Stock markets slid on Wednesday after a volatile day of trading for oil that saw the commodity rise sharply before closing lower after International Energy Agency member states said they were ready to release more strategic reserves.
Thousands of people joined a student march Wednesday in downtown Rio de Janeiro to protest against election favorite Flavio Bolsonaro and the prospect of the far-right's return to power in Brazil, as the campaign for a runoff election swung into action.
Microsoft is pushing a "hybrid intelligence" future with a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips and will cost more than $2,500, the company announced Wednesday.
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Culture
The searing drama "Elsinore" starring Olivia Colman and Andrew Scott in a true story about an actor dying with AIDS preparing to play Hamlet opened the London Film Festival Wednesday.
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More than 1,000 protesters gathered in Turkish opposition stronghold Izmir on Wednesday, angered by the defection of the city's mayor to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AKP.
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Russian strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday killed at least 26 people, including five children who died when a missile slammed into an apartment block in the north of the country as they slept.
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A remote island near Antarctica is no longer home to the world's largest penguin colony as climate-driven changes to ocean food chains likely devastated its once-thriving inhabitants, a new study said Wednesday.
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Gary Lineker has called on Manchester City to "accept whatever punishment" they are given for the good of the game after the club were found guilty of more than 100 breaches of Premier League financial rules.
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Economy
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday insisted on the US right to flex its "national power" in a fiery speech in Athens and said that Europe had to "awaken from its long slumber."
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A convicted killer was awake in a US hospital on Wednesday following a botched execution last week, with her lawyers in court after demanding prison authorities preserve evidence about the case.
The death of a plague laboratory worker in Siberia last week has made global headlines, with Russian media suggesting hundreds were under quarantine and US President Donald Trump expressing concern.
Wednesday's Nobel chemistry prize crowned a series of advances that started in the 19th century and led to breakthroughs for modern pharmaceutical manufacturing.
French luxury giant Louis Vuitton, part of the LVMH conglomerate of France's richest person Bernard Arnault, is to fund the redevelopment of two streets in central Paris around its future Champs-Elysees superstore, the Paris city hall announced Wednesday.
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Sports
Southampton boss Tonda Eckert on Wednesday escaped major punishment for his role in the so-called "Spygate" scandal after the Football Association announced a suspended ban.
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Donald Trump wants to turn his luxury Florida golf course into retreat for future US presidents modeled on the historic Camp David getaway, the White House said Wednesday.
Russia warned Wednesday against "false" information as reports emerged of a second suspected case of plague in Siberia, with Washington and Brussels calling for transparency and neighbouring Mongolia tightening health surveillance.
The mayor of Izmir, Turkey's third city and an opposition stronghold,defected to the ruling AKP Wednesday, in a huge symbolic victory for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The International Energy Agency's member countries stand ready to release additional oil from their strategic reserves if necessary and will prioritise diesel due to tight supplies of the fuel, the head of the IEA said Wednesday.
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