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Hormuz Freight Shock May Have Peaked, But Elevated Rates Are Here to Stay
As oil movement out of the Strait of Hormuz approaches pre-war levels, the worst of the freight rate escalations since the start of the conflict in the Middle East may...
Spring 2027 Accessories: Highlights From Paris Fashion Week’s Presentations
PARIS — If runway shows displayed flashy accessories pushing quiet luxury out once and for all, brands presenting their new collections at showrooms here during Paris Fashion Week offered a...
Better Cotton Initiative Touts Gains in Global Impact Report
The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) said that the farmers who’ve adopted their BCI Standard have made measurable progress in both sustainability and income during their time as members of the...
The Only Fashion & Beauty Brands You Should Be Shopping During Amazon’s October Prime Day
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, WWD may receive an affiliate commission. In this article View More October Prime Day 2026,...
World
What to Read if You Loved “East of Eden”
Of the sixteen novels that John Steinbeck published before his death, in 1968, “East of Eden” was his favorite. “I think everything else I have written has been, in a...
How “Edinburgh” Reimagines Time to Tell a Story of Trauma
But Chee’s first-person, present-tense narration differs from most in being, in a seeming paradox, retrospective. This isn’t exactly an innovation: the modernists experimented with it, and it’s not uncommon in...
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MacKenzie Scott’s Substack Novel Can’t Escape the Amazon Juggernaut
The novel is set in an America partitioned into two factions: the Dakota Membership, presumably made up of North and South Dakota, and Still United, an agglomeration of other states...
Peter de Sève’s “Lapdog”
For the cover of the October 12, 2026, issue, the artist Peter de Sève depicts a scene around Central Park’s reservoir, a cherished spot in a city where access to...
Business
Malaysian chip firm SQAI said to plan US$73 million IPO in early 2027
Published Thu, Oct 8, 2026 · 01:08 PM[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian semiconductor firm SQ Advanced Interconnect (SQAI) is considering raising about RM 300 million (US$73 million) in an initial public offering...
Govt counters Musk, says satellite clearance process non-discriminatory
India’s communications ministry on Thursday said it followed a “fair and non-discriminatory” authorisation framework for all telecommunication services, including satellite communication services, and that preferential clearance of any single operator...
Hormuz Freight Shock May Have Peaked, But Elevated Rates Are Here to Stay
As oil movement out of the Strait of Hormuz approaches pre-war levels, the worst of the freight rate escalations since the start of the conflict in the Middle East may...
Oil falls with focus on Hormuz vessel attacks and Mideast flows
Brent settles lower, near US$100 a barrel, as West Texas Intermediate dips 1.3% to around US$88Published Thu, Oct 8, 2026 · 06:09 AM[TOKYO] Oil fell in choppy trading as traders...
News
Trump Hit With Lawsuit for Using Taxpayer Money to Air Propaganda
Trump had asked the agency to remove his information earlier this year, but the office told the Tampa Bay Times that it did not review whether the request was actually...
Florida Does Trump a Favor He Doesn’t Actually Qualify For
Trump had asked the agency to remove his information earlier this year, but the office told the Tampa Bay Times that it did not review whether the request was actually...
USPS Hires Shady Armed Security Service Weeks Before Midterms
Mark Ungar, a political science professor at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice in New York who has researched private security firms such as Prosegur, suggested to Raw Story...
Trump Spirals into Crazed Fury as GOP Pollsters Deliver Very Bad News
Donald Trump unleashed a long, crazed tirade this week about Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina. He attacked her with the vicious slur “tranny” not once...
Beauty
Much needed policy adjustment
Importantly, as was indicated by the central bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra, it is not only the headline inflation that is now being looked at, but core inflation is also under...
Hawkish hike, but measured path ahead
The six-member MPC voted unanimously for the hike, while the change in stance was carried by a 4-2 vote. The RBI rarely describes its stance as “calibrated tightening”. The usual...
University of Colorado Denver gets UGC nod to set up campus in Hyderabad
University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) has said it has received a letter of intent from the UGC to set up a new campus in Hyderabad, making it the first...
Nobody knows who is running Iran, says Trump as war enters eighth month
US President Donald Trump (Photo:PTI)2 min read Last Updated : Oct 07 2026 | 8:37 AM ISTUS President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that nobody knew who was running Iran...
Celebrity
Govt counters Musk, says satellite clearance process non-discriminatory
India’s communications ministry on Thursday said it followed a “fair and non-discriminatory” authorisation framework for all telecommunication services, including satellite communication services, and that preferential clearance of any single operator...
