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Benchmark U.S. crude oil for September delivery fell 37 cents to $80.35 a barrel Tuesday

The Japanese government says treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be released into the ocean as early as Thursday

This past weekend, an estimated 140,000 diehard K-pop fans took over the Los Angeles Convention Center and adjacent Crypto

Japan says release of treated radioactive water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea to begin as early as Aug. 24. (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported it would begin on that date.)

Netflix is gearing up to bring you a slew of new movies for the remainder of 2023. Here's a rundown of what to expect from August through December. First off, a couple of movies had their release dates shuffled around. «Damsel» and «A Family Affair» won't make it in 2023; they're now slated for 2024. «Spaceman,» «Players,» and «Shirley» are also out of the 2023 lineup. «Lift,» originally set for August 2023, will drop on January 12, 2024.

Investing.com -- Chip designer Arm announces plans for a much-anticipated initial public offering, although the Softbank-owned group stops short of specifying its valuation. Elsewhere, tech stocks remain resilient in the face of surging bond yields as excitement for Nvidia's latest quarterly earnings report grows, while Microsoft restructures its mega-merger with Activision Blizzard to appease U.K. regulators.

Softbank bought a 25% stake in Arm last week that valued it at $64bn, returning money to its Vision Fund and potentially setting a floor for the valuation.

A significant shift is happening in the pool of bidders for BHP’s multibillion-dollar sale of its Queensland coal mines Blackwater and Daunia.

Microsoft has submitted a new proposal to Britain's competition regulator for the acquisition of video gaming giant Activision Blizzard, the watchdog said Tuesday, after a previous version of the deal was blocked. Xbox-owner Microsoft launched a bid for Activision Blizzard early last year, seeking to establish the world's third biggest gaming firm by revenue after China's Tencent and Japan's PlayStation maker Sony. But the $69 billion deal for the purchase of the owner of game titles including Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush has faced significant scrutiny by regulators. Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it has «opened a new phase 1 investigation into a new, restructured deal by Microsoft to buy Activision». It added that the new deal follows confirmation by the regulator that «the original deal would be blocked to protect innovation and choice in cloud gaming». Under the new proposed deal «Microsoft will not acquire cloud rights for existing Activision PC and console games, or for new games released by Activision during the next 15 years (this excludes the European Economic Area),» the CMA said. Instead these rights will be divested to French game developer Ubisoft Entertainment prior to Microsoft's acquisition of Activision, according to the CMA. Ubisoft will in particular have «the ability to supply Activision's gaming content to all cloud gaming service providers (including to Microsoft itself)». «This will allow gamers to access Activision's games in different ways, including through cloud-based multigame subscription services,» Sarah Cardell, the CMA chief executive, said. — Confidence — Cardell added that «this is not a green light». «Our goal has not changed — any future

In a bid to enhance road safety, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in India has introduced a game-changing initiative – the Bharat New Car Assessment Programme (Bharat NCAP). This program is all about evaluating the safety performance of passenger vehicles designed to carry up to eight passengers and not exceed a weight limit of 3.5 tonnes.

Also Read: Explained: Why is the world running to explore 'dark side of the Moon’? XRISM is a joint initiative of NASA and JAXA. The ambitious mission of the two international space agencies will study the universe’s hottest regions, largest structures, and objects with the strongest gravity. Whereas, JAXA's SLIM aims to demonstrate accurate landing techniques by a small explorer.

Indian stock market is expected to open on a flat note on Tuesday following gains in Asian peers amid mixed global cues. The Asian markets traded mostly higher, while the US stocks ended mixed overnight, even as the treasury yields soared to 15-year high levels. On Monday, domestic equity indices, Sensex and Nifty ended with decent gains, snapping a two day losing streak.

«In the near term, we expect the market to trade in a broader range with buying seen at lower levels. Stock specific action is likely to dominate,» Siddhartha Khemka, Head — Retail Research, Motilal Oswal Financial Services. Option data suggests a broader trading range in between 19000 to 19600 zones while an immediate trading range in between 19200 to 19500 zones. Here's breaking down the pre-market actions:STATE OF THE MARKETSGIFT Nifty (Earlier SGX Nifty) signals a muted startGIFT Nifty on the NSE IX traded 3 points, or 0.02 per cent, higher at 19,391.50, signaling that Dalal Street was headed for flat start on Tuesday.

Woodside Energy has posted a 6 per cent increase in first-half profit to a record, buoyed by an increase in oil and gas production to an all-time high after the merger with BHP’s petroleum business in June last year.

(Reuters) — Arm, the British chip designer owned by Japan's SoftBank (TYO:9984) Group, on Monday disclosed its financial details in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering.

Porsche is exploring opportunities to start assembly of its iconic model SUV Cayenne in India amid an “unprecedented surge” in demand, senior industry executives aware of the German luxury carmaker’s plans told ET. Porsche AG board members Detlev von Platen, executive board for sales and marketing, and Matthias Becker, vice president of region overseas and emerging markets, are in Delhi to meet senior government officials, the sources said. They are scheduled to meet officials at Invest India and Niti Aayog on Tuesday. “Porsche is examining possibilities to locally assemble the SUV (Cayenne) to avail of tax benefits and expand its footprint in this fast-growing space,” a senior executive in know said on condition of anonymity. The company’s sales in India grew 64% on year to 779 units in 2022 with Cayenne accounting for almost half of it, the person said. Porsche did not share any information on the development in response to a query from ET. India recently surpassed Japan to become the third largest automobile market in the world. The country imposes 100% import duty on cars with cost, insurance and freight value of more than $40,000 and 70% on cheaper vehicles.

One Piece Chapter 1091 is scheduled to be released on Monday, September 4, 2023, at 12 am (JST). Following Chapter 1090, which marked the series' comeback from the Weekly Shonen Jump break for the Obon holiday, Chapter 1091 will entail an additional one-week hiatus. Regrettably, as of the current moment, there is no confirmed spoiler information available for One Piece Chapter 1091.

aliens exist? Will they respond to the signals sent to them 40 years ago? Some astronomers believe that they may get the answer from aliens on Tuesday, August 22, 2023.

₹26,852 crore) in 2022, India jumped to 11th position in the top markets of direct sellers, as per the World Federation of Direct Selling Association (WFDSA) report. The report which was quoted by the news agency PTI said that in the previous year, India witnessed a jump of 5.4% in retail sales. Moreover, during the last 3 years, India witnessed the highest Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of over 13.3% on a constant dollar basis.

New Delhi: The 27th edition of Exercise Malabar concluded on the East Coast of Australia off Sydney on 21 August, the ministry of defence said. The exercise saw participation of ships, submarines and aircraft from the Indian Navy (IN), Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) and the US Navy (USN).

(Reuters) — Cracks are forming in a global stocks rally, with surging bond yields, rising energy prices and intensified worries over China’s economy among the factors sapping investors’ risk appetite following months of gains in equity markets.