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Rising investor gold demand offsets lower jewellery buying in Q3: WGC

Total demand for gold, including opaque OTC trading, rose 5 per cent to 1,313 tons, a record for a third quarter, the WGC said

Trump's Truth Social beats Musk's X in value; what's behind the surge?

Trump Media & Technology Group now holds a valuation exceeding $10 billion, with its stock more than quadrupling since late September

Japan's Mount Fuji snowless in late October, breaking 130-year record

Typically, Mount Fuji sees its first snowfall by early October, with the last record set for October 26 in 1955 and 2016

How Putin views Harris and Trump, and what election means for Russia

Trump put off comment for days, then did not connect Putin to the matter. He likened Navalny's punishment to his own fraud prosecution, calling his case a form of Navalny

Malaysian court orders ex-PM Najib to enter defence in his 2nd graft trial

Najib faces up to 20 years in prison for each count of abuse of power and up to five years for each of the money laundering charges

About 475 damaged ballots retrieved from burned box in Washington: Auditor

Incendiary devices damaged and destroyed hundreds of ballots at a drop box in Vancouver, Washington, and damaged three ballots at a box in Portland, Oregon

Who is Sheikh Naim Qassem - the new face of Hezbollah after Nasrallah?

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant labels Sheikh Naim Qassem's appointment a 'temporary' measure while predicting his term would not last

Trump unstable, obsessed with revenge: Harris urges voters to reject chaos

In discussing her policy plans, she cast herself as a president who would expand Medicare to cover home health care

Visa profit rises, beats expectations as cross-border transactions jump

The results were "driven by relatively stable growth in payments volume, cross-border volume and processed transactions, plus strong momentum across new flows and value-added services," Chief

US travel industry expected to bounce back faster due to visa reforms

In the 12 months up to Sept. 30, the US State Department issued a record 11.5 million visas, 8.5 million of which were visitor visas, said Blinken. The median wait time for first-time visitors

'Perception of bias': What Jeff Bezos said on the WaPo not endorsing Harris

Writing in an article on the Washington Post's website, Bezos said that endorsements do not influence election outcomes but may, instead, sway public trust

Israel must step in if it bans the UN agency that is lifeline for Gaza: UN

UN agencies for children, health and migration also stressed that UNRWA is the backbone of the world body's operations in Gaza, where people have relied on its emergency food aid and health centers

US and Indian Elections: A comparison of electoral systems between the two

Moreover, the Electoral College tampers with the principle of 'one person, one vote, one value' in two significant ways

Snap reports strong revenue growth, boosting shares amid ad revamp

"Snap's continued hard work to revamp its ad business to better serve performance-focused advertisers, particularly small and medium-sized businesses, and diversify its revenue streams through

US Elections: Kamala Harris' speech at National Mall casts Trump as threat

But a major challenge for the vice president has been streamlining and consolidating her often scattershot argument to voters who have spent a decade hearing about the dangers Trump poses, even as new

Two Israeli airstrikes in northern Gaza strip kill 88, say officials

A short while later, eight Austrian soldiers serving in the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon were reported lightly injured in a midday missile strike

Biden suggests Trump supporters 'garbage' after comic insults Puerto Rico

The president then added: The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters

Russian hackers are targeting US govt officials, defence workers: Microsoft

Microsoft has said the attacks are perpetrated by sophisticated Russian nation-state group Midnight Blizzard, which US and UK governments have connected to SVR, Russian foreign intelligence service

China launches new crew to its space station to expand exploration

Besides putting a space station into orbit, the Chinese space agency has landed an explorer on Mars and aims to put a person on moon before 2030, which would make China second nation to do so

Samsung's sudden $122 billion wipeout shows cost of sleeping on AI

South Korea's biggest company has become a stark example of how quickly fortunes can turn in an industry where the spoils go to those who maintain a technological edge