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Published on 23/09/2026 – 11:25 GMT+2 She just can’t take a break… Following her headline-dominating wedding this year, Taylor Swift has announced she’s back with a new single, titled ‘Patient Zero’, which will drop on Friday. “I’ve been impatiently waiting to tell you that my brand new single “Patient Zero” will be out on September 25 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) and it’s available to pre-order now on my website for 24 hours,” Swift wrote on Instagram. Her Instagram bio now reads: “And, baby, that’s sh0w business f0r y0u,” which ties back to her ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ era. It isn’t confirmed whether…
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Published on 23/09/2026 – 14:12 GMT+2 Russia hammered Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with drones in daylight attacks on Wednesday, hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly. Two people were killed and 23 were wounded in Kyiv, and palls of black smoke floated above the city following the latest in what have been daily Russian attacks that torment Ukrainian civilians. The drones set off fires and damaged buildings in Kyiv and elsewhere in Ukraine overnight, authorities said. Ukrainian Railways chief Oleksandr Pertsovsky said Kyiv’s rail network was “under fire” and urged “maximum”…
Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani told the United Nations General Assembly that the Gulf was going through “one of the most dangerous phases” in its recent history and that the Iran war was the result of cumulative years of postponing diplomatic solutions. In his speech at the UN headquarters in New York on Tuesday, Sheikh Tamim called for a “regional system of collective security” based on national sovereignty, non-interference and the peaceful resolution of disputes. Such a system could have prevented the current Iran war and without it, he warned, vital facilities could be attacked and important…
The founder of Tera Yatırım, a Turkish brokerage whose fund-management subsidiary reported missed payments last week, will be held in custody pending trial. The arrest of Emre Tezmen, along with four other people, comes as investors in 131 Turkish funds face a wait of up to six months while their holdings are sold, with no certainty yet about how much money they will get back. The crisis began when some funds, including those run by Tera Portföy and Pusula Portföy, struggled to pay people trying to withdraw their savings. They held large stakes in shares that were difficult to sell…
Unblocking EU funds has been a key priority for Péter Magyar, who replaced Orbán as prime minister in May after a seismic election victory. “One of our most important commitments during the campaign was that we were going to unlock the billions of euros that Hungarians deserve,” he said in Brussels shortly after his election. Budapest has made significant progress tackling public procurement concerns, corruption and conflicts of interest since May. “More than a hundred pieces of legislation had to be amended,” a government website read, citing anti-corruption reforms and the country joining the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO). The…
Published on 23/09/2026 – 12:46 GMT+2•Updated 12:51 A prominent former Norwegian diplomat, one of the architects of the Oslo Accords, will apologise for his dealings with late US sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a documentary to be broadcast on Wednesday evening. Terje Rod-Larsen and his wife, fellow diplomat Mona Juul, are currently under investigation in Norway. Juul for “aggravated corruption” and Rod-Larsen for “complicity in aggravated corruption.” They are both known for having played key roles in the secret Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that led to the Oslo Accords of the early 1990s. In particular, police are investigating a loan given by…
Six-year-old Chinese girl Lian Yunzhi has twice broken the women’s world record for solving a 3×3 Rubik’s Cube in just three days. She first set a record with an average time of 4.52 seconds at a competition in Wuhan, before improving it to 4.27 seconds in Guangzhou. Footage from Wuhan shows Lian moving her fingers rapidly through the cube, completing one solve in around 3.54 seconds. She began solving cubes at the age of four and has since mastered more than 1,300 formulas.
Published on 23/09/2026 – 10:29 GMT+2 Alibaba is expanding its overseas data centres to Europe, the Chinese tech giant announced Wednesday at its annual conference. The company said it would “establish its first cloud regions” in Finland, the Netherlands and Turkey, while expanding its data centre footprint in Germany, France, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Hong Kong over the next 12 months. “Today, the total volume of Machine Thinking is less than 3% of all Human Thinking,” said Eddie Wu, CEO of Alibaba Group. He suggested machine thinking could eventually grow to 1,000 times human capacity. “With this in…
Now in its second edition, the Michelin Guide has just unveiled its latest selection of One-, Two- and Three-Key hotels across the globe. As you might expect, those at the higher end of the scale have the price tag to match, with some properties coming in at upwards of €5,000 per night. But that doesn’t mean you have to take out a second mortgage to experience the best hotels around the globe as there are some far more affordable One- and Two-Key options, particularly if you visit in off-season. From the 2026 selection, Michelin Guide has rounded up the best-value…