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US President Donald Trump’s decision to ignore this year’s G20 summit in South Africa presents an opportunity for China, which is seeking to expand its growing influence on the continent and position itself as an alternative to the dangers of a unilateralist US.The U.S. government announced it would not attend the two-day summit that opens on Saturday, citing widely discredited claims that the host country, which was ruled by a white minority under an apartheid system until 1994, is now mistreating white people.Recommended stories list of 3 itemsend of listSouth African President Cyril Ramaphosa has hit back at Trump’s claims…

EDITOR’S NOTE:  Editor’s Note: This CNN Travel series may have adjacent ads by the country it highlights. CNN retains full editorial control over subject matter, reporting and frequency of the articles and videos, in compliance with our policy. Bodrum, Turkey  —  The mountainous Bodrum Peninsula rises over the vibrant blue Aegean Sea, its peak richly forested, its foothills stacked with white flat-roofed homes and hotels. On the peninsula’s exclusive northern coastline, superyachts bob between the ultra-luxury villas and hotels of Paradise Bay. In Bodrum town on the southern shore, traditional gulet sailing boats fill the marina, ready to take tourists…

Steve Smith marked his temporary return as Australia’s Ashes captain with a bizarre attack on former England spinner Monty Panesar during a press conference on the eve of the first Test in Perth.Panesar recently called on traveling fans and media to target Smith over his role in the Sandpapergate ball-tampering scandal seven years ago, saying he should be made to feel “guilty” for replacing Pat Cummins as captain. Asked about those comments, Smith attempted to discredit Panesar by detailing his gaffe-filled appearance on Celebrity Mastermind in 2019. “This is off-topic, but has anyone seen Mastermind and Monty Panesar in this…

Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has secured $1 billion from private equity firm TPG as part of a multi-year, $2 billion project to build a network of gigawatt data centers in the country. The project, dubbed HyperVault, comes as the demand for AI computing is growing faster than companies can build the power-hungry infrastructure needed to support AI computing. The gap between supply and demand for AI computing in India is particularly pronounced. India generates nearly 20% of the world’s data, but accounts for only about 3% of the world’s data center capacity. Major technology companies and cloud…

At this year’s Thorn London conference, hedge funds considered short bets on location-tracking apps, US real estate investment trusts and Swedish medical technology stocks. Meanwhile, Lombardi Capital founder Igor Kulika, who started his career at U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s hedge fund, has long admired the German brake maker. Gotham City Research and General Industrial Partners announced a short position in Iron Mountain, a US REIT whose primary business is paper storage. Iron Mountain, which has a market value of about $26 billion, has shifted its focus to its data center division over the past four years, a move Gotham…

A month after Russia’s latest attempt to take over the cities, Ukrainian garrisons are about to begin defending the besieged eastern cities of Pokrovsk and Mirnohrad.President Volodymyr Zelenskiy insisted on Thursday that Russia has no interest in ending the war, amid reports that Washington and Russia have drafted a 28-point peace plan as fighting intensifies on the front. The proposal is said to be an attempt to pressure Ukraine to give up land that Kiev has claimed is a red line that should not be crossed during the war.Recommended stories list of 4 itemsend of list”Russia doesn’t really want peace,…

Luke Littler and Luke Humphries will continue their rivalry from the Players Championship final to next month’s World Darts Championship.Littler and Humphries will be hoping to pull away from their other rivals and meet in another final at Alexandra Palace. Humphries will be chasing Littler, who lost his world number one spot to the teenage star who won their most recent encounter at the Grand Slam of Darts final earlier this month. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Highlights of the Grand Slam of Darts final between Littler and Humphries “I’m ready,” Littler told Sky Sports News.…

Zoran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state representative, won a surprising victory in the New York City mayoral election. Defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo, who had strong support from President Donald Trump and the political establishment, Mamdani became the city’s first Muslim immigrant mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century. The Democratic Socialists’ victory sent shockwaves through national politics, emboldening progressives across the country to run for office and win with an agenda as unabashedly ambitious as the moment demands.Mr. Mamdani campaigned throughout the city, reaching out to a variety of social groups, including African Americans, Muslims, Jews, Hindus,…

We’ve all felt the creeping suspicion that what we’re reading is being written by a large language model. But it’s very difficult to pin down. For several months last year, everyone became convinced that certain words like “explore” and “underscore” could identify the model, but the evidence was thin, and as the models became more sophisticated, the telltale words became harder to track down. But as it turns out, the folks at Wikipedia have gotten pretty good at flagging prose written by AI. And this group’s public guide, “Signs of AI Writing,” is the best resource I’ve found to find…

City workers in the La Defense commercial district on Thursday, October 9, 2025 in Paris, France. Nathan Lane | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesLONDON — European markets resumed their decline on Friday as volatility in U.S. tech stocks once again spilled over into the Atlantic.By 10:48 a.m. London (5:48 a.m. ET), pan-European Stocks 600 fell 0.9%, with major exchanges and most sectors in negative territory. Looking at individual stocks in Europe, Dutch semiconductor companies BE Semiconductor Chip equipment makers fell 7% in morning trading. ASMI and ASML They fell 5.8% and 7%, respectively. The region’s STOXX European Technology Index was down…