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David Szalay beats Kiran Desai to win 2025 Booker Prize for novel 'Flesh'

Using only the sparest of prose, this hypnotically tense and compelling book becomes an astonishingly moving portrait of a man's life, the Booker Prize judges said of their winning choice

G7 foreign ministers meet in Canada amid tensions over trade, defence, wars

Anand also invited the foreign ministers of Australia, Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa and Ukraine

Operations unaffected by $100 mn graft probe: Ukraine's Energoatom

Its assurances came a day after the agency revealed some details of a 15-month investigation into suspected corruption in the energy sector, including at Energoatom

Vodafone to increase dividend for first time in 8 yrs after Germany growth

The group slashed its dividend by 40% in May 2019 after the cost of buying 5G spectrum caused its debt to balloon

US 'pretty close' to seal trade deal with India, says Donald Trump

This is the second time in less than two weeks that the US president held out hope to seal the proposed bilateral trade deal with India

Romania finds possible drone fragments after Russian strikes on Ukraine

Romanian radars detected groups of drones near the Nato country's airspace just after midnight Tuesday, prompting the ministry to issue an alert to residents of the southeastern region

Ecommerce to grow 16% in Southeast Asia as video, AI reshape shopping

Southeast Asia's digital economy is set to grow 15% in 2025, led by a boom in video-based shopping and AI tools that are changing how people buy fashion, beauty, food and travel services online

Asian shares mostly lower as tech rally cools amid US shutdown progress

Shares have been bouncing on criticism that tech share prices have shot too high due to the mania for artificial intelligence, which some have likened to the 2000 dot-com bubble that ultimately burst

US govt shutdown nears end, but would leave lasting impact on economy

The previous longest government shutdown, in 2018-2019, lasted 35 days but only partially shut the government because many agencies had been fully funded

Tensions rise between Japan, China after PM Takaichi's remarks over Taiwan

The latest diplomatic spat started on Friday when Takaichi was asked in parliament about scenarios that would constitute a threat to Japan

China announces curbs on chemicals after Trump deal on fentanyl tariffs

It shows the back-and-forth nature of US-Chinese cooperation on fentanyl over the years and lessens the recent tensions after Trump launched his campaign of tariffs

Air travellers face frustration as FAA's further flight cuts take effect

The FAA warned that staffing at over a dozen towers and control centres could delay planes departing for Phoenix, San Diego, the New York area and Houston, among other cities

Trump defends entry of foreign students to US, calls it 'good practice'

Donald Trump argued that reducing the number of foreign students would incur financial harm to the university system and lead some schools, including Black institutions, to go out of business

Trump's $2,000 tariff 'dividend' echoes Covid-era stimulus checks

On Monday, Trump again posted on the payout idea on Truth Social, saying that the tariff revenue money "left over from the $2,000 payments" would be used to "substantially pay down national debt"

Trump's war on media goes international as BBC apologises over Jan 6 edit

BBC Chairman acknowledged that edited footage of Trump's speech near the US Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, which aired on 'Panorama' last year, wrongly gave 'the impression of direct call for violent action'

Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn $5 mn judgment in Jean Carroll case

Trump was found liable by a Manhattan jury in May 2023 for sexually assaulting Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by calling her a liar, following a trial in which he declined to testify

US Senate approves bill to end govt shutdown, sending it to House

The Senate passed the bill by a 60-40 vote, ending a long six-week deadlock. US President Donald Trump supported the deal

2 dead after small plane on relief mission to Jamaica crashes near Florida

Officials cautioned residents that police would maintain a significant presence in the area throughout Monday and Tuesday as investigators continue collecting evidence

Mounting debt fuels AI data centre boom, raising fears of financial strain

Smaller outfits - far from household names, not nearly as wealthy but eager to get in on the AI boom - have started to build their own giant data centers

US, China suspend mutual shipping probes as trade talks ease tensions

The suspensions remove some costs and uncertainty for an industry that had been facing fees to deliver goods to the US