Barcelona beat Real Betis 5-2 at La Cartuja on Saturday to make it nine wins from nine in La Liga, moving to 27 points and five clear of Atletico Madrid at the top.
A 34-year-old man was shot in the chest on the northbound B, D and E platform at Seventh Avenue and 53rd Street at about 12:21 p.m. on Saturday. He was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital. Police said the shooting was targeted, and officers were searching for a gunman in a red tracksuit.
In a 14-page motion filed late Friday, Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward accused Judge Ana Reyes of deep-seated antipathy toward the Trump administration and asked that the East Potomac Golf Course case be handed to another judge.
Steven Hamilton died at the scene after an 11-foot, 8-inch alligator bit him while he was fishing at Dr. Bradford Memorial Park on Friday. It was Florida's second fatal alligator attack since June.
Champi's northern eyewall is moving ashore over southern Guam. The National Weather Service has issued an Extreme Wind Warning for the far south of the island until 5:30 a.m. Sunday, with winds of 115 to 135 mph expected and the storm at 140 mph.
INS Samarthak joined the Indian Navy at Karwar on October 16, the first major warship built by a private shipyard in India, with more than 75 percent indigenous content.
Russia's foreign minister will meet Iran's Abbas Araghchi in Tehran on October 19, with de-escalation in West Asia at the centre of the talks as attacks continue around the Strait of Hormuz.
A crowd crush at the exit gate of the Chorbagan Sarbojanin pandal in north Kolkata during heavy rain on Saturday evening killed at least 17 people. About 35 injured people were taken to Medical College Hospital.
Gagan Kumar Thapa took the oath of office and secrecy at the Nepali Congress central office in Sanepa on Saturday, after winning the party presidency with 6,584 votes at the 15th general convention.
Governor Tiff Macklem said on October 17 that the Bank of Canada expects to raise its quarterly inflation forecast significantly this month as oil prices stay high.
Circle Chief Executive Jeremy Allaire told Reuters in Bangkok that the USDC issuer plans to enter about 40 new emerging and developing markets.
OPEC projects global oil demand will average 108.2 million barrels a day in 2027, led by India and Other Asia, after a far weaker rise in 2026.
The Reserve Bank of India has given its No Objection Certificate, dated October 15, for REC to merge into PFC, creating a lender with a loan book over Rs 11 lakh crore.
India's cyber agency rated its October 15 advisory critical. Evaluation agents used exposed credentials to read confidential records, no organisation noticed, and criminals are running the same playbook with open source tools.
The DGCA has barred the MOBIKINS MK-PB-04 from passenger baggage and cargo on all flights to, from and within India. Other power banks still fly. Here is what travelers need to check.
EverWind will build a 420 megawatt campus at Point Tupper and lease the first phase to Anthropic for at least 20 years, in a project priced at more than 10 billion Canadian dollars.
A three judge Ninth Circuit panel threw out class certification on Friday, saying buyers could not show the whole class saw Tesla's hardware claim. The ruling does not decide whether the claim was false.
Barcelona beat Real Betis 5-2 at La Cartuja on Saturday to make it nine wins from nine in La Liga, moving to 27 points and five clear of Atletico Madrid at the top.
Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 1, 2026. Clocks go back one hour to 1 a.m., giving most Americans an extra hour of sleep and earlier sunsets.
Phulpati falls on Saturday, October 17, with the auspicious time to bring the sacred plants home set at 7:37 a.m. Offices close, the Gorkha procession reaches Hanuman Dhoka, and Tika is set for October 21 at 10:26 a.m.
The Bureau of Prisons confirmed Sean Combs left FCI Fort Dix for FCI Allenwood Low on Friday. The agency gave no reason for the transfer.
Chelsea midfielder Cole Palmer beat streamer IShowSpeed 18-0 on EA Sports FC 27 on a livestream, with no shots allowed for his opponent.
Carrots can fix a vitamin A deficiency and protect normal vision, but they cannot sharpen healthy eyes or create night vision. The bigger claim was a World War II cover story for secret radar.
Turritopsis dohrnii is only about 4.5 millimetres across, smaller than a pinky nail. When injured, sick or starving, the adult can revert to its juvenile polyp stage and grow up again, a cycle biologists call biologically immortal.
Teaching existed at Oxford by 1096, a full 229 years before Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec world, was founded in 1325.
Thousands of years ago the world's largest hot desert held savanna, rivers and lakes. Rock art and sediment records show the green phase returned again and again, driven by shifts in Earth's orbit.
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