The United Nations is working with countries to resume the evacuation of hundreds of ships and thousands of stranded seafarers from the Strait of Hormuz after the effort was halted earlier this week, a top U.N. agency official said on Friday.
Luxury group LVMH said no water was wasted in the giant artificial waterfall built by its flagship Louis Vuitton brand to open Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday, as the French capital sweltered through a record-breaking heatwave that has made water use a sensitive issue.
Even by SpaceX standards, Friday is shaping up as an eventful trading session as investment funds tracking Russell indexes prepare to add billions of dollars’ worth of Elon Musk’s internet and rocket company to their holdings.
The dollar heads into the second half of 2026 on a high, thanks to bets for higher U.S. interest rates and an unquenchable thirst for U.S. assets from investors chasing the “American exceptionalism” that may spell more pain for other currencies.
Billionaire investor Leon Black told a U.S. congressional panel on Friday that he had no involvement or knowledge of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s “heinous conduct.”
Apple announces price hikes, blaming surging memory chip costs.
The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were on pace for steep weekly losses as chipmakers came under renewed selling pressure on Friday after a stellar run this quarter, with investors questioning high valuations and the repercussions of massive AI spending by companies.
The 7-1 vote by the city’s Rent Guidelines Board fulfils a central campaign promise of Zohran Mamdani only months into his term.
The struggling Midwestern city was thrust into the middle of a national conversation.
Israel’s former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, who lost a son in Gaza and boasts of his “Dahiyeh doctrine” of smashing foes with disproportionate force, is surging in polls and could oust Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister in a coming election.