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Chicago Lab Told It Gets Half Its Helium as Qatar Supply Stays Stuck

CHICAGO, Oct. 19 -- A supplier has told Joe Sachleben's University of Chicago lab it will get half the helium it used last year, so he must choose which research machines to sacrifice. His backup supp... Read More


Keen Sword Opens Near Taiwan as Yonaguni Is Told to Clear Roads

New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- Residents of Yonaguni, the Japanese island 110 kilometres from Taiwan, have been asked to stay off the roads while military equipment is moved through Kubura Port for Keen Sword,... Read More


Spain's Dana Adam: One Dead in Catalonia, Red Alerts Hold in Valencia

New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- A woman swept away beside a stream in Cabrera de Mar, north of Barcelona, on Saturday evening was found dead on Sunday, the only death Xinhua reported from Dana Adam, an isolated... Read More


Qubic Halts Network After Weak Seeds Let an Attacker Drain 1,404 Wallets

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 -- The Qubic network halted on Sunday after an attacker reportedly exploited weakly generated wallet seeds to empty 1,404 wallets. Qubic's own count, posted to X at 12:29 UTC on 18 O... Read More


China's New-Home Prices Fell on the Month in 49 of 70 Cities, NBS Data Show

BEIJING, Oct. 19 -- New-home prices in Shanghai were 2.8% higher in September than a year earlier. In Luzhou they were 7.6% lower. Both readings come from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) table... Read More


Bomb Threat Sends Tel Aviv-Vienna Flight to Sofia Under Fighter Escort

Flight OS82, Oct. 19 -- Fifty-one passengers, among them a delegation of young people due to speak at the United Nations, were taken off an Austrian Airlines jet in Sofia on Sunday night after a bomb ... Read More


Belgian Police Log 195 Protest Arrests, Only 37 of Them Judicial

BRUSSELS, Oct. 19 -- Protesters in central Brussels built barricades from electric scooters and construction materials on Saturday, police said, and by Sunday the toll was on the record: 195 arrests a... Read More


Manila Summons China's Envoy; Beijing Faults Philippine Politicians

MANILA, Oct. 19 -- One sentence from Ambassador Jing Quan, "If we want to use force, we may easily win," got China's envoy to the Philippines summoned on Monday. Beijing replied the same day, pointing... Read More


Iran Warns Russia That Ukraine's Caspian Strikes Are Stoking Instability

DUSHANBE, Oct. 19 -- Iran's first vice president told Russia's prime minister on Monday that Ukraine is stoking instability in northern Iran through attacks on the Caspian region, and that Moscow and ... Read More


Eagles' Fourth Straight Loss Leaves Jalen Carter Carrying a 74-Snap Load

New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- The Philadelphia Eagles finally gave their defense a chance to catch its breath, then sent it straight back to work. After DeVonta Smith's fourth-quarter touchdown and a defensiv... Read More