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Samsung debuts its first trifold smartphone months ahead of folding iPhone

The handset, called the Galaxy Z TriFold, is part of a small subset of folding phones that have two hinges, allowing them to transform into larger, tablet-sized devices

SoftBank's Masayoshi Son 'cried' about Nvidia stake sale to fund AI bets

SoftBank has doubled down on its bets on AI through a flurry of projects that include a Stargate data center with Hon Hai Precision Industry Co

Severe storms kill nearly 1,000 in Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka: Report

Three tropical cyclones, coinciding with the northeast monsoon that typically brings heavy downpours to Southeast Asia this time of year, have caused widespread destruction in the region

India's quiet rollback of trade barriers eases worry for global partners

The government argued that, since it was facing a flood of imports from China, it needed to ensure that these were of sufficient quality to meet Indian standards

Australia begins global drive to restrict social media access for children

While figures on the number of under-16s on social media globally are scarce, research firm EMarketer says about one in ten US users are under 18

Bytedance's TikTok playbook is winning China's consumer AI market

ByteDance's Doubao app - an all-in-one chatbot, photo and video tool - is now China's most popular mobile AI platform

Trump downplays Venezuelan airspace warning as US mulls new steps

The US is enacting a widening campaign in the Caribbean, one that began with fatal strikes on boats in international waters and continued when the US deployed additional Navy ships

I know who I am going to pick, says Trump on his choice of next Fed chair

Trump has frequently excoriated current Fed chief Jerome Powell for failing to lower rates swiftly and signalled he wants a chair who will more forcefully pursue cuts

China's factory activity slumps for longest stretch on record in Nov

The official manufacturing purchasing managers' index was 49.2, remaining below the 50 mark that separates growth and contraction for an eighth month

Eurozone inflation near 2% likely to keep ECB rates steady in December

Officials find themselves in a holding pattern at present, with no clear consensus on what the next move for rates should be

Wall Street sees Indian markets rebounding after year of underperformance

Morgan Stanley, Citigroup Inc and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are among those who expect the country's markets to claw back lost ground next year as earnings stabilise and policy support kicks in

Sergey Brin gifts $1.1 bn in Alphabet stock to charities after AI rally

The donation was disclosed Friday in a regulatory filing, which didn't specify who had received the more than 3.5 million shares

Northwestern reaches $75 mn deal with Trump admin to restore funding

Northwestern, which has campuses in Evanston, Illinois, and Chicago, had been crippled financially by the federal freeze and was self-financing its research, paying millions of dollars each month

Cyclone Ditwah kills 123 in Sri Lanka's worst flooding crisis in 20 years

Sri Lanka's scheduled budget debate was cancelled for Friday and Saturday, and the Colombo Stock Exchange shortened trading hours on Friday due to the adverse weather

Global flights in chaos as top-selling Airbus A320 planes hit by recall

Airlines rushed to implement the updates for affected A320 jetliners, grounding flights and upending plans for thousands of travellers, in a rare global recall of Airbus's top-selling je

Despairing Hongkongers stranded by fire seek help amid housing shortage

The scale of the disaster unfolding in northern Hong Kong - which killed at least 128 - presents an acute challenge to a city notorious for its housing shortage and sky-high rents

Hong Kong fire sparks calls to end bamboo scaffolding, tighten safety laws

Some 200 residents of Wang Fuk Court were still unaccounted for as of Friday, with Secretary for Security Chris Tang saying at a briefing that officials couldn't rule out finding more bodies

Global markets roiled after data-centre failure near Chicago halts trading

Even after trading was largely restored on Friday, disruptions extended well into the US session, with CME Direct, a trading platform provided by the exchange, offline for most of the day

Zelenskyy exposed after top aide resigns amid US and Russia pressures

Andriy Yermak's departure, amid a spiraling corruption scandal, comes just as Donald Trump is pushing Ukraine to make concessions to Russia in order to end almost four years of fighting

Trump vows strict curbs on legal migration after White House shooting

Trump's administration remained largely silent on how any of those changes would be made, which countries would be targeted or how sweeping the actions could be