16 October 2026
International director Gwendal Poullennec says the influential dining directory plans to expand beyond South Australia.
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16 October 2026
Australia once operated one of America's most advanced Cold War military aircraft, the F-111 Aardvark. With variable-sweep wings, sophisticated terrain-following technology, and an unusual crew escape ...
16 October 2026
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16 October 2026
The terrifying moment came as a complete shock to the fit and healthy 43-year-old.
16 October 2026
Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala joined leaders of multilateral development banks and other international organizations at a high-level roundtable held on the sidelines of the 2026 World Bank – International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meetings in Bangkok, Thailand, on 16 October to review progress in expanding supply chain finance in developing economies and to discuss priorities for the next phase of cooperation.
16 October 2026
Container lines, sensing a gradual slowdown in Indian westbound volumes, are revisiting their surcharges and penalties, indicating a hot market may be turning decidedly cooler. The liners had been increasingly rolling booking cancellation and container no-show fees into their freight bills in recent months to maximise profitability from booming demand. Now, according to industry sources, Hapag-Lloyd, for one, has revised its cancellation fee drastically for Indian customers to $100 per container, from ... The post Ex-India spot rates and surcharges ease as peak comes to an end appeared first on The Loadstar .
16 October 2026
As violent spirits are unleashed in Sky’s Possession, observers see confident creatives reclaiming the island’s narratives in a form of ‘cultural reparation’ A woman opens a 300‑year‑old box, unleashing a violent spirit – it is the spirit of colonialism and oppression roaring back to life. It is a pivotal scene in Sky’s supernatural series Possession and symbolises a wider shift in Jamaica’s film industry, where directors are increasingly using the landscape to tell Jamaican stories – including those that confront enslavement, trauma and historical memory. The series is about a biracial British lawyer who travels to Jamaica to investigate a multimillion-pound inheritance dispute, only to uncover a dark, vengeful spirit tied to the plantation’s brutal colonial past.
16 October 2026
Character. AI collected millions of users, making it a very appealing acquisition. Google took a unique route to "acquiring" it, hiring away its founders and licensing its technology. Now Character. AI is filing for bankruptcy.
