Sprint king Matthew Brennan claimed a fifth Vuelta a Espana stage victory on Wednesday as he edged a bunch sprint in Seville to win the 17th stage.
International oil benchmark Brent spiked above $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time since late July following renewed US-Iran hostilities in the Middle East, stoking fears of widespread price rises and interest rate hikes.
The contiguous United States endured its hottest summer since modern records began, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday, in the latest sign of a warming trend driven by human-caused climate change.
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World mile record holder Josh Kerr says he "loves racing" and he aims to sign off a spectacular season with victory at the Ultimate Championship this weekend -- but he shrugged off criticism from his old foe Jakob Ingebrigtsen.
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More than 300 works by Japanese contemporary artist Yayoi Kusama go on display in Amsterdam from Friday, an exhibit that has become a tribute to the "polka dot queen" who died last month.
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Fifty years after Barbara Kopple first tackled the topic of labour rights, workers in the United States are still struggling to get their due, the filmmaker said as her latest film premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
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IC Markets Australia is proud to announce it has been named the winner of the People's Choice Forex Broker Innovation Award in the 2026 Finder Innovation Awards program.
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Nepali rescuers clung to hopes of finding survivors trapped in hydropower tunnels on Wednesday, two weeks after deadly flooding triggered by a glacial mountain collapse.
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Economy
Brent oil, the international benchmark, jumped above $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time since the end of July on a fresh flare-up in the Middle East war, adding to concerns over high inflation.
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The death toll from a measles outbreak in Bangladesh has topped 1,000 children since March, health officials said Wednesday, admitting failures in a vaccination drive that could have saved lives.
The European Union on Wednesday proposed new rules to encourage member states to choose domestic companies over Chinese bidders in government contracts.
Pakistan slumped to 26-4 in the third Test at Edgbaston on Wednesday after yet another collapse during their sorry tour of England, with Ollie Robinson and Jofra Archer taking two wickets each.
Google will invest at least 13 billion euros in data centres and other digital infrastructure to power its AI ambitions in Finland, in what the US tech giant called Wednesday its biggest single investment in Europe.
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European cities will gain more leeway to curb short-term rentals such as Airbnb under plans aimed at bringing down housing costs in tourism hotspots put forward by the EU Wednesday.
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Singaporeans expressed mixed reactions on Wednesday over hefty pay raises for political leaders, with some saying the demands of governing justified the bump while others questioned their scale and called for transparency.
Goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois said in quotes published on Wednesday he has decided to put his Belgium career on standby until September 2027.
UK air travellers faced more misery Wednesday with 177 flights scrapped across the country, as Britain's air traffic control service scrambled to recover from a technical glitch which it ruled out as a cyberattack.
The new context layer connects to existing SQL databases and builds a governed, model-agnostic foundation for AI agents running on live operational data, in weeks rather than years.
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