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President Ilham Aliyev was named the recipient of the Gernika Award for Peace and Reconciliation on Sunday, April 26, 2026, marking Gernika Victims' Remembrance Day.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi flew to Moscow on Monday, April 27, 2026, for talks with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, af...
Mali's military junta confirmed on Sunday, April 26, 2026, that Defence Minister General Sadio Camara died of wounds sustained in a suicide car-bomb attack on his Kati residence the previous day.
Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday, April 26, 2026, as strikes across Ukraine, occupied territory and Russia killed...
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, April 27, 2026, after Saturday night's shooting at the White House Cor...
King Charles III and Queen Camilla begin a four-day state visit to the United States on Monday, April 27, 2026, the first by a British monarch since Queen Eliza...
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed 14 people and wounded 37 on Sunday, April 26, 2026, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry, in one of the heavi...
The 11th Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opens Monday, April 27, 2026, at 10:00 a.
President Donald Trump on Saturday canceled the planned travel of U.
Mali's military junta faced a coordinated nationwide assault on Saturday as armed groups struck the capital Bamako, hit the defense minister's home and reported...
Russia launched one of its largest aerial bombardments of the entire war against Ukraine overnight into Saturday, firing 666 missiles and drones at cities across the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made his first official visit to Azerbaijan since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, signing six bilateral a...
Palestinians in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah voted on Saturday in the first municipal election held inside the Gaza Strip in more than 20 years, while in the West Bank around 1.
Italy marked the 81st anniversary of its liberation from Fascism and Nazi occupation on Saturday, with President Sergio Mattarella laying a wreath at the Altare...
Australians, New Zealanders and Turks gathered at dawn on Saturday at the Anzac Commemorative Site in Gallipoli, Türkiye, to mark the 111th anniversary of the 1...
Manchester City reached the FA Cup final for a third consecutive season on Saturday after a late 2-1 win over Southampton at Wembley Stadium, with Nico Gonzalez...
The 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs delivered a three-game first-round Saturday slate with potential sweeps in two series, headlined by the Carolina Hurricanes and Ph...
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Intel shares rocketed roughly 25 percent in Friday premarket trading after the chipmaker posted its sixth straight quarterly beat and confirmed a partnership wi...
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Islamabad on Friday night for a second round of talks with U.
Japan's national core consumer price index rose 1.
The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire has been extended for three more weeks, President Trump announced after an Oval Office meeting with U.
The World Food Programme, the United Nations and the European Union released their 2026 Global Outlook on Friday, reporting that 318 million people now face cri...
OpenAI released GPT-5.
The NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs deliver a full Friday slate of three Game 3s, headlined by the Utah Mammoth hosting their first playoff home game in franchise history at Delta Center.
Pope Leo XIV wrapped up a history-making 11-day journey through Africa on Thursday with an open-air Mass at a stadium in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, closing out...
An overnight Russian drone attack on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro killed at least three people and wounded more than ten, including two girls aged 9 and...
Drones operated by Ukraine's Security Service struck the Gorky oil pumping station in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast overnight, setting at least one storage ta...
European Union ambassadors backed the bloc's twentieth package of sanctions against Russia, paired with a 90 billion euro loan instrument for Ukraine, after Hun...
American Express delivered a strong first-quarter beat on Thursday, reporting record revenue of 18.
Honeywell posted a mixed first quarter on Thursday, delivering an adjusted earnings per share beat but missing on revenue.
American Airlines reported a record first-quarter revenue of 13.
Wyatt Johnston tipped home a Miro Heiskanen shot 12 minutes and 10 seconds into double overtime on Thursday to give the Dallas Stars a 4-3 win over the Minnesot...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired on three vessels and seized two in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday, just hours after U.
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Google used its Cloud Next 2026 keynote on Wednesday to unveil its most aggressive artificial intelligence infrastructure push yet, splitting its next-generatio...
Tesla beat Wall Street expectations in the first quarter of 2026, reporting stronger revenue, a sharply higher gross margin and a modest earnings-per-share surp...
Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil of the Al Akhbar newspaper was killed Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, becoming the fourth media worker sl...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute on Wednesday to the victims of the 22 April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack, marking one year since the assault tha...
Three first-round NBA playoff games on Wednesday produced a concussion scare for a generational star, a 37-point night for the reigning Most Valuable Player and...
Boeing reported first-quarter revenue of $22.
IBM beat Wall Street expectations on both revenue and earnings per share in the first quarter of 2026, powered by double-digit software growth, a stronger margin profile and a raised dividend.
Russian drone strikes overnight and through Wednesday targeted Odesa's port infrastructure, killed a railway worker in the Zaporizhia region and fed into a fres...
