Bank of England set to hold interest rate
The Bank of England was expected Thursday to keep its interest rate on hold for a second successive meeting, as Britain battles stubbornly high inflation and weak economic growth.
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Five not-so-famous things about The Beatles
One of the world's most famous music bands, The Beatles, are back 53 years after they broke up with a "new" record to be released Thursday.
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New Beatles single 'Now and Then' set for release
A new Beatles song produced with a little help from artificial intelligence and including the vocals of John Lennon will be released on Thursday, more than four decades after it was originally recorded as a demo.
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Flags at half-mast in Beijing as China mourns late premier
Flags flew at half-mast in Beijing on Thursday as China prepared for the funeral of late ex-premier Li Keqiang, a reform-minded bureaucrat who was once tipped as the country's future leader but was eclipsed by Xi Jinping.
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Italy's dormant bobsleigh track ready for troubled 2026 Winter Olympics
The Cesena Torinese bobsleigh track has been dormant for over a decade since being built for the 2006 Winter Olympics but is ready to come to the aid of the troubled Milan-Cortina edition in just under two years' time.
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Hernandez double fires Columbus in 2-0 MLS playoff win
Cucho Hernandez scored twice as Columbus Crew defeated Atlanta United 2-0 in the opening game of their best-of-three MLS Eastern Conference playoff series on Wednesday.
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Australian woman arrested in lethal mushroom mystery
Australian police on Thursday arrested the woman at the centre of a mushroom meal mystery that left three people dead and a local preacher fighting for his life.
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Biden v Trump, the unwanted rematch for America’s soul
While the stakes could hardly be higher for American democracy, voters are increasingly turned off by the apparently inevitable rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
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'Brazilian Warren Buffett' rises from poverty to stock stardom
A former shoeshine boy now worth hundreds of millions of dollars, Luiz Barsi has been called the "Brazilian Warren Buffet" for his ultrasharp investing acumen.
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Democracy worldwide trending downwards: report
Nearly half the world's countries are seeing the level of democracy decline, an international think tank said Thursday.
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