Seoul has recorded its heaviest November snowfall since records began over a century ago in 1907. The South Korean capital was covered with at least 16 cm of snow on Wednesday – beating the … Read more
The Good Brigade | Digitalvision | Getty Images Mortgage rates dropped last week, and homebuyers jumped off the fence. They drove total mortgage demand up 6.3% compared with the previous week, according to the … Read more
Egyptian Armed Forces A video released by the Egyptian authorities showed one survivor being taken to shore on a stretcher An Egyptian diver who helped in the rescue operation after a tourist boat sank … Read more
Getty Images Drake has filed two legal actions in as many days Drake has filed a second legal action against record label Universal Music over Kendrick Lamar’s hit Not Like Us, which was released … Read more
Reuters Jamieson Greer (R) helped strike a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico in Trump’s first term US President-elect Donald Trump says Jamieson Greer will be his trade representative after he takes office … Read more
BBC Handbag designer Sherrill Mosee says Trump’s tariff threats are already having an impact When handbag designer Sherrill Mosee learned that roughly 2,700 purses and backpacks she had ordered from her Chinese manufacturing partner … Read more
Opposition supporters in Pakistan have temporarily called off protests demanding the release of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, a day after marching on central Islamabad. Protesters had vowed not to leave the capital … Read more
Volocopter The VoloCity made demonstration flights in Paris over the summer One of the innovations at this year’s Paris Olympics was supposed to be an electric flying taxi service. Germany’s Volocopter promised its electric-powered, … Read more
Thousands of people have started returning to their homes in southern Lebanon, after a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect at 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT) on Wednesday. The BBC’s Middle East … Read more
The arrest of a Hindu monk in Bangladesh has triggered a fresh war of words with neighbour India over the condition of minorities in the country. Chinmoy Krishna Das, a spokesperson of a Bangladesh-based … Read more