Festival breather: UPI merchant fee may be deferred till January 1
Such deferment would keep UPI payments free for merchants through the festival season, which runs until Christmas, amid pushback from retail traders’ associations. The MDR is expected to take effect...
Airline safety grounded in terra firma
In fact, only a rare trifecta of good fortune ensured that there were no fatalities on board the flydubai flight from Dubai to Israel, which resulted from the depredations of...
Entertain people again: CJI to Rajpal Yadav as SC hears cheque-bounce case
Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Wednesday, during a hearing in a long-running cheque-bounce case against actor Rajpal Yadav, said the actor can make a good movie and “entertain...
Culture
Brand Extension Lessons From Kraft’s Cheesy Ramen
Kraft Mac & Cheese is stepping outside the pasta aisle for the first time in nearly 20 years. The brand announced Cheesy Ramen on October 6, a new line of...
Demo Day Lessons From PearX’s Latest Startup Class
Investors got a fresh look at early-stage AI this week, as TechCrunch highlighted five startups from the latest PearX demo day. PearX is the accelerator run by Pear VC, and...
US$7 trillion data-centre boom is creating gaps in insurance cover in Apac: report
There are interconnected and concentrated risks in power, construction, operations, cybersecurity and downtime[SINGAPORE] Insuring the Asia-Pacific’s rapidly expanding data-centre sector is becoming increasingly challenging.Global insurance broker Howden identifies the wide...
S$7 billion wiped off OCBC value as shares slide 5.2% in heavy trade
[SINGAPORE] Shares of OCBC dropped as much as 5.2 per cent in intraday trading on Wednesday (Oct 7). As at 11.11 am, the counter was down 5.2 per cent or...
Style
Bold Marketing Beats Caution, New Study Finds
Playing it safe is not as safe as it looks, according to a new study from FleishmanHillard and Contagious. The research, released October 6 in New York, argues that caution...
Teen Entrepreneur Zain Javaid Raises $11M for Ghost
A 19-year-old founder just raised $11 million in seed funding for Ghost, a startup that sells a $3,499 computer built to run personal AI agents. Andreessen Horowitz led the round,...
“Fear Fokol” Looks Inside the Private-Security Forces That Patrol Johannesburg
Tuva Björk’s short documentary opens with a private-security officer offering a litany of the weapons he has with him in his car, recounted with a pride that borders on glee....
How Test Engineers Decide What Counts as Good Enough
The statistical reasoning is sound, even if the ingestion test’s verisimilitude is a little hand-wavy. Bird populations change; migratory patterns, or what experts call “waves of biomass,” are fickle. In...
Fashion
Malaysian chip firm SQAI said to plan US$73 million IPO in early 2027
Published Thu, Oct 8, 2026 · 01:08 PM[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian semiconductor firm SQ Advanced Interconnect (SQAI) is considering raising about RM 300 million (US$73 million) in an initial public offering...
Oil falls with focus on Hormuz vessel attacks and Mideast flows
Brent settles lower, near US$100 a barrel, as West Texas Intermediate dips 1.3% to around US$88Published Thu, Oct 8, 2026 · 06:09 AM[TOKYO] Oil fell in choppy trading as traders...
Dodgers, Angels receive surprising report cards from the Automated Ball-Strike system’s first season
The Dodgers were horrible. The Angels were great. No, that’s not a dispatch from topsy-turvy land. It’s their report cards following the first season Major League Baseball has utilized the...
ChatGPT’s teen safeguards failed to alert parents during suicide conversations, report finds
The guardrails OpenAI put in place to protect teens don’t seem to be working, according to a new report. Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute rated ChatGPT for Teens...
South Korean investors suffer US$1.7 billion losses from leveraged ETFs
Published Wed, Oct 7, 2026 · 12:56 PM[SEOUL] Retail investors have suffered an estimated 2.3 trillion won (US$1.7 billion) in cumulative losses from leveraged single-stock exchange-traded products tracking South Korea’s...
‘Legitimate concern’: JPMorgan CEO Dimon says Anthropic’s Mythos pushed cyber risk up 10 times
Published Wed, Oct 7, 2026 · 06:54 AM[NEW YORK] Anthropic’s Mythos artificial intelligence model has dramatically increased global cybersecurity risks, JPMorgan Chase chief executive officer Jamie Dimon said.Risks from AI...