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Hope's Heroics: West Indies Chase Down 250 to Beat India in Record T20 Thriller
Shai Hope's unbeaten 102 off 45 balls powered West Indies to a six-wicket win over India in Ranchi, completing the highest successful T20I chase in their history and the second-highest ever — levelling the five-match series 1-1.

Three in Five AI Models Fail Terrorism Safety Tests, Study Warns
A new study by the UK-based nonprofit Tech Against Terrorism finds that three in five AI models failed safety evaluations designed to stop terrorist exploitation — and that safeguard-stripped versions consistently hand attackers dangerous information.

A'ja Wilson Makes History With Record Fifth WNBA MVP: 'I Cried a Little Bit Harder on This One'
Las Vegas Aces star A'ja Wilson became the first player in WNBA history to win five MVP awards on Thursday, taking 65 of 74 first-place votes and completing the league's first MVP three-peat after a 26.2-point-per-game season.

India scraps GST officers' arrest powers, raises prosecution threshold fivefold in sweeping taxpayer relief package
India's 57th GST Council meeting removed the power of arrest under GST law, raised the prosecution threshold from Rs 1 crore to Rs 5 crore, cut the general penalty to Rs 10,000, and approved faster automated refunds — all taking effect from 1 April 2027.

Pryluky Toll Rises to 22, Including Five Children, After Russian Strike Hits Apartment Block
Rescuers in the northern Ukrainian city of Pryluky searched through rubble for survivors as the death toll from a Russian missile strike on a residential building rose to 22, including five children, with 54 injured.

Jeffrey Archer, Bestselling Novelist of 'Kane and Abel' and Disgraced Politician, Dies at 86
Jeffrey Archer, whose 300-million-copy career spanned five decades of publishing triumphs and one of British politics' most spectacular falls from grace, died suddenly at home on October 5, 2026 — days before his final novel 'Adam and Eve' hits shelves.

Did Trump Freeze Childcare Funding? What We Actually Know
Fact-check: the Trump administration did freeze federal childcare funding in January 2026 — but only for five Democratic-led states, and courts blocked it. Here's what was frozen, what wasn't, and where things stand.

One in Eight Cancers Is Linked to Infections, Global Study Finds — and Many Are Preventable
A major WHO-linked analysis published in The Lancet Oncology estimates that infections caused 2.3 million of the world's new cancer cases in 2024 — roughly one in eight — with just five pathogens behind almost all of them.

One in Five Lebanese Children Now Going to Bed Hungry, UNICEF Warns as War Enters Seventh Month
UNICEF's new assessment finds 22% of Lebanese households say their children go to bed hungry, with 261 children killed and over 1,000 injured since fighting resumed in March — and some 340,000 people still unable to return home.