Thursday, October 29, 2026
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a rule allowing specialty compounding pharmacies to sell six peptide drugs, overruling FDA scientists who say there is insufficient evidence they work and that they may be dangerous; the…
Join the conversationBitcoin fell 1.4% since midnight UTC to around $80,100 as disappointing reports from Samsung and Alphabet weighed on tech stocks, with the Fed's…
Thailand's Supreme Court ruled that bitcoin is property because it has a market price and can be cashed out and held by the public, upholding a…
Polymarket has suspended trading after a breach at a third party led to losses for users, CoinDesk reported on Thursday.
Binance has lost $5.7 billion in what CoinDesk calls the largest crypto hack to date, and crypto prices are sliding, with bitcoin falling back to…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is pushing for closer economic and defence ties at the Canada-EU summit in Montreal, though the term "associate…
The United States has sanctioned Rwanda's defence ministry, while Congo accuses Rwanda of backing M23 rebels and plundering minerals in its…
China's Xi Jinping emphasised "party discipline" at a political gathering as a record number of purges was reported, with observers calling his…
El Salvador is sending 2,000 troops to Haiti to try to recover four military personnel who went missing in an ambush on the outskirts of…
Ethiopia has acquired Russian fighter jets and air defence systems as fighting that began last month continues in the northern Tigray region.
Pakistani human rights activist Imaan Mazari and her husband were sentenced to 10 years in prison, and the couple say they are "prisoners of…
Opposition lawmakers disrupted a session of Albania's parliament on Thursday, setting off flares and smoke bombs and accusing the prime minister of…
Victoria's Court of Appeal has rejected Erin Patterson's appeal against her convictions for the deadly beef wellington lunch that killed three…
EUFOR confirmed that a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with four Italian nationals confirmed dead.
The US economy grew at a 3.4% annualized rate in the third quarter, above the 3.2% economists polled by Reuters expected, as consumer spending and…
The European Central Bank announced that Christine Lagarde will step down as president on 7 February 2027, nine months before her term was due to end.
The Federal Trade Commission is demanding that Delta, United, JetBlue, Lyft, Uber, DoorDash, Instacart, Target and Walmart explain how they use…
DoorDash said it will buy Instacart in a $17bn deal that would expand its grocery delivery business, with the Instacart brand and app to remain.
Poundland's bosses are filing a notice of intention to appoint administrators to the UK discount retailer.
The Pentagon has fired Army Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, saying he leaked classified information to the media, following an investigation into…
NASA's Juno spacecraft has found that Jupiter uses powerful plasma waves and multiple shock regions to defend against the solar wind, differences…
Vietnam became the 78th nation to sign the Artemis Accords, NASA announced, joining a coalition committed to the peaceful, transparent and…
Microsoft reported soaring profits days after announcing thousands of layoffs, BBC reports.
President Trump, in an order issued on October 28, declared imports of foreign-made factory robots a national security threat, ordering trade…
A micro-drama will use AI-assisted technology to edit old episodes of the Australian soap Neighbours to focus on Margot Robbie's character,…
Actor Patrick Stewart, known as Captain Picard in Star Trek and Professor X in the X-Men films, has died at 86, NPR reports.
The Africa CDC's director general, Dr Jean Kaseya, called the Ebola outbreak "unprecedented", with the case count at 10,000 and almost 5,000…
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