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A North Korean group has been blamed for the $6.3bn Binance hack, the biggest ever crypto heist.
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A North Korean group has been blamed for the $6.3bn Binance hack, the biggest ever crypto heist.
Live: "elite North Korean hackers" have been blamed for the $6.3bn Binance heist.
China has expelled a record number from the Communist party amid Xi's intensified purges of top officials.
The Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta is to close.
Ukraine war briefing: outrage in Europe after a Russian drone killed 14 on a rail platform in Dnipro.
Seven oil tankers carrying 288,000 tonnes of Russian diesel are sailing towards the US.
The El Nino-driven drought in Papua New Guinea is a "national crisis" as rivers dry up and local farms fail.
The Sudanese diaspora and human rights groups have denounced the UAE's nominee for a UN top job.
The Houthis are sending Taiz "back to the stone age", the governor of the besieged Yemeni city says.
Vivek Ramaswamy has discontinued an attack ad that prompted a wave of revulsion.
Analysis: are Trump's global actions, from Ukraine to Iran, going to hurt him in the elections?
The climate academic Andreas Malm has been barred from entering the UK.
Patrick Stewart, the Star Trek actor and acclaimed thespian, has died aged 86.
Peter Bradshaw: Patrick Stewart brought gravitas and complexity to the screen, from Star Trek to X-Men.
Ben Child: on Star Trek, Patrick Stewart could make anyone feel hopeful for humanity.
Gallery: Patrick Stewart - a life in pictures.
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A new body is to examine options for Irish unity, the Taoiseach says.
"Lots of deep thought has to go into this": the Taoiseach steps up research on Irish unity.
"That okey-doke will not work this time": Obama took up the mic to duel with a tired-sounding Trump.
"They are killing our community": more than 40 homes face demolition for the Galway ring road.
More than 100 staff have been laid off at Liberty Recycling as gardai examine links to Africa.
Pat Kenny injects a touch of venom into his take on Charles Haughey's kickback-funded lifestyle.
Public sector pay talks are edging closer, but hopes of a breakthrough have proved premature.
Analysis: how can the public sector pay deal get over the line?
Justine McCarthy: a soldier explains his rationale for participating in genocide - "it's so insanely fun".
Breaking down the bill: where does the money you pay for electricity actually go?
"Some people lose fingers or an entire hand": a warning over illegal fireworks being sold online to children.
Dublin pizza slice taste test: NY, Detroit, Italian-style - what tastes best?
Mbappe, Mao and the cost of offending China.
Joanne McNally played a blinder on The Celebrity Traitors - here are 15 of her best lines.
A woman found her husband bleeding on the ground after going out to investigate a noise, a trial heard.
Fine Gael grassroots are seeking an ardfheis motion to break with the "woke left".
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya: from Chernobyl child to president-elect of Belarus.
A security guard who protected Nigel Farage on the campaign trail was facing a rape charge.
A woman (87) has pleaded guilty to careless driving causing the death of a mother of five.
A new derelict buildings website lists 2,700 residential properties countrywide.
Former Ireland rugby star Shane Horgan has had a home repossession case struck out.
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The Apprentice Boys rejected a Lower Ormeau "alternative route", the residents group says.
Analysis: Gavin Robinson huffs and puffs but won't blow the house down.
A DUP man's claims that an IRA member "deserved to be shot dead" have been branded "vitriolic and dehumanising" by the family.
Chris Donnelly: Drumcree exposes the BBC's unresolved problem with impartiality.
The Falls Road has reopened following a "serious collision".
"We want to give back": Co Armagh sisters diagnosed with cancer six weeks apart look to the future.
A Stormont department has cut GBP430,000 from heating, electricity and running costs with its work from home policy.
"We're here, and we're part of what's being built for the future": is tech the new Irish America?
From folklore to flag waving, trad musician Clare Sands is harnessing the power of stories from our past to highlight pressing present-day concerns.
Sarah Creighton: Alliance lost its voice on Drumcree, and it's likely to cost them.
A Belfast-headquartered fintech company is doubling its New York office space, with transatlantic relationships key.
"One of the most memorable moments of my stand-up career": Ciaran Bartlett on ill health, Bill Burr and his Belfast comedy comeback.
"It's connecting with people": Skintown director Kieron J Walsh on awards success, the Irish premiere at Belfast Film Festival and being snubbed by Van Morrison.
Accept there is no going back over contentious parading - The Irish News view.
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Comment: the DUP's double trouble - Carla Lockhart will now be a nightmare for a party leadership squeezed on both sides.
"My daddy is dead": remembering the Belfast Telegraph delivery drivers murdered 50 years ago.
Councillors have clashed over a UK Town of Culture bid after a protest: "we don't want a local town tearing itself apart".
Annual house price growth has slowed to its weakest since January 2024.
A NatWest efficiency drive has resulted in job cuts and GBP420m of cost savings.
Carla Lockhart is set to quit the DUP and leave the party with just four MPs.
Comment: there's a real sense of entitlement among some grandparents' responses to the hugging consent ad - it doesn't have to be a big deal.
The council's armed forces jobs fair ban has been branded "insulting and ridiculous" by a TUV candidate.
Restaurant review: the Belfast restaurant I've reviewed most is still the bar by which others are judged.
The 140-year-old Belfast fancy dress shop is as busy as ever: "everyone knows about it, so you just come here".
A Belfast documentary-turned-movie maker is eyeing up a TV spin-off after his first feature film's premiere.
A community has knitted together to transform a Co Antrim church tower with 13,000 poppies.
A fake nun is back behind bars after walking down Garvaghy Road wearing a union flag headdress while "shouting and waving her arms erratically".
Paedophile ex-DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson has been exposed over a bogus Trinity College history claim in a pre-sentence report.
What the budget means for NI, including why we're in limbo over the GBP100 energy payment.
The alleged victim in the Jeffrey Donaldson case claims the former DUP leader "gifted" himself a birthday rape at a Westminster office.
"It's been crazy... I haven't really had a minute to let it sink in": an NI children's nurse is "chuffed" to be crowned Miss Great Britain.
Comment: if it's any consolation for Lockhart, Bryson and the frustrated Orangemen languishing on Drumcree hill, there's no chance of a united Ireland happening either.
"Only credible option is to remove First Minister from office": Carla Lockhart warns she will take her "own course" if the DUP tries to "gaslight" voters.
A loyalist march through the lower Ormeau has been blocked by the Parades Commission.
Analysis: the meaty judgment gives greater clarity for future parading decisions.
The DUP leader has conceded the dismissal of the Orange Order legal challenge is "not what we wanted", as Garvaghy residents say they have been "vindicated".
Paddy McKillen Jr insists his court filing was "fully truthful, fully accurate" amid allegations he failed to disclose assets.
Are you on the hunt for a new job? Here are ten available this week.
Halloween myth-busting: the creatures wrongly feared this spooky season.
The most vulnerable are "caught in the crossfire" of budget talks between Westminster and Stormont.
Restaurant horror stories: from bungled burnt fungi to ice-cold hard prawns.
The proposed GBP50m Belfast venue "will be among the world's most distinctive boutique hotels".
Belfast pianist and singer Eddie Friel, Ireland's entrant in the 1995 Eurovision Song Contest, has died in Austria.