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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, 54, was in the water with his young daughter who was pulled to safety by a surfer when he got into difficulty.

The New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq have applied for regulatory permission to extend their trading hours to 22 and 24 hours daily, respectively. Nasdaq expects to implement round-the-clock trading from the second half of 2026. The London Stock Exchange is considering similar extensions, according to Financial Times. Several retail brokers already facilitate overnight trading through alternative platforms and "dark pools" -- off-exchange venues that operate during non-standard hours. Robinhood began offering all-night trading for select stocks in May 2023, while Charles Schwab announced plans to expand its overnight trading service to 1,100 securities this July. Economist argues that 24/7 trading is a bad idea. The publication writes: The problem with such trading is that price discovery can be fraught with difficulty. In fact, this is partly why institutional investors like dark pools: their lighter reporting requirements, compared with exchanges, allow big orders to be executed without alerting the wider market beforehand, which would move the price. Professionals taking the other side of these trades accept the risks and know how to navigate them. Amateurs, getting a worse price than they might have done in daylight, often do not. The witching hours are currently when all manner of dull, but vital, post-trade processes take place, from settlement and valuation to the reconciliation of mistakes. Once trading is non-stop, there will be no pause for the financial plumbing to clear. Nor for traders to rest in the knowledge that the market is resting with them, so there is no need to refresh their screens. In today's always-on world, stock exchanges' limited opening hours might seem old-fashioned. But get ready to miss them once they're gone.

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Viewers were left in stitches as they spotted ITV News reporter Sara O'Kane swat a fly live on-air during Wednesday night's programme.

From scams to violence, the crimes extend beyond the digital realm

A subset of an online group that recruits children and teens for contract shootings, kidnappings, and other real-life violent crimes poses a growing threat to youth, according to the FBI.…

Jack Osbourne has recalled his bizarre introduction to the house that eventually became his family home and the backdrop for iconic MTV reality show, The Osbournes.

The Macrons accused the right-wing podcaster of publishing 'outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions' that fuelled a 'campaign of global humiliation'

Footage captured the horrifying moment in which the plane smashed into the road in Italy's Brescia province and exploded into a fireball.

When Ozzy Osbourne appeared on stage earlier this month, for what would be his final ever show, it marked the most majestic of rock 'n' roll send-offs for the Prince of Darkness.

A man from Australia suffering from an aggressive form of lung cancer had the bones in a finger and toe 'completely replaced' with even more tumors, doctors wrote in a medical journal.

A perfect pensions storm is heading our way. That is the frightening conclusion to be drawn from the Government's announcement on Monday.

The actor, 53, has undergone a superhuman transformation as he steps into the Marvel universe as villian Mephisto for his latest role.

No screenshots for you!

In an effort to protect user privacy, Brave browser 1.81 will prevent Microsoft Recall from screenshotting it by default.…

Klaus Schwab, 87, the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is alleged to have asked staff to lower the UK's standing in a table ranking countries' economic productivity.

The 32 acres of mixed ancient and semi-natural woodland fronts on to the the lake and estate agents have described the sale as a 'once in a lifetime opportunity'.

Internet outages spiked during the second quarter of 2025, driven by government-mandated shutdowns, infrastructure failures, and technical glitches, according to Cloudflare's quarterly disruption report. Government restrictions returned after a quiet first quarter, with Libya, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Panama imposing internet cutoffs for reasons ranging from protest suppression to exam security. A massive power outage on April 28 knocked Spain's internet traffic down 80% and Portugal's by 90%, with service restored around 1 a.m. the following day. Cable damage caused complete outages for Digicel in Haiti and a 90-minute disruption for Airtel in Malawi. Several major outages went unexplained, including an eight-hour blackout at SkyCable in the Philippines and a nationwide outage at Thai provider TrueMove H, with companies providing no official explanations for the service failures.

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AI-nxiety is real, and it's causing some bizarre behavior

ai-pocalypse  If you're one of those people who pretend to use AI at work, then worry not: there are likely another 15 of you per hundred employees in your company. That's the finding of a survey from nearshoring tech recruitment company Howdy.com.…

A police helicopter was seen circling over parts of Braintree and surrounding villages on Wednesday evening.

Huge models are error-prone and expensive

Enterprise CIOs have been mesmerized by GenAI claims of autonomous agents and systems that can figure anything out. But the complexity that such large models deliver is also fueling errors, hallucinations, and spiraling bills.…

Police said they were 'worried' about the man after he went missing on Wednesday evening (July 23)

The migrant won an appeal at the immigration court after saying he can't return to Iraq because of a divorce he went through in his home country.