Murdoch’s REA Group ends chase for UK’s Rightmove

Murdoch’s REA Group ends chase for UK’s Rightmove

Rupert Murdoch at his annual party at Spencer House, St James’ Place in London. Picture date: Thursday June 22, 2023. Victoria Jones | Pa Images | Getty Images LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s Australian property firm REA Group said Monday it would no longer seek to buy the U.K.’s Rightmove after the property portal rejected a fourth … Read more

Truckers, rails scrambling to move billions in cargo

Truckers, rails scrambling to move billions in cargo

Shipping containers stacked at a storage yard outside of the APM Terminals yard at the Port of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama, US, on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024. Micah Green | Bloomberg | Getty Images With a potential strike at ports up and down the East Coast and along the Gulf Coast set to begin after … Read more

Iran’s response to Israel is a choice between revenge and survival

Iran’s response to Israel is a choice between revenge and survival

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei waves before voting in the country’s presidential election, in Tehran, Iran July 5, 2024.  Office Of The Iranian Supreme Le | Via Reuters Iran’s powerful proxy network across the Middle East is being dealt blow after blow from Israel, which has dramatically escalated fighting with Lebanese militia group Hezbollah … Read more

Laurene Powell Jobs bets on AI startups

Laurene Powell Jobs bets on AI startups

Laurene Powell Jobs speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Steve Jennings A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. News that Laurene Powell … Read more

Group of men smash bus window, ambush Sydney driver in terrifying Little Bay bus attack

Group of men smash bus window, ambush Sydney driver in terrifying Little Bay bus attack

A driver in an empty bus travelling through Sydney’s eastern suburbs was ambushed by a group of men who smashed his window and threatened him just before dawn on Monday. The five males ran out from behind some bushes and stood in the middle of Anzac Pde, near Henry Ln, at Little Bay, forcing the … Read more

German inflation drops to 1.8% in September, below expectations

German inflation drops to 1.8% in September, below expectations

Shoppers at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin, Germany, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. Krisztian Bocsi | Bloomberg | Getty Images The harmonized German consumer price index eased to 1.8% in September, coming in lower than expected, preliminary data from the country’s statistics office Destatis showed on Monday. The September harmonized CPI figure had been forecast to come … Read more

Far-right party projected to win Austria national election – National

Far-right party projected to win Austria national election – National

The far-right Freedom Party had a lead over the governing conservatives in Austria’s election on Sunday and was well-placed for its first win in a national parliamentary vote, a projection showed. But its chances of governing were unclear. The projection for ORF public television, based on partial counting, put support for the Freedom Party at … Read more

Hurricane Helene death toll nears 100

Hurricane Helene death toll nears 100

PERRY, Fla. – North Carolina officials pledged to get more water and other supplies to flood-stricken areas by Monday after Hurricane Helene left a trail of destruction across the U.S. Southeast and the death toll from the storm rose to nearly 100. At least 91 people across several states were killed. A North Carolina county … Read more

Why The Vance-Walz Debate Boils Down To Contrasting Versions Of Masculinity

Why The Vance-Walz Debate Boils Down To Contrasting Versions Of Masculinity

Washington: Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance and Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential pick Tim Walz — set to debate each other Tuesday — embody different versions of masculinity in an election that is dividing American men and women like never before. Vance, on the Republican ticket, has a conservative definition of family. The Ohio senator has … Read more