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Oct 10, 2026 - World

The planning focuses on what could happen after a catastrophic event, particularly a cyberattack that disrupts essential services such as financial systems, internet connectivity, electricity, or water supplies.

Oct 10, 2026 - World

Jeff Bezos said improvements in productivity could give workers more choices, including the option to work fewer days while earning enough to support their households.

Oct 10, 2026 - World

Koos Bekker’s Newt estate encompasses luxury hotels, pubs and high street business, with local concerns including floodingWhen South African billionaire Koos Bekker bought an old country estate in a sleepy corner of Somerset to turn it into a luxury hotel, residents thought it was a sign their area was on the up.Walking through his peaceful manicured gardens, which feature a maze of apple trees twisted into perfect shapes using the espalier method, it’s easy to feel that all is well in this quiet, picturesque pocket of England. Continue reading...

Oct 10, 2026 - World

Donald Trump still can’t let the Nobel go.On Saturday morning, a few hours after a late-night Truth Social rant about losing the Peace Prize, the president posted about it again. This time he misspelled it.“I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country,” Trump wrote at 8:04 a.m. Eastern.He added that he had stopped Iran “from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon — AND MUCH MORE!”“Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!”His first post went up Friday at 11:39 p.m. Eastern. That one ran nearly 600 words, called the committee’s choice “an indelible stain on Norway,” and dismissed the winner, former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay, as someone “who nobody has ever heard of.”He’s getting little sympathy. CNN reported Friday that Trump’s quest for the prize “is now the butt of the joke.”The Nobel committee praised Pillay “for her efforts to promote peace and international law.” Last month, Trump urged countries to quit the ICC.

Oct 10, 2026 - World

Isaias, which is the first hurricane to hit the eastern US since Milton tore up the Gulf Coast of Florida in 2024, also is expected to bring heavy rain and potential flooding.