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Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to new record highs in 2025, locking in climate impacts that will persist for centuries to come, the United Nations said Tuesday.

The leaders of Norway and Finland held a "frank and substantive" phone conversation with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, the first call between pro-Ukrainian European leaders and the Russian president in more than a year.

중국 음료업체 ‘둥펑음료’는 마오쩌둥 전 중국 국가주석을 모욕했다는 논란에 휩싸인 프랑스 축구 스타 음바페와의 광고 계약을 해지하겠다고 27일 발표했다. 음바페의 얼굴이 들어간 둥펑음료 제품이 진열된 모습.

Elena Rybakina said Tuesday that she had "definitely got more attention" since becoming world number one as she looks to clinch the year-end top ranking this week in Japan.

Naomi Osaka paid tribute to her Japanese heritage with a crane pattern outfit before beating Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) in her tournament opener in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Tech firms rallied Tuesday following a healthy run-up on Wall Street as traders welcomed AI titan Anthropic's IPO filing that revived optimism over the sector.

Cristiano Ronaldo is in Portugal's preliminary squad for next month's Nations League matches, opening the door to an international return after his fallout with coach Jorge Jesus, a federation source told AFP on Tuesday.

Harry Kane said Tuesday that his Ballon d'Or triumph "feels like a dream" as tributes poured in for the first English winner of the award in a generation.

Norway's main media organisations said Tuesday they had taken legal action to block Meta from enforcing new user terms which they claim threaten their rights to their journalistic content.

HSBC profits jumped in the third quarter thanks to higher interest rates and lower costs, the bank giant said Tuesday, but its share price slid as the results undershot investor expectations.

Bayern Munich assistant coach Aaron Danks on Tuesday praised Harry Kane after his Ballon d'Or win, saying the striker will already be focused on scoring his "next goal".

After starting the regular season with six weeks of chaos and disappointment, the Los Angeles Rams appeared to turn a corner in Las Vegas.

Shane Steichen still believes in quarterback Daniel Jones.

Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday became the third big German carmaker to cut its outlook for the year on tough conditions in China, underlining the scale of the crisis facing the industry.

Dilshan Madushanka grabbed a career best five wicket haul to help dismiss Pakistan for a paltry 110 in Lahore on Tuesday, raising Sri Lanka's chances of qualifying for the tri-series final.

King Charles III begins a delicate tour of the Caribbean Tuesday, overshadowed by calls to apologise for the slave trade and pay reparations for what he has called the "darkest days" of British history.

An aggressive partnership by Abhishek Sharma and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi propelled India to a six-wicket win and a series victory over New Zealand in Wellington on Tuesday.

Ahead of the expansion of the Jammu and Kashmir council of ministers headed by Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday all the current ministers in the Union Territory resigned.

Finland's president and Norway's prime minister held a "frank and substantive" discussion with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday about efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the Nordic leaders said.

Europe remained a stable destination for investment despite political turbulence at home and elsewhere, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Tuesday, kicking off a three-nation Asian tour aimed at deepening ties beyond China.

S&P 500, Nasdaq, Dow Jones will look to rebound on Monday as US stock market investors face a pivotal week, with corporate earnings reports led by major AI players and a Federal Reserve meeting posing critical tests for a suddenly shaky market rally. Wall Street's main indexes closed lower on Friday even as technology shares steadied somewhat to end a turbulent week for the market-driving AI trade, and investors look

Kylian Mbappe was dropped on Tuesday by major Chinese brands after a video circulated of the Real Madrid and France superstar apparently joking about Mao Zedong.

A local truce between Ukraine and Russia aimed at allowing humanitarian aid into the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky appears to be tentatively holding, hours after Russia fired missiles on a university campus in Kyiv.

Indian authorities ordered nearly 100,000 people to evacuate homes in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, ahead of a severe cyclone the national weather office expects to make landfall by Wednesday.

The Uttar Pradesh Police has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the collision involving vehicles accompanying Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s convoy on the Purvanchal Expressway on Monday, as he travelled to Sultanpur to appear in a defamation case.

The Netherlands will not participate in next year's Eurovision Song Contest, its broadcaster NPO said Tuesday, citing "sensitivities" over Israel's participation.

In a Diwali bonanza, the Delhi government said around 4,000 public health workers employed by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will receive a minimum monthly salary of ₹18,000, along with dearness allowance (DA), under the principle of equal pay for equal work.

Nearly half of domestic coal-based (DCB) power plants have critically low coal stocks, highlighting supply-side pressures against a backdrop of sustained electricity demand.

Shares of Ather Energy climbed nearly 14% to ₹1,575 apiece on Monday after the electric two-wheeler maker recorded a consolidated net profit for the September quarter, against a loss a year earlier, and announced plans to expand annual production capacity by 2. 25 lakh units to meet rising demand.

The aggressive mobilisation of Foreign Currency Non-Resident Bank [FCNR(B)] deposits increasingly weighed on bank margins during the September quarter, with private lenders bearing a disproportionate impact owing to their larger participation in the RBI’s FCNR(B) drive.

Investments in physically backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) turned net negative after 13 weeks last week, with the yellow metal losing nearly four%, data from the World Gold Council (WGC) showed.

Tata Trusts Chairman Noel Tata requested the record of the Tata Sons board meeting on September 17, which approved N Chandrasekaran as Chairman for a third term, and has also questioned his family’s business relations with the TVS Group, headed by fellow board member Venu Srinivasan.