Infantino defends World Cup ticket prices
Fifa president Gianni Infantino defends the cost of World Cup tickets following "absolutely crazy" demand from the public.
Preparations Underway in Countdown to New Year’s Eve
Preparations are underway in New York’s Times Square where roughly a million people will gather on New Year’s Eve. The celebration will feature a brand-new ball that is the largest ever installed there. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY.
Postcard From The Edge: Hope, Fear, Fatigue, And Resilience In Wartime Dnipro
Despite weekly Russian air attacks and constant power outages, Ukraine’s key volunteer hub and major industrial center, Dnipro, lives on. As the fourth year of full-scale war comes to a close, the city's appearance and sound take on new forms.
Trump and Netanyahu are to meet in Florida at a crucial moment for the US-backed Gaza ceasefire
They aim to boost a U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, which faces challenges as it looks to move into a more complicated second phase.
She left the dating parlors and courting buggies of Lancaster behind. Now she’s learning to date from scratch.
Susanna Nolt grew up in Ephrata, the eighth in a family of 12 kids. They were Old Order Mennonites and lived similarly to the Amish. There weren’t arranged marriages, but Nolt knew what was expected: Around age 18, she could begin dating a young man who was baptized in the Church. After marrying, she would raise her own large family within the Old Order Mennonite community.
Taiwan’s leader seeks T-Dome ‘connectivity’ network to defend against Beijing attack
Taiwan is seeking to fuse satellite, radar and drone data into a “connectivity” network as part of Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te’s multibillion-dollar bid to build a layered defence shield to counter Beijing’s possible missile attacks.
The plan, which Lai calls the “Taiwan shield” and officials and analysts often refer to as the backbone of a broader “T-Dome” concept, is intended to overhaul how Taiwan detects, tracks and intercepts incoming threats.
In a televised interview on Sunday,...
ByteDance’s Volcano Engine lands exclusive AI cloud slot at Spring Festival Gala
Volcano Engine, the cloud computing unit of Chinese tech giant ByteDance, said on Monday it has secured an “exclusive AI cloud partnership” with the Spring Festival Gala – a marquee slot that underlines the company’s ambition to turn its artificial intelligence cloud business into a national-scale platform.
Volcano Engine said the deal – built on “cutting-edge multimodal large models and cloud computing technologies” – would see it “play a pivotal role in broadcasting, online interactions and...
China has logged a US$1 trillion trade surplus. Where is all that money going?
Recent data on China’s external accounts presents a conundrum: while the country’s trade surplus has broken records, surpassing the US$1 trillion benchmark in the first 11 months of the year, growth in its official foreign exchange reserves has lagged. This seeming paradox prompts a question – where did the money go?
Analysts said the gap reflects how much of the surplus has flowed back overseas through asset investment, largely made by private-sector players, leaving China’s external accounts...
US pledges $2B for UN humanitarian aid as Trump slashes funding and warns agencies to ‘adapt or die’
The announcement caps a crisis year for many U.N. organizations as the U.S. and other Western donors have cut billions in funding.
Boss of Everyman cinema chain departs weeks after profit warning
The upmarket cinema chain faces a leadership shake-up weeks after it cut its revenue forecasts.
Boss of Everyman cinema chain departs weeks after profit warning
The upmarket cinema chain faces a leadership shake-up weeks after it cut its revenue forecasts.
Boss of Everyman cinema chain departs weeks after profit warning
The upmarket cinema chain faces a leadership shake-up weeks after it cut its revenue forecasts.