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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The main reason I found Day of the Triffids terrifying as a boy was the realisation that I would have for sure been one of the first people to gawp skyward at the green meteor shower. The lights are so pretty! Oh, I can’t see.Exactly the same feeling overwhelmed me upon reading Ten Days That Shook the World at university. Goodness those Bolsheviks are making a racket outside, I would have mumbled. It’ll be fine. Just some kids having fun.Because usually everything…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is an FT contributing editorThis month the Federal Reserve decided it would cut its own workforce by a tenth over the next several years. The move has been reported as a way to find savings at the Fed before the so-called Department of Government Efficiency knocks on the door. That may be right, but the Fed has another problem it doesn’t like to talk about: it’s operating at a loss. On purpose.When a commercial bank lends you money, it’s adding…

Bryce Cotton has deleted his heartfelt social media farewell message for the Red Army from two months ago as the Wildcats legend hinted he was on the brink of giving the full story of why he left the club.

SEOUL: South Korea has voiced concerns to China over its establishment of a “no-sail zone” in a shared area of the Yellow Sea, Seoul’s foreign ministry said on Saturday (May 24). The US outlet Newsweek reported on Wednesday that China had barred ships from entering certain parts of the Yellow Sea, located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula. According to Newsweek, a regional branch of China’s Maritime Safety Administration declared the no-sail zone in parts of the sea’s Provisional Measures Zone (PMZ) – a shared area where the two countries’ exclusive economic zones overlap – until May 27. The…

Fake stories of a coup d’etat in the West African nation of Ivory Coast surfaced this week amid mounting tensions over the upcoming October general elections. Several accounts on social media sites, including Facebook and X, posted videos of huge crowds on streets with burning buildings, which they claimed were from the country’s commercial capital, Abidjan. However, no violence was reported by security forces or any other government authorities in the city this week. Abidjan residents also denied the claims on social media. On Thursday, the country’s National Agency for Information Systems Security of Ivory Coast (ANSSI) denied the rumours.…

The White House is trimming and restructuring the National Security Council, sources told CBS News on Friday — weeks after President Trump replaced his national security adviser and gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio the powerful post.Some NSC staff are moving elsewhere inside the administration, but not all, the sources said. Aides were informed of some of the changes in a meeting at the White House on Friday afternoon.Vice President JD Vance’s national security adviser Andy Baker is taking a top role in the restructured NSC as deputy national security adviser, as is White House deputy chief of staff Robert…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The New York Knicks have fallen to a place that no team in NBA history has ever overcome. After a historic collapse in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals to the Indiana Pacers, the Knicks let Game 2 slip through their fingers, in a 114-109 loss. No NBA team has ever lost the first two games at home and come back to win a series in the conference finals. Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton (0) shoots against New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (11) in the fourth quarter during game two of the…

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Check out the companies making headlines before the bell: Apple — The tech giant saw shares fall 3.5% in premarket trading after President Donald Trump said in a social media post that Apple will have to pay a tariff of 25% or more for iPhones made outside the U.S. Nuclear stocks — Stocks tied to nuclear energy rose as a group after Reuters reported , citing sources, that Trump will sign orders to boost nuclear power as soon as Friday. Shares of Oklo and NuScale rallied more than 8% each. Constellation Energy gained 2%, while Cameco rose 4%. Intuit —…

Holiday side quests — there’s nothing like them. They’re the holiday-within-a-holiday people (me) like to book as a change of pace from their “main event” vacation destination. Off to Barcelona? Why not hire a car and motor up to the sunny shores of the nearby Costa Brava! London trip planned? Jump on that train to Brighton for a weekend away! Coming to Perth? A weeknight stay on Rottnest’s a-calling — you get the drift.On a recent trip to Melbourne, our planned trip to nearby Kyneton, situated in the Macedon Ranges region of central Victoria , proved JUST the detour we’d…