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Officials say building in Nairobi's Eastleigh area had no occupation certificate, but ground floor was in use.

Many people are feared trapped after a multi-storey building collapsed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

Sonny Bill Williams has revealed he's had emergency open-heart surgery.

This year’s olive harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is the most violent in years, as settlers have attacked farmers and besieged homes, drawing condemnation from U.S. officials and others.

Arsenal forward Bukayo Saka could be sidelined for up to eight weeks with the quadriceps injury he suffered against Bayern Munich.

People are feared to be trapped after a large, unfinished building in Nairobi collapsed during construction. Rescue operations have proven complicated as police fired tear gas to disperse looters.

The woman, known anonymously as Jane Doe, alleged she was drugged and raped by several men on Cornell's campus.

A multi-story building has collapsed in a busy commercial area of Kenya’s capital, and many people could be trapped beneath the rubble

<p>It is possible to take lessons from exposure therapy and apply them outside the clinic, experts say</p>

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<p>Brent crude increase follows Tehran threatening retaliatory attacks on Gulf refineries and datacentres</p><p>Oil has hit its highest level in more than six months as fears of fresh escalation in the Middle East conflict grip the energy markets.</p><p>Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, rose by about 3.5% on Friday to pass $117 a barrel at on

A bill to bolster the nation’s unemployment insurance program reflects the concern — and the risks — in Washington.

Australia could do with more politicians like Helen Haines. But after Monday’s attack, many women would be forgiven for deciding the cost of entering public life is too high.

Mirik Milan says nighttime in cities is seen as a blight of “mischief and mayhem”. His vision transformed Amsterdam’s outskirts – and it could do the same for Melbourne.

Oil prices closed out the week solidly higher with the market on edge about the possibility of renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities and further attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure.

Rise in energy prices pushes US inflation expectations higher

OPINION: The brutal attack on an Australian MP has pushed safety into the spotlight.

Just 22 per cent of respondents indicated they would make such a disclosure to seek medical support

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Artificial intelligence has found critical security flaws in a major programming language called PHP, with many websites taken offline as organisations worldwide work to fend off would-be hackers, but what is PHP and how has it raised AI hacking fears?

Without intervention, a crunch point for emergency supplies could come as soon as this winter under extreme circumstances, regulators warned.

Social media group’s market value sinks by $124bn after it says it will raise ‘hundreds of billions of dollars’ in coming years

After briefly overtaking Toyota as Japan's biggest company, SoftBank's market capitalization is now smaller than that of Hitachi and Recruit.

With vote at knife’s edge, Palestinian citizens weigh principle against strategic voting in system stacked against them.

<p>Artificial intelligence has found critical security flaws in a major programming language called PHP, with many websites taken offline Thursday as organisations worldwide scramble to fend off would-be hackers.</p> <p>As AI’s fast-advancing capabilities fuel concern over the increased risk of cyberattacks, here are some questions and answers about the situ

The Manly forward was chosen to lead the pre-match Sipi Tau – regarded as the ultimate honour for a Tongan player.

Increasingly complex in-car touchscreen menus are unnecessarily distracting drivers, experts say, with calls to force manufacturers to redesign car controls.

Regional female MPs are reviewing their safety measures and changing how they move around in public spaces, which are often far from emergency services.

Mekelle’s reopening offers little relief as instability and economic hardship persist.

A strike on a Saudi Aramco facility killed two people while an attack on the King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, killed one.

Blackstone’s AI head on why the PE giant isn't panicked by market jitters.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is ordering some diplomats and the families of U.S. government employees to leave Saudi Arabia following a series of deadly attacks in the country by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and rising fears of an escalation in hostilities.

Florida's Thomas Haugh and Michigan State's Jeremy Fears Jr. returned to make their teams among the front-runners to cut down the nets next spring and earned them preseason All-America honors from The Associated Press.

‘I have nothing left.’ Small business owners in Paris say they are traumatised after rioters looted their shops.

People who come into contact with glycidyl methacrylate may feel as if their eyes, nose, mouth and skin are burning, the city fire department said. Overexposure can lead to headache, dizziness, tiredness, nausea and vomiting.

Developers ​of the PHP programming language said they had identified two critical vulnerabilities, and urged ​users to update their sites as soon as a fix was released.

A massive study of more than 460,000 Americans found that ultra-processed foods were not associated with increased colorectal cancer risk overall, challenging a widely held assumption. While processed meat was linked to higher cancer incidence, ultra-processed whole grains and dairy products were associated with lower incidence.

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<p>Yield on 10-year government bonds passes 5% amid failure to pass budget and fallout from violent street protests</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/21/uk-inflation-jump-rising-motor-fuels-cost-jackdaw-gas-field-latest-news-updates"><strong>Business live – latest updates</strong></a></p></li></ul><p>France’s borrowing

Founder Josh Payne says demand remains ‘insatiable’ for the services of Nvidia-backed data centre group

Falling US crude and product inventories lend support to prices

<p>Laddli Khatun pulled one document after another from a yellow bag, desperately hoping one would be enough to keep her name on India’s electoral rolls.</p> <p>As the world’s largest democracy overhauls its voter lists, millions like Khatun are scrambling to re-establish their credentials, despite having voted before.</p> <p>Critics and opposition parties s

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested nine undocumented migrants, all with criminal records, near a high school in northern New Jersey. But officials there said the agents are also questioning nearby residents, stirring fear in the community. Lilia Luciano reports.

Opus 5.5 continues to wreak havoc among independent devs.

Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Bangka slow loris is one of Earth's most exotic primates, a slow-moving tree dweller that happens to be venomous. It was listed as critically endangered and possibly extinct, last scientifically documented in the 1930s, but now has been rediscovered on the tropical Indonesian island of Bangka.

Popular conceptions of AI differ drastically between the US and China. Columnist Annalee Newitz dives into the cultural, religious and sci-fi factors driving our impressions of its power

<p>Westminster appears to be waking up to warnings over AI safety, with concerns over its use by extremist groups and bad actors</p><p>“I have this sense that, within a few months, AI is going to be all anyone is talking about,” said one cabinet minister, with an ominous stare.</p><p>It was Labour conference, with everyone from ministers to activists jubilan

Election officials say they worry the administration could use its own unsubstantiated claims to contest the vote in November.