Just over 2,500 Nova Scotia Power customers on Peggys Cove Road woke up Friday morning in the dark after an outage knocked out electricity for those living along the shore of St. Margaret’s Bay. The utility’s outage map showed it running along the road from Upper Tantallon to East Dover. Over 25,00 NSP customers were […]
BANGKOK (AP) — Asian shares mostly fell Tuesday after U.S. stocks pulled away from their record heights, while U.S. futures edged higher. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index was the main outlier, gaining 0.1% to 50,655.10. Chinese markets declined as investors watched for news from the Central Economic Work Conference, an annual planning meeting of the ruling […]
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A fire tore through an office building in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, on Tuesday, killing at least 17 people, police said. Flames engulfed the seven-story building, sending thick black smoke billowing into the sky and causing panic among nearby residents and workers in a neighborhood in Central Jakarta. The Associated Press
ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — Getting ready for the holiday season has never been stressful for Christel Dauwe — after all, her holiday period lasts all year long in her Christmas ornament shop in the Belgian city of Antwerp. Her collecting began in her teenage years, and she now has more than 64,000 ornaments in her […]
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Lithuania’s government on Tuesday declared a national emergency over security risks posed by balloons from Russia-allied Belarus that have violated its airspace in recent weeks. Tensions between Lithuania and Belarus have escalated after meteorological balloons from Belarus forced Lithuania to repeatedly shut down its main airport in the past weeks, leaving […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Police have been deployed in mostly empty streets in Tanzania’s major cities on Tuesday ahead of planned protests that the government has preemptively declared illegal, urging citizens to stay home for Independence Day celebrations in the Eastern African nation. Activists have called for protests over the ruling party’s victory in a […]
A continent as large as Asia rarely speaks in a single tone. Its 2025 played out in polyphony — with chords of devotion, chaos, spectacle and fatigue — each a reminder of how much can, and does, coexist. AP photographs, taken from the Himalayas to the Java Sea, recorded all of them. Some moments are […]
The XRP price narrative is heating up again as markets brace for the pivotal FOMC meeting on December 9-10, 2025. With crypto trading sideways during a tense macro reset, many analysts believe XRP could be one of the biggest beneficiaries if the Federal Reserve confirms a dovish shift. After years of quantitative tightening, shrinking liquidity, […]
With SpaceX’s valuation expected to skyrocket, its CEO largely credits satellites, rocket launches — and the company’s plan to solve a major AI-industry problem.
An always-on crypto-hype machine lives to goose prices and then blame “macro” when the selloff hits.