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Nov 12, 2026 - World

Huang’s potential departure would leave a leadership vacuum at the roughly $4tn chipmaker he co-founded, with Nvidia’s shares sliding about 8% in ​after-hours tradingToo big – and too well-connected – to sack? Huang does not enjoy the supercharged voting rights that are par for the course elsewhere – his shareholding is a plain vanilla 3.6%. On the other hand, Nvidia’s board does not appear to have spent much time worrying about succession planning and “key person risk” or other standard concerns of corporate governance wonks outside the US. Continue reading...

Nov 12, 2026 - World

A UN-backed panel of independent experts concluded last year that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. Israel vehemently denies the allegations and has accused the panel of antisemitism.

Nov 12, 2026 - World

Colom beat Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith after race was called eight days after midterm election dayDemocrat Scott Colom wins race for US Senate in MississippiHow Colom won deep-red Mississippi with little help from DemocratsSign up for the US Breaking News emailSome Democrats, out of the 11 who missed the key procedural vote on Tuesday to impeach Pete Hegseth, blamed a traffic jam in Washington DC for their inability to make it to the US Capitol in time.By a vote of 211-204, Republicans referred the articles of impeachment to the judiciary committee – effectively killing the effort to oust Hegseth. Continue reading...

Nov 12, 2026 - World

SS United States, which set transatlantic speed record during maiden voyage in 1952, is sunk off coast of DestinThe historic SS United States has reached the end of its journey at sea, sinking Wednesday off the coast of Destin, Florida, where it will begin a new life underwater as an artificial reef.The nearly 1,000ft American-made vessel, once the fastest ocean liner in the world, was launched in 1952 and made history by setting a transatlantic speed record during its maiden voyage. The ship carried thousands of passengers across the Atlantic over 17 years of operation before being retired in 1969. Continue reading...

Nov 12, 2026 - World

Since the US war on Iran began in February, there have been hundreds of oil spills, posing a ‘generational’ threat to wildlifeThe vast, dark slicks in the strait of Hormuz are visible from space. Throughout October, oil tankers were struck by missiles or sea mines in the waterway and spilled crude into the sea. The pollution has spread across the Gulf, contaminating coastlines and threatening to cause lasting damage to marine ecosystems that are home to dolphins, sea turtles and countless species of fish.Eight months into the war between the US and Iran, one of the world’s busiest oil shipping routes has become a battlefield and the centre of a growing environmental disaster. Continue reading...