25 September 2026
Australia almost claimed a famous win over Brazil in a friendly game in Townsville.
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25 September 2026
The 20-year-old scored one of the great goals as the Aussies nearly pulled off a famous win.
25 September 2026
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With the last sailings before China’s Golden Week begins on 1 October, container spot rates on the transpacific trades finally began to tail off. Spot rates from Asia to the US west and east coasts have been consistently rising since the end of August in a late peak season pricing rally – last week they breached $10,000 per 40ft to the east coast on Drewry’s World Container Index (WCI). However, this week ... The post Shippers face rate hikes and ‘a classic supply-demand mismatch’ in Q4 appeared first on The Loadstar .
25 September 2026
While the US president hailed the visit as ‘great’, almost nothing of substance was achieved, which was a win for Xi Key takeaways from the Trump-Xi summit in Washington If the Beijing meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in May was the “ stalemate summit ”, the second round of talks between the presidents of the US and China this week seemed to give up entirely on the idea of breakthroughs. Instead, it was dubbed a celebration of “ diplotainment ” rather than diplomacy, where pomp prevailed over progress, and where one of the main outcomes was the news that two giant pandas would soon be sent from China to the Atlanta Zoo.
25 September 2026
The grand mufti urged Saudi-led forces to remain in “constant readiness,” suggesting that the kingdom might expand its campaign against the Houthis in Yemen.
25 September 2026
A youthful Australia side faces Carlo Ancelotti’s Brazil in the first of two high-profile friendlies in Queensland.
