Power cut hits Zimbabwe's parliament after budget speech

Ken Griffin, chief executive officer and founder of Citadel Advisors LLC, speaks during an Economic Club of New York event in New York, US, on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. Yuki Iwamura | Bloomberg | Getty Images Citadel CEO Ken Griffin issued a warning against the steep tariffs President-elect Donald Trump vowed to implement, saying crony…

London’s South Bank has been transformed into the Emerald City for the European premiere of Wicked. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo and Jeff Goldbum were among the cast to brave the rainy weather. The film is an adaptation of the stage musical which tells the origin story of the Wicked Witch of the West from The…

Israel says it has introduced a daily “tactical pause” of military activity along a route in southern Gaza to allow aid to be distributed, but said there will be no let up in fighting in and around Rafah in southern Gaza. The pauses began on Saturday and will take place every day from 8 a.m….

Can artificial intelligence be so transformative as to solve one of the U.S. economy’s biggest problems: its skyrocketing fiscal deficit? According to three economists at the Brookings Institution, the answer is yes — AI could prove a positive “critical shock” for the country’s fiscal health.  A working paper released last month by the Center on…

A voter casts his ballot at a voting station in the fishing village of Ndayane on Nov. 17, 2024, during Senegal’s parliamentary elections. John Wessels | Afp | Getty Images Senegal headed to the polls on Sunday to vote in legislative elections that the president hopes will give his party a clear majority and the…

India’s airlines and airports received 999 hoax bomb threats this year as of 14 November, the country’s deputy civil aviation minister told its parliament. This was nearly 10 times more than the threats received in 2023, Mr Murlidhar Mohol said. More than 500 of the year’s threats were received just in the last two weeks…