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Widespread fear has been building that an ancient Biblical event where countless Christians disappear from Earth is just hours away. Believers on social media platforms like TikTok have reached the point of hysteria over this prophecy, expressing their excitement for the end of days and even offering tips on how to handle being lifted into the sky to meet their maker.

Exxon Mobil authorized a $6.8 billion expansion offshore of sparsely populated Guyana,it announced Sept. 22. The project is its seventh in just a decade within the massive South American oil development. The new project, named Hammerhead, is Exxon's first with archrival Chevron as its largest partner in Guyana after Chevron in July closed on its $53 billion acquisition of Hess.

Javier Milei's unconditional support for Donald Trump is beginning to bear fruit. At a time when the Argentine president is going through his weakest moment politically and his economic plan is faltering, the Republican administration of the United States announced that it is willing to do whatever is necessary within its mandate to support Argentina. This support, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent explained, could take the form of a currency swap, the purchase of foreign currency, or the purchase of Argentine debt denominated in dollars.

Hurricane Gabrielle formed Sunday in the open Atlantic south-east of Bermuda while Tropical Storm Narda emerged well off southern Mexico's Pacific coast. The Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Gabrielle became a category 1 hurricane after its top sustained winds rose to 75mph (120 km/h). Gabrielle was centered about 320 miles (515km) south-east of Bermuda and was moving to the north-north-west at 10mph.

The logic then follows that the CCP would also implement similar controls over the U.S. version of the app, and there's long been speculation that Chinese officials could use this power to seed censoring anti-China narratives.

Whilst gold prices have many drivers, one is the perception that it operates as a haven that investors buy in times of fear. After all, it doesn't pay a dividend or a coupon, and over the very long term, it's struggled to compete with other asset returns. This September, gold prices exceeded their previous inflation-adjusted peak from January 1980. That was a time when the US was heading into recession, driven by a huge monetary tightening by the Fed under Paul Volcker, aiming to get inflation down. So historically, high gold prices haven't exactly been associated with rampant optimism," Allen told clients in a note this morning.

Arab and Muslim leaders are to meet Donald Trump in New York to discuss their plan for a UN-mandated international stabilisation force in Gaza after France joined the UK, Canada and Australia in recognising Palestine as a state. Israel has warned that it might respond to the recognition of Palestine by annexing the West Bank, citing claims from Hamas that recognition by allies of Israel was a victory for the terror group.

Life in parts of the Philippines was disrupted on Monday as Typhoon Ragasa's landing forced authorities to suspended work and families took shelter in evacuation centers. The storm brushed Babuyan Island and made landfall over Calayan Island. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the disaster response agency on full alert and called for the mobilization of all government agencies as Ragasa threatened the country's north.

"I feel fantastic," Leo Neugebauer told the crowd over the PA system in the National Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday. Just moments earlier, the German decathlete had dragged himself over the finish line in the final event of the decathlon, the 1,500 meters. He staggered through the final few meters before collapsing to the ground as the new world decathlon champion. Neugebauer was so exhausted that he briefly accepted the offer of taking a seat in a wheelchair. However, he soon stood up again taking to the podium to receive the gold medal, fulfilling a long-held dream.

A sold-out 82,000 record crowd for a standalone women's rugby fixture, millions more watching on television, a nation entranced. Finally the vision will become reality this Saturday with just one big question left: can England also deliver the ultimate fairytale finish? It promises to be as much a psychological as a physical challenge, with hype levels about to be ramped up to 11. Appropriately given England's forward strength, Battersea power station will host a fan zone for those without tickets.

U.S. financial markets rallied this week as the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates for the first time since December 2024, cutting by a quarter of a percentage point. The move had been widely anticipated, but it reassured investors that the central bank is ready to support growth as the labour market shows signs of softening. The Fed's updated projections suggest that policymakers expect further cuts of up to half a percentage point

In an expansion of its sanctions targeting Brazil's judiciary, the administration of US President Donald Trump on Monday imposed sanctions on Viviane Barci de Moraes, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. list of 3 itemsend of list It also imposed sanctions on the Lex Instituto de Estudos Juridicos, a financial entity controlled by Barci de Moraes and other family members that the US government believes could serve as a vehicle to evade pre-existing sanctions, a Treasury Department notice said.

The latest break between the two foremost military and political leaders risks igniting civil war again for the embattled nation. South Sudan has started holding a trial for First Vice President Riek Machar, who has been sacked by his decades-long rival, President Salva Kiir, and charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity in relation to rebellion and an attack by a militia linked with ethnic tensions.

The peremptory order caught him out of the house. When he returned, his family and most of his neighbors had already fled. He hurried to pack two changes of clothes in the first bag he found and, before setting off on his motorcycle, he tied a white cloth to a long pole: It was a flag as a sign of peace, to avoid any attacks on the three-hour journey, says the social leader, who requests anonymity.

build a post-training framework that re-worked DeepSeek's model so it achieved "nearly 100 percent success rate against 14 common malicious threats, including toxic and harmful speech, politically sensitive content, and incitement to illegal behavior." The re-trained model, dubbed DeepSeek-R1-Safe, is also more resistant to jailbreaking. The University achieved those results with just a one percent performance hit compared to DeepSeek-R1.

Cryptocurrency traders saw more than $1.5 billion in bullish wagers liquidated on Monday, triggering a sharp selloff that hit smaller tokens hardest. Ether slumped as much as 9% to $4,075 as nearly half a billion dollars of leveraged long positions in the second-largest token were liquidated, according to data from Coinglass. Bitcoin declined 3% to $111,998 at one point. Coins like Solana, Algorand and Avalanche also slipped.

Dominican Republic forces have seized hundreds of cocaine packages from a speedboat that was targeted and destroyed by the United States Navy, officials said, amid escalating anti-drug operations in the Caribbean. In a post on X on Sunday, the Dominican Republic's National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), the country's drug enforcement agency, said it carried out a joint Dominican-US operation in which they said they recovered 1,000kg (2,200lb) of cocaine in 377 packages.

The newest edition of the Ryder Cup will find your TV screen Friday through Monday. It will be contested on Long Island on a torture-chamber called Bethpage Black. They played the U.S. Open there in 2009 and it rained so hard and so often that there were rumors Noah was getting another Ark ready. Lucas Glover didn't win that one. He survived it.

The children were sleeping when death came from the air. A military warplane dropped two 500lb (230kg) bombs on their boarding school, witnesses said. Imagine, if you can, the carnage and the horror. At least 18 died. Others suffered life-changing injuries. The ruling regime claims to be fighting terrorists. Yet more often than not, it is defenceless, blameless civilians who are killed, maimed and displaced. No, this isn't Gaza. It isn't Ukraine. It's Myanmar, where appalling atrocities, including crimes against humanity, often go unreported.

The White House has already sent invitations for the meeting, which is expected to take place on Tuesday at 2:30pm ET. The leaders of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey have been invited to participate, according to the Arab officials. The White House wants the invited Arab and Muslim countries to take part in a post-war plan for Gaza and even send troops for a stabilization force that will replace the Israeli military, sources say.