The US-Iran ceasefire entered its most precarious stretch on Tuesday as Vice President JD Vance departed Washington for Islamabad talks, a day after a US Navy d...
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Amazon announced on Monday that it will invest up to an additional $25 billion in Anthropic as part of a sweeping expanded artificial intelligence infrastructur...
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Two of the NBA Playoffs' biggest Monday-night matchups ended in stunning upsets, as the Minnesota Timberwolves and Atlanta Hawks both erased double-digit defici...
Former Bulgarian president Rumen Radev's Progressive Bulgaria coalition won a decisive victory in Sunday's snap parliamentary election, taking roughly 44.
As finance ministers wrapped the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington on Sunday, the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook pro...
The 2026 NBA Playoffs rolled on with a pair of lopsided Game 1 openers on Sunday, as the Boston Celtics and reigning champion Oklahoma City Thunder each dismantled their first-round opponents at home.
Colombian superstar Karol G closed out the 2026 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Sunday night, becoming the first Latina artist ever to headline the...
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Saturday night, April 18, 2026, reversed its one-day-old reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, declaring the waterway c...
A 58-year-old Russian-born man armed with an automatic weapon killed six people and wounded at least 14 in a mass shooting in central Kyiv on Saturday, April 18, 2026.
The 2026 NBA Playoffs first round opened on Saturday, April 18, with four Game 1 matchups and all four home teams winning.
The only life jacket ever worn by a Titanic survivor to come to auction sold for £670,000 ($906,000) on Saturday, April 18, 2026, at Henry Aldridge & Son auctioneers in Devizes, western England.
President Donald Trump on April 16-17 publicly claimed Iran had agreed to abandon its nuclear weapons program and surrender its enriched uranium stockpile, which he described as "nuclear dust.
Russia launched 659 drones and 44 missiles at Ukrainian cities in a 24-hour wave that ended Thursday morning, April 16, killing at least 18 people and wounding 118, according to Ukrainian officials.
The 5th Antalya Diplomacy Forum opened on April 17 with a packed first day.
China's economy expanded 5.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven met in Washington on April 15-17, agreeing it was "urgent" to limit the cost of the Middle...
OpenAI on Friday, April 17, 2026, announced GPT-Rosalind, a specialized reasoning model built for life sciences research, drug discovery, and genomics.
The 5th Antalya Diplomacy Forum opened on April 17 in southern Türkiye, drawing leaders from more than 150 countries under the theme "Mapping Tomorrow, Managing Uncertainties.
President Donald Trump said on April 17 that an agreement with Iran is "very close" and that talks could resume in Islamabad as early as the weekend.
The US Senate on April 16-17 rejected a fourth attempt to constrain President Donald Trump's military authority over Iran, voting 47-52 against a motion to disc...
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.
Coachella 2026 Weekend 2 opened on Friday, April 17 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, running through Sunday, April 19.
The 2026 NBA SoFi Play-In Tournament concludes on Friday, April 17 with two win-or-go-home games for the final playoff seeds in each conference.
The Champions League semifinal pairings are confirmed after a dramatic round of quarterfinal second legs concluded April 14-15.
Pope Leo XIV used a stop on his April 15-18 apostolic journey to Cameroon to denounce "a handful of tyrants" spending billions on war, in remarks widely read as...
Azerbaijani customs data published April 16 initially reported that the country imported $960 of goods from Armenia in March 2026, headlined as the first such direct import.
Gold rose to $4,798.
A 10-day cessation of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon took effect at 5 PM ET (21:00 GMT) on Thursday, April 16, after personal outreach from President Do...
Russia launched one of its largest aerial barrages of 2026 against Ukraine on April 16, firing 659 drones and 44 missiles in an hours-long assault that killed a...
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva arrived in Türkiye on April 16 at the invitation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to partici...
The UN Security Council adopted on April 16 its first-ever presidential statement on cooperation between the United Nations and the Gulf Cooperation Council, fo...
A federal jury in Manhattan found on April 15-16 that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster operated as an illegal monopoly in the concert ticketing marke...
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported Q1 2026 profit of NT$572.
Netflix co-founder and Chairman Reed Hastings will step down from the board at the company's June annual meeting after 29 years, the streaming giant disclosed i...
Netflix reported Q1 2026 revenue of $12.
Israeli flag carrier El Al announced on April 16 that it is expanding its Boeing 787 Dreamliner order in a deal worth roughly $1.
Europa League quarterfinal second legs concluded on April 16 and produced a historic all-English semifinal: Aston Villa will face Nottingham Forest.
Brent crude traded between $94.
US initial jobless claims fell to 207,000 in the week ending April 11, the Labor Department reported on April 16.
