Malaysia PM Calls Prabowo Over Haze as Kuala Lumpur Chokes

Flavio Bolsonaro says he would work with China and US as Brazil’s president

Flavio Bolsonaro said he would work with the US and China if he becomes Brazil’s president, after a surprise election performance left him poised to join a wave of conservative leaders pushing Latin America closer to Washington. “I’m not going to pick sides,” Bolsonaro said at an event in Brasilia on Thursday. “My side will be the Brazilian people, whether we’re dealing with China, Israel, the Middle East, Argentina or India. It doesn’t matter. That’s how I’m going to govern.” Bolsonaro finished...

IMF invites BOJ chief Ueda to speak on November 6

Holborn and St Pancras by-election result live: Polanski hoping to win Starmer’s old seat as polls close

Voters had the choice of 15 candidates to replace Sir Keir Starmer, who resigned from the House of Commons last month

7 reasons why G-Dragon is still K-pop’s ultimate fashion icon, 20 years on

From becoming Chanel’s first Asian global ambassador to creating sold-out Nike sneakers, G-Dragon has spent two decades breaking fashion rules – and inspiring a generation of K-pop stars to do the same.

OpenAI users in Russia, Iran used models to push political agenda online, in media

OpenAI banned several accounts associated with two propaganda operations based in Iran and Russia, respectively, it confirmed Thursday — the latter of which the tech company said had the greatest reach it has recorded since it began reporting on and disrupting such schemes. The influence operations used OpenAI models alongside "more traditional techniques and technologies...

Carney says Canadians will decide their future after Elon Musk expresses support for separatism

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that Canada’s future will be decided by Canadians and that they should be free from “large tech firms that think they can tell us what to do” when asked about Elon Musk’s call for Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan to separate from the country

Malaysia PM Calls Prabowo Over Haze as Kuala Lumpur Chokes

Malaysia’s prime minister has contacted Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto about efforts to tackle the thick smog that has choked Kuala Lumpur and other parts of the country as weeks of devastating wildfires consume swathes of the neighboring archipelago.

JD Vance rebukes selling access to government officials after Kimberly Guilfoyle’s ‘unseemly’ texts revealed

‘It's extremely unseemly, these text messages. There's no other way to read it,’ one Trump loyalist said of the U.S. ambassador to Greece’s reported conversation with a donor to the president

Federal agents involved in a shooting that wounds a person in New York, police say

New York Police say federal law enforcement agents shot and wounded a person in New York City

US to livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter

The Pentagon says the military execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said it would be “public”.

Mark Zuckerberg has an image problem - so why is Meta's business booming?

A new film paints the Meta founder as a villain. But the tech firm seems immune to bad publicity, writes our North America tech correspondent.

Character.AI chatbots encouraged users to cut and starve themselves, Kentucky alleges