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Pakistanis dominated the javelin throw event, as the Olympic gold medallist successfully defended his titleArshad Nadeem, Salman Iqbal Butt, and Yasir Sultan. PHOTO: Yasir Sultan social media pages Olympic gold medallist javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem and Asian Championship 2023 bronze medallist Yasir Sultan finished first and second at the ongoing Islamic Solidarity Games in Riyadh. Arshad and Yasir were the center of attention in the javelin throw final at the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium as they were coming in with the best record of throws in the season among seven javelin throwers in the competition. Arshad successfully defended his…

Block said Wednesday that it expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens annually for the next three years, reaching about $15.8 billion in 2028. At the payment company’s first investor day event since 2022, Block unveiled a three-year financial outlook. The announcements land as Wall Street has turned skeptical on Block’s prospects, pushing the stock down by more than 30% in 2025, while major indexes have notched solid gains. Block shares were initially halted around the time of the announcement and then jumped 9% when trading resumed. The fresh guidance also comes two weeks after Block reported quarterly results,…

Yann LeCun, known as one of the godfathers of modern artificial intelligence and one of the first AI visionaries to join the company then known as Facebook, is leaving Meta.LuCun said in a LinkedIn post on Wednesday that he plans to create a startup that specializes in a kind of AI technology that researchers have described as world models, analyzing information beyond web data in order to better represent the physical world and its properties. “I am creating a startup company to continue the Advanced Machine Intelligence research program (AMI) I have been pursuing over the last several years with…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk (L) talks with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum at the Kennedy Center on Nov. 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.Win McNamee | Getty ImagesNvidia and xAI said on Wednesday that a large data center facility being built in Saudi Arabia and equipped with hundreds of thousands of Nvidia chips will count Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup as its first customer.Musk and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang were both in attendance at the U.S.-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C.The announcement builds on a partnership from May, when Nvidia said it would provide Saudi Arabia’s Humain…

Chief executive officer at Palo Alto Networks Inc., Nikesh Arora attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles on June 11, 2025, in Paris. Chesnot | Getty ImagesPalo Alto Networks beat Wall Street’s fiscal first-quarter estimates after the bell on Wednesday.The stock fell about 3%.Here’s how the company did versus LSEG estimates:Earnings per share: 93 cents adjusted vs. 89 cents expectedRevenue: $2.47 billion vs. $2.46 billion expectedRevenues grew 16% from $2.1 billion a year ago. Net income fell to $334 million, or 47 cents per share, from $351 million,…

Two-judge bench to hear cases while the appeal against bench decision will be heard by at least three judgesPresident Asif Ali Zardari administers the oath to Justice Aminuddin Khan as Chief Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court during a ceremony at Aiwan-i-Sadr on Friday. Photo: APP The Federal Constitutional Court has decided to adopt the Supreme Court Rules 2025 for the court’s practice and procedure. A meeting with Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan in the chair made the decision, The Express Tribune learned. The full court decided that cases in the FCC will be heard by a bench of at least…

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would love to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, but suggested that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is holding him back.”[I’ll] be honest, I’d love to fire his ass,” Trump said of Powell at the U.S. Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, D.C.Trump urged Bessent to “work on” Powell to quickly lower interest rates — and quipped that the Cabinet secretary’s job depended on it.”The only thing Scott’s blowing it on is the Fed,” Trump said. “The rates are too high, Scott, and if you don’t get it fixed fast, I’m gonna fire your ass.”It…

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani (17) throws a pitch during the MLB game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 16, 2025 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, CA. Brian Rothmuller | Icon Sportswire | Getty ImagesMajor League Baseball officially announced a new three-year media rights agreement with NBC, Netflix and ESPN on Wednesday, foreshadowing the league’s more significant TV deal to come in 2028.The new deal stems from ESPN’s decision to opt out of its “Sunday Night Baseball” package earlier this year. ESPN struck a new deal with MLB, acquiring the rights to MLB.TV…

The 2026 monsoon is projected to bring 22 to 26 per cent more rainfall than this year’s, the NDMA said, preceded by a short winter and intense summer. This isn’t new news, though. In a Public Accounts Committee meeting in August, the NDMA had repeated the same 22 to 26 per cent figure. “There is a significant risk of flooding from snowmelt,” the Chairperson of the National Disaster Management Authority General Inam Haider warned, noting that heat waves will likely trigger increased glacial lake outburst floods. “Pakistan’s more than 7,000 glaciers are melting at rates that have increased by two…

Davide Bonaldo | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesPerplexity on Wednesday announced it will roll out a free agentic shopping product for U.S. users next week, as consumers ramp up spending for the holiday season. “The agentic part is the seamless purchase right from the answer,” Dmitry Shevelenko, Perplexity’s chief business officer, told CNBC in an interview. “Most people want to still do their own research. They want that streamlined and simplified, and so that’s the part that is agentic in this launch.”The artificial intelligence startup has partnered with PayPal ahead of the launch, and users will eventually be able to directly purchase…