The Champions League quarterfinals reach a decisive point on April 14, with Atletico Madrid hosting Barcelona and Liverpool welcoming PSG — both trailing sides needing historic comebacks to advance.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors at the State Department on April 14 for what marks the first direct diplomatic engagement...
A devastating stampede at the Citadelle Laferriere on April 12 killed at least 25 to 30 people and left dozens hospitalized, making it one of the deadliest crowd disasters in Caribbean history.
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI has released its 2026 AI Index report, revealing that Anthropic now leads global AI rankings with an Elo score of 1...
Apple's first foldable iPhone has hit a production snag, with mass manufacturing pushed from June to August 2026 due to engineering validation test challenges.
Drug overdose deaths in the United States have fallen to approximately 71,542 over 12 months ending October 2025, a dramatic drop from the peak of roughly 113,000 in August 2023.
A new PwC survey of 1,217 executives across 25 sectors reveals just 20% of companies are capturing 74% of the total economic value generated by AI.
Global commodity prices have reached a six-year low, but fertilizer costs are bucking the trend with a sharp 26.
The United States Navy has launched a blockade of Iranian ports after peace talks brokered through Pakistan collapsed on April 12.
Oil prices have surged to their highest levels in years as the Iran-related supply disruption continues to roil global markets.
Peter Magyar's Tisza party has won a commanding victory in Hungary's parliamentary election, capturing 53.
Meta has unveiled Muse Spark, the first major AI model developed under the leadership of Alexandr Wang at the newly established Meta Superintelligence Labs.
The 2026 SoFi NBA Play-In Tournament begins tonight with two games that will set the stage for the NBA Playoffs.
A major genome-wide study published in Nature has shed new light on why GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs like Ozempic and tirzepatide work dramatically well for som...
Wall Street's biggest banks are reporting first-quarter earnings this week, with Goldman Sachs leading the way on Monday.
England welcome reigning FIFA Women's World Cup holders Spain to Wembley Stadium tonight for a 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup qualifier in UEFA Group A3.
NATO's Defense Cooperation Directorate held a series of meetings with Azerbaijan's National Defence University from March 31 through April 2, advancing a defens...
April 2026 marks a watershed moment for the AI industry as three major companies released next-generation models almost simultaneously.
Researchers have unveiled an AI approach that could slash energy consumption by up to 100 times while simultaneously improving accuracy.
Hungary heads to the polls on April 12, 2026, in what could be the most consequential election in the country's recent history.
US Vice President JD Vance announced that Washington and Tehran have not reached an agreement as high-stakes nuclear talks stretched into a second day.
US consumer sentiment has plunged 11% to a record low in April 2026, according to the University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers.
The World Bank has warned that economic growth in developing countries of Europe and Central Asia is likely to slow substantially in 2026.
A new 16-year study has revealed that vitamin D levels in midlife may play a bigger role in long-term brain health than previously thought.
The World Health Organization marked World Health Day on April 7, 2026 under the theme "Together for Health.
FIFA has appointed 52 referees, 88 assistant referees, and 30 video assistant referees for the 2026 World Cup.
"The Super Mario Galaxy Movie," which premiered on April 1, has become one of the biggest box office hits of 2026, surpassing all expectations in its opening weeks.
The United States has dramatically escalated its confrontation with Iran after President Donald Trump ordered the US Navy to immediately blockade the Strait of Hormuz.
A ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the Orthodox Easter weekend has collapsed within hours, with both sides accusing each other of thousands of violations.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has announced a €5 billion investment package for 2026, targeting economies destabilized by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
Augusta National is set for a dramatic final round at the 2026 Masters on April 12, with Rory McIlroy and Cameron Young sharing the lead at 11 under par.
The technology sector is experiencing a striking paradox in 2026: artificial intelligence companies are reaching record valuations even as the broader industry...
NASA's Artemis II mission has completed its historic 10-day lunar flyby, with the Orion capsule splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego at 8:07 p.
Vice President JD Vance has traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan for high-stakes negotiations between the United States and Iran.
The US Consumer Price Index rose 0.
A major shift in the artificial intelligence industry has emerged: Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in annualized revenue, reaching $30 billion ARR compared to OpenAI's $25 billion.
The United States Department of Justice has opened a formal antitrust investigation into the National Football League, examining whether the league is forcing e...
One of the largest data thefts in cybersecurity history has reportedly occurred: a hacker group calling itself "FlamingChina" allegedly breached China's Nationa...
The second round of the 2026 Masters Tournament is underway at Augusta National Golf Club, with defending champion Rory McIlroy and Sam Burns entering Friday ti...
Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya has delayed publication of a report showing the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine reduced emergency department visits by 50% and h...
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on April 2 significantly strengthening tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper imports.