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The US housing market is in the midst of a major shift. After two years of stratospheric price appreciation, home prices have peaked and are on their way back down.

Giorgia Meloni, the hard-right leader who is due to be sworn in as Italy's first female prime minister, won the election on a campaign built around a promise to block migrant ships and support for traditional "family values" and anti-LGBTQ themes.

A female Iranian rock climber, who competed without a hijab at an international competition in South Korea, has taken to social media to thank her supporters -- amid conflicting reports over whether she has been put under house arrest.

Tyrique Glasgow's life has always revolved around his South Philadelphia neighborhood, and gun violence has always been a part of it.

Populist firebrand Giorgia Meloni has been named as Italy's first female prime minister, becoming the country's most far-right leader since Benito Mussolini.

A teachers' union in Iran called for a nationwide teacher strike in protest over the recent deaths and detention of students in the country, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers' Trade Associations (CCITTA) said in a statement on Telegram on Thursday.

Archaeologists in northern Iraq have uncovered some extraordinary Assyrian rock carvings dating back around 2,700 years.

The people of this isolated, poverty-stricken island of refugees from the wars of 1948 and 1967 have never had it easy. But in the past two weeks, conditions at the Shuafat camp in East Jerusalem have become even more unbearable.

For those watching from outside the UK, it might seem bizarre that Boris Johnson is being tipped to return as prime minister, just months after he was forced to resign in disgrace following a string of scandals.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan will be disqualified from holding political office for five years, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) recommended on Friday, a move likely to further inflame political tensions in the country.

Four more bodies of suspected illegal migrants from Ethiopia have been found near the site of a mass grave in northern Malawi that contained the remains of 25 Ethiopian nationals, according to police in the southern African country.

China's economy is faltering. Unemployment is skyrocketing. Endless Covid lockdowns are wreaking havoc on businesses and people's lives. The property sector is in crisis. Ties between Beijing and major global powers are under strain.

More than a century after the death of Amedeo Modigliani, a consortium of art historians and conservation experts convened by the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia is discovering hidden aspects of the artist's techniques thanks to new research and analytical technologies.

As a new, deadly virus overtook the central city of Wuhan and spread throughout China in early 2020, the country's ruling Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping were faced with a crisis on a scale not seen in decades.

BMW recently announced a $1.7 billion investment to help prepare its huge Spartanburg, South Carolina, factory to produce electric cars and SUVs. That sum included $700 million for the construction of a battery manufacturing plant nearby.

Snap's bad year continues.

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Tesla buyers may be able to take advantage of new federal tax credits for electric vehicles next year, the automaker's executives said Wednesday. The credits can be as large as $7,500 for new vehicles and $4,000 for used vehicles.

Even the uber-rich are on edge now about the economy.

"Payday Friday" may soon be replaced by "Payday Wednesday."