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An aerial view of the skyline from the Pirellone during the conference Disegniamo il futuro dell’abitare per costruire il domani della Lombardia on regional housing policies at Palazzo Pirelli in Milan, Italy, on January 20, 2025.Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesU.S. President Donald Trump’s revamp of the H-1B visa program has rekindled the scramble to hire top global talent, with some touting Europe’s work-life balance as a key competitive advantage.The Trump administration recently raised the H-1B visa application fee to $100,000, seeking to protect American jobs and prevent “abuse” of the program that it says has undermined economic and national security.The surprise…

Visitors taste food made from perilla at the Chinese farmers’ harvest festival celebrations in Huanan County, Jiamusi City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Sept. 23, 2025. The Chinese farmers’ harvest festival is the first national festival created specifically for the country’s farmers. Starting in 2018, the festival coincides with the Autumnal Equinox each year, which is one of the 24 solar terms of the Chinese lunisolar calendar and usually falls between Sept. 22 and 24 during the country’s agricultural harvest season. (Xinhua/Wang Jianwei)Staff of a Perilla food product enterprise introduce their products at the Chinese farmers’ harvest festival celebrations in Huanan…

LAHORE: With the PPP keeping silent on PML-N salvos—fearing retribution from their own chairman, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari—Punjab Information Minister Azma Bukhari took another swipe at the PPP in Sindh, stating that despite ruling the province for a long time, the party had pushed Sindh and Karachi into “dark ages”. Strangely, while PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto has restrained his party in Punjab from criticizing Maryam Nawaz and her government, according to several party leaders that The Express Tribune spoke to, the PML-N leadership in Punjab does not appear to share the same sentiment. Without naming Bilawal Bhutto, Punjab Information Minister Azma…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to place $100,000 fees on H-1B visa applications will disproportionately harm America’s startup space, founders and venture capitalists told CNBC this week.H-1B visas — which allow companies to temporarily hire foreign workers in skilled occupations such as IT, healthcare and engineering — were already difficult to secure for U.S. startups, due to limited annual quotas. Over the past year, Desmond Lim, CEO and co-founder of HR, payroll and hiring tech platform Workstream, said all of his startup’s H1-B applications had been rejected — something he called “very disappointing” as he tries to secure more top engineering talent.The…

Tom Brady.Mike Ehrmann | Getty Images Sport | Getty ImagesTom Brady struck a partnership with robotic massage device maker Aescape to provide the company with exclusive rights to his recovery and longevity protocols, Aescape announced on Tuesday.As part of the deal Brady has been given the title of chief innovation officer for the company. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.Brady’s business partner Alex Spiro will also join Aescape, as a strategic advisor. They will support both product development and Aescape’s growth into capital markets, the company said.Brady, a 7-time Super Bowl champion, played in the NFL until age 45…

ISLAMABAD: The National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) has confirmed a new case of polio in Hyderabad district of Sindh, bringing the total number of polio cases reported across Pakistan to 27 in 2025. According to the NEOC, Sindh has reported seven cases so far this year, highlighting ongoing challenges in eradicating the crippling virus from the province. “Polio is an incurable disease that can cause lifelong disability,” the NEOC said in a statement, urging parents to ensure their children receive polio drops during every vaccination campaign. The next nationwide polio vaccination drive will be held from October 13 to 19,…

Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesAmazon and the Federal Trade Commission are squaring off in a long-awaited trial over whether the company duped users into paying for Prime memberships.The lawsuit, filed by the FTC in June 2023 under the Biden administration, alleges that Amazon deceived tens of millions of customers into signing up for its Prime subscription program and sabotaged their attempts to cancel it. Amazon has denied any wrongdoing.The trial is being held in a federal court in Seattle, Amazon’s backyard. Jury selection began Monday and opening arguments are slated for Tuesday, with the trial expected to last about…

Runner Muhammad Dwedar to return to train in Germany after finishing second to last overall in Tokyo. Three months before the World Athletics Championships, Muhammad Dwedar was training for the 800-metre race on the streets in Jericho, West Bank. His mother would have preferred he stayed indoors, lest he become another Palestinian athlete victim to Israeli raids or killing, but there were no sports facilities to train at, much less the world-class technology his competitors had. All he had was a dream to represent Palestine and put his country on the global sporting map. It was bittersweet for him when…

While close to 150 world leaders prepared to descend on Manhattan for the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. Secret Service was quietly dismantling a massive hidden telecom network across the New York area — a system investigators say could have crippled cell towers, jammed 911 calls and flooded networks with chaos at the very moment the city was most vulnerable.The cache, made up of more than 300 SIM servers packed with over 100,000 SIM cards and clustered within 35 miles of the United Nations, represents one of the most sweeping communications threats uncovered on U.S. soil. Investigators warn the system…

Edward Woodford, founder and CEO of crypto infrastructure firm zerohash.Courtesy: zerohashCrypto infrastructure startup Zerohash has raised $104 million in funding with backing from financial firms including Morgan Stanley and SoFi, CNBC has learned.The Series D round was led by Interactive Brokers, the global automated trading firm, and includes strategic investors who are also clients of Zerohash, founder and CEO Edward Woodford told CNBC in an interview. The company is valued at $1 billion, he said.”We wanted to raise from the largest, most trusted brands in the world and have that be the bridge into this new technology,” he said.Funds managed…