen extends climb, helped by hawkish BOJ bets By Rae Wee SINGAPORE, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The dollar was on shaky ground on Monda

Drug rape killer should never have been freed, says victim - Published A man who drugged multiple women over a 40-year period and eventually killed his partner should never have been released from prison, according to one of his victims. Richard Scatchard was jailed twice but rel

Buy or sell stocks: The Indian stock market ended the week on a cautious note, extending its recent correction as elevated crude oil prices, renewed geopolitical tensions and uncertainty surrounding the global interest-rate trajectory continued to dampen investor sentiment. Altho

AI infrastructure and semiconductor supply chains led reader interest this week, from Taiwan's manufacturing recovery and Nexperia's legal battle to Sandisk's HBF, Micron's HBM expansion, and Marvell's silicon photonics roadmap. Samsung also refreshed its smartphone lineup with t

The Nifty 50 extended its decline into a fourth straight week and ended below the previous week’s low. Trading activity also picked up, with the index recording its highest volume in five weeks. After a period of relatively muted volumes, the rise in activity alongside the declin

Stock market recap: Benchmark indices recovered on Friday, snapping a four-day losing streak as gains in metal, private banking and oil and gas stocks, along with a firm trend in global markets, lifted investor sentiment. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 362.57 points, or 0.48%, t

Small cap stocks used to fall by around 40-45% during corrections in the pre-covid period. However, post-covid, the average decline has been closer to 25%, said Samit Vartak, founder and chief investment officer of SageOne Investment Managers. Simultaneously, earnings growth has

Zerodha does not want to go public itself. But it wants to be involved in almost everything that happens when another company does. “To run a brokerage firm is to live with contradictions,” Zerodha cofounder Nithin Kamath had written on Substack last month. “These contradictions

Stock market recap: Indian equity benchmarks ended higher on Friday, though gains were trimmed from the day's highs as the session progressed. Nifty 50 rose 24.25 points, or 0.10%, to close at 23,897.70, while Sensex gained a firmer 362.57 points, or 0.48%, to settle at 76,515.43

(Bloomberg) -- Chicago wheat futures extended losses on Friday, on track for a weekly decline, as traders weighed the outlook for grain shipments from the Black Sea region.Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said his nation and Ukraine maintain contacts, even as he gave

'Losing battle to halt Russia's 'hybrid' war' and 'Oh chute!' - Published The Daily Telegraph reports that the British Chambers of Commerce has called for the pension triple lock to be scrapped, external in a bid to help, what the paper refers to as, Britain's "ailing economy". T

Austria's Islamic headscarf ban in force as under-14s go back to school - Published As the new school year begins in Austria, a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14 has gone into force. The law forbids "traditional Muslim" head coverings, such as hijabs or burkas

The stock market regulator may look to bring back the old mechanism to settle derivative contracts on expiry days, two people aware of the discussions said, in a partial revision to the closing auction session (CAS) introduced a month ago. The goal is to smooth out last-minute sw

(Bloomberg) -- Gold held a decline, after stronger-than-expected US payrolls data raised the prospects for an interest-rate hike as early as next week.Bullion was little changed near $4,430 an ounce, after falling 1% in the previous session. US job growth surged in August and the

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India's technology sector is gaining momentum across semiconductors, connectivity, AI payments, PCs, tablets and refurbished smartphones, as policy support and local manufacturing attract investment. However, supply-chain diversification, margin pressure, cautious demand and VinF

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The Seattle Times and Newsday are just the latest plaintiffs to take OpenAI to court, alleging copyright infringement. The two outlets say the company used their journalism as training data for its AI models without permission and often reproduces passages from their reporting in

The £70 refund letter that isn't a scam - Published You may be among the one million people, mostly women, who will receive letters explaining how you are eligible for top-up pension payments - and it's not a scam. Those entitled are low earners who have missed out on the money b

The volunteers risking their lives to defuse Indonesia's wildfire 'carbon bombs' - Published The sky grows heavy in Borneo, though not with rain. The air, amber-hued and treacle-thick, is smudged under a blanket of smog that has spilled across international borders – to Singapore

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Women accounted for 98% of the 162,000 jobs the US added in August, an unprecedented figure that could point to broader labor market shifts. The figure reflects growth in health and caregiving, but also in local government and education, which “roared back to life,” CNBC noted. B

A dossier made public Saturday shed light on allegations that Sudan’s military developed and used chemical weapons in the country’s devastating civil war. Documents, videos, and text messages reported by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and provided by Middle Eastern s

A swarm of OpenAI agents hacked a German website this spring, Reuters reported, in the latest incident of advanced AI violating laws and norms. Already grappling with the fallout of the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI reportedly declined to disclose the May event, raising new quest

Germany’s nationalist AfD won a landslide victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, potentially making it the first far-right party to gain power since the end of World War II. The record result came largely at the expense of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU, possib

US envoys held talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday after meeting Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow, though analysts cast doubt on a reinvigorated peace initiative that appeared to offer little movement. Putin told Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner t

The US and Iran traded strikes on oil tankers over the weekend, intensifying pressure on energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz. As Washington steps up its campaign to obstruct Tehran’s oil exports, the US struck Iranian tankers Saturday, with Iran hitting back by targeting US

BBC News presenter reveals she has blood cancer - Published BBC News presenter Maryam Moshiri has revealed she is living with blood cancer. Moshiri, who joined the BBC in 2003 and is one of the news channel's best-known anchors, told the BBC she wanted to share her diagnosis to r