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Australians will be scrambling to check their Lotto tickets on Tuesday evening as one incredibly lucky punter won $15 million in the Oz Lotto draw.The life-changing sum was won by just one division one player, hailing from outside of Western Australia.There were five winners in division two, who each won a tidy $48,254.95.WA punters finally got some luck in division three, with 11 winners picking up $4073.45 each.The winning numbers for draw #1678 were 5, 30, 36, 39, 25, 19, and 2.The supplementary numbers were 43, 13, and 40.Tuesday night’s win comes after a West Aussie player scooped up a…

MANILA: More than 17,000 American and Filipino military personnel will participate in one of their largest annual combat exercises in the Philippines that underscore the United States’ staunch commitment to Asia despite its preoccupation with the Middle East, a US military official said Tuesday (Apr 14).During the Apr 20 to May 8 manoeuvres, called the Balikatan, Japanese forces will fire a missile in a ship-sinking exercise in northwestern Philippine waters facing the disputed South China Sea. Japan’s defence chief has been invited to witness the live-fire drill, Philippine military officials said.The large-scale combat drills between the US and Philippines, which are…

The IEA’s oil ‘demand destruction’ report comes after its chief said unnamed countries are hoarding stocks.Published On 14 Apr 202614 Apr 2026The International Energy Agency (IEA) has sharply cut its forecasts for global oil supply ⁠and demand growth, saying both are expected to fall from last year’s levels as ⁠the United States-Israel war on Iran disrupts oil flows and weighs on the global economy.According to its report published on Tuesday, the IEA sees global oil demand falling ‌by 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) this year, compared with a projected year-on-year rise of 640,000 bpd in its previous monthly report.Recommended Stories…

BlackRock reported a better-than-expected first quarter on Tuesday, but the more revealing signal sat beneath the earnings beat.The world’s largest asset manager posted higher profit on strong exchange-traded fund inflows and a sharp jump in performance fees.Yet assets under management slipped to $13.89 trillion from the record $14.04 trillion reached at the end of 2025, a reminder that even BlackRock’s powerful fee machine still depends heavily on market levels and asset scale.The quarter was solid, but the deeper story was more complicated.Fee strength drove the beatOn the surface, the numbers were strong.BlackRock’s first-quarter net profit rose to $2.21 billion, or…

Author Ahmed Balaha Author Ahmed Balaha Part of the Team Since Aug 2025 About Author Ahmed Balaha is a journalist and copywriter based in Georgia with a growing focus on blockchain technology, DeFi, AI, privacy, digital assets, and fintech innovation. Share Last updated:  April 14, 2026 The Department of Justice has opened a formal compensation claims portal for victims of OneCoin, the $4 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded approximately 3.5 million investors across 175 countries between 2014 and 2019. More than $40 million in restitution, sourced from asset forfeiture proceedings that swept up proceeds tied to co-conspirators, including Konstantin Ignatov,…

Jamie Dimon, chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., during the America Business Forum in Miami, Florida, US, on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesJPMorgan Chase on Tuesday posted first quarter results that topped expectations on stronger-than-expected fixed income and investment banking revenue.Here’s what the company reported:Earnings: $5.94 a share vs. $5.45 LSEG estimate Revenue: $50.54 billion vs. $49.17 billion estimate The company said net income rose 13% to $16.49 billion, or $5.94 a share. Revenue rose 10% to $50.54 billion.The bank’s fixed income trading revenue rose 21% to $7.08 billion, or about…

Two women who have accused Rep. Eric Swalwell of misconduct told CBS News that, while they feel “vindicated” now that he has dropped his bid to become California’s next governor and will resign from his seat in Congress, there is still work to be done.”He was pushed into a corner, essentially, because they were planning to expel him … so i think he did that to save face a little,” Ally Sammarco, whose accusations were first detailed in a CNN report, told CBS News. “But I also felt very vindicated that he realized it was over for him.”Annika Albrecht, who is publicly…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The predawn Molotov cocktail attack on Sam Altman’s San Francisco home has signaled a volatile new era of anti-tech extremism, sparking fears among federal authorities that this could ignite a wave of copycat strikes against high-profile executives.San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that her office will aggressively pursue charges against suspect Daniel Moreno-Gama, citing a dangerous escalation in the debate surrounding artificial intelligence.”My office will prosecute this case to the fullest extent of the law,” Jenkins said. “This should also be a moment where our nation reflects on the often…

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is visiting Germany for talks about financial and military support as Ukraine clocks up battlefield successes against Russia.

BEIJING: The international rule of law must be upheld for peace and stability to prevail in the Middle East, China’s President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday (Apr 14), in a rebuke of the US-Israeli war on Iran.While Beijing has repeatedly criticised the US-Israeli campaign as illegal, Xi has made few public comments about the conflict. He will hold talks with US President Donald Trump in an expected meeting in Beijing next month.The rule of law cannot be “used when convenient and discarded when not”, Xi told Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the visiting crown prince of Abu…