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Michael Porter Jr. #17 of the Brooklyn Nets shoots the ball during practice and media availability as part of 2025 NBA Global Games China at Venetian Arena on October 9, 2025 in Macao, China. Ryan Stetz | National Basketball Association | Getty ImagesMACAO — The National Basketball Association returns to China for the first of two Macao games on Friday, and the impact extends beyond the preseason.The weekend marks a major milestone for the NBA, as years of rebuilding its relationship with its second-largest market culminate with the Phoenix Suns and Brooklyn Nets facing off in the Venetian Arena here.…

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday said the nation was united in its resolve to eradicate terrorism from the country and the government and the armed forces will take all measures to crush violence perpetrated from across the border. In his opening remarks during the federal cabinet meeting, the prime minister gave details of the recent incidents during which army officers and jawans embraced martyrdom while conducting operations against terrorists of Fitna al-Khawarij. The prime minister said he along with Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir, high ranking military officers and jawans on Wednesday attended the funeral prayers of Lieutenant…

A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.The price surge in bitcoin helped created another 70,000 new crypto millionaires over the past year, adding hundreds of billions of dollars in potential spending to the economy, according to new studies.There are now an estimated 241,700 individuals with crypto holdings worth $1 million or more, up 40% from last year, according to Henley & Partners and New World Wealth. There are 450 crypto centimillionaires, or those with crypto…

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesCampus, a college startup backed by Sam Altman, has hired Meta’s former AI Vice President Jerome Pesenti as its technology head, the company announced Friday.As part of the deal, Campus will buy Pesenti’s artificial intelligence learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount and integrate its personalized AI-generated educational content already used by 1.7 million people.The acquisition advances the company’s “roadmap” by two to three years and…

An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 9, 2025 shows the newly harvested corn at Han Fengxiang’s cooperative in Lishu County, northeast China’s Jilin Province. Han Fengxiang, 43, returned to her hometown in Jilin’s Lishu County to run a cooperative in 2010. Instead of relying on traditional farming methods, Han carried out mechanized farming leveraging large-scale agricultural machinery to enhance the grain output. With years of operation, the cooperative currently boasts 76 sets of large agricultural machinery and manages 1,000 hectares of land with mechanized cultivation.Now, Han Fengxiang has led the cooperative to actively explore new management models. Through live…

ISLAMABAD: Former senator Mushtaq Ahmad, who travelled to Gaza as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, returned to Pakistan on Thursday to a large public reception at the Islamabad International Airport, where supporters and religious party activists greeted him with slogans, flower garlands and applause. Supporters from Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl, Central Muslim League, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan and other groups were among those present at the airport. A convoy escorted Ahmad from the terminal as he waved and addressed the crowd. Speaking to the gathering, he described his trip as a mission to “save Gaza” and alleged that atrocities there have continued…

General view of the Google headquarters in King’s Cross as the tech giant faces a 5 billion pound lawsuit in the UK for allegedly abusing its online search dominance.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesLONDON — Britain’s competition regulator on Friday activated new powers to regulate Google’s search activities, putting the U.S. tech giant in the firing line for further regulatory action.The Competition and Markets Authority confirmed it is designating Google with “strategic market status” for its general search and search advertising services. It follows a near nine-month investigation in which the watchdog concluded that the tech giant has “substantial…

The government has managed to settle a row between Pakistani investor Sheharyar Chishti and Saudi shareholders in K-Electric (KE), as the latter steps down by giving majority stakes to a Saudi investor. In a major boost to Saudi-Pakistan investment relations, Prince Mansour Bin Mohammed Al Saud has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Chishti for the acquisition of a majority shareholding in KES Power Ltd, the parent company that owns 66.4% of K-Electric. Sources told The Express Tribune that Chishti had earlier acquired shares in K-Electric and attempted to take over the company, leading to a legal battle in…

Microchip and Qualcomm logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 10, 2023. Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesQualcomm shares fell on Friday after Chinese regulators said it would investigate the American tech giant’s acquisition of chip firm Autotalks, ramping up tensions between the U.S. and China ahead of key meetings between the country’s leaders this month.Shares were last around 3% lower in premarket trading.China’s State Administration of Market Regulation (SAMR) said that Qualcomm is suspected of violating the country’s anti-monopoly law in regards to its acquisition…

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Thursday held a discussion on the composition of the bench competent to hear petitions against the 26th Constitutional Amendment, as a counsel for the petitioners urged that the case be referred to a bench comprising all 16 SC judges, who formed the full court before the amendment. On Thursday, an eight-member constitutional bench (CB) of the Supreme Court headed by Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan, heard the petitions against the 26th Constitutional Amendment, which brought about sweeping changes in the judiciary, including the formation of CBs in the SC and high courts. During the hearing, senior lawyer Munir…