NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – A handful of hedge funds made a winning bet on approval of a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by investing in the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) well ahead of regulatory sign off, according to sources familiar with the matter. Hedge funds bought shares in the Grayscale …

LONDON (Reuters) – Lando Norris has signed a contract extension with McLaren to fuel their Formula One title ambitions and take the 24-year-old British driver into the sport’s new engine era in 2026 and beyond. The deal announced on Friday also put to bed current “silly season” speculation about Norris …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Canada and Turkey have reached a deal to restart Canadian exports of drone parts in exchange for more transparency on where they are used, and it would take effect after Ankara completes its ratification of Sweden’s NATO bid, two sources told Reuters. After 20 months of delay, …

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Alexander Zverev said his energy began to fade midway through his five-sets Australian Open semi-final loss to Daniil Medvedev on Friday and blamed an illness following his win over Carlos Alcaraz in the last round. Zverev was two points from a win after going up 5-4 in …

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP): The United Nations’ top court stopped short on Friday (Jan 26) of ordering a ceasefire in Gaza in a case accusing Israel of genocide in the tiny coastal enclave, but demanded that Israel try to limit deaths and damage caused by its military offensive there. South …

LONDON (Reuters) -Apple faces strong action if changes to its App Store do not meet incoming European Union regulations, the bloc’s industry chief said on Friday. In a move designed to comply with the EU’s incoming Digital Markets Act (DMA), the company will soon allow software developers to distribute their …

BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia’s regional leader on Friday denied allegations by Spain’s spy agency CNI that he had secretly led a radical separatist protest group, which he said CNI had used as a pretext to snoop on him. Pere Aragones told reporters he had received on Thursday some heavily redacted …

MELAKA: Telecommunication service providers have been told to take immediate action to overcome the issue of dropped calls here. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the problem of dropped calls also happened during a cellular service quality test conducted on a river cruise along Sungai Melaka in Banda Hilir here on …

(Reuters) – Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp has announced his decision to leave the club at the end of this season. Following are quotes and reactions: JAMIE CARRAGHER, FORMER LIVERPOOL PLAYER AND TELEVISION PUNDIT “This news was always going to be a body blow to the club whenever it came. I …

KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak Consolidated Industries Bhd (SCIB) is acquiring five industrial leasehold plots in the Demak Laut Industrial Park, Kuching, Sarawak for RM21.6mil cash. The industrialised building systems specialist, in a statement, said the acquisition, involving five lots of land, totalling 8.8544 hectares in the Muara Tebas Land District, represented …