(Reuters) -Nvidia’s shares scaled a new peak on Monday after Goldman Sachs raised its price target for the high-flying chipmaker’s stock in anticipation of a major boost to its earnings from the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. The stock rose about 4% to $689.21 and looked set to add about $70 …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Alex Albon expects to have to adjust his driving style this season as Williams seek to move up a gear after leaping from Formula One’s bottom-placed team to seventh last year. Albon scored all but one of the former champions’ points in 2023 and, now starting …

LAHORE/KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) – Days before Pakistan’s Feb. 8 election, a masked and headscarf-clad Komal Asghar led a team of similarly dressed women through alleys in the eastern city of Lahore. Their mission: to knock on doors and distribute campaign pamphlets adorned with photos of jailed former prime minister, Imran …

(Reuters) – Amazon.com has begun rolling out a new artificial intelligence assistant that is meant to address shoppers’ product questions, but the feature raises as many questions as it answers. Rufus, as the software is known, will help users, according to Amazon, by guiding them to the toaster ovens or …

NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) – Some soldiers in the east of Ukraine say they will have little choice but to fight until the war is over, despite attempts by the government in Kyiv to mobilise more troops to replace those serving long stints at the front. Draft legislation aimed at …

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Interpol should elect a new head from a developing nation to diversify the organisation and boost its credibility as crime becomes increasingly globalised, Brazil’s candidate to head the international police agency, Valdecy Urquiza, told Reuters. This would help Interpol strengthen global cooperation to combat transnational crime, said …

KUALA LUMPUR: The ringgit closed weaker against the US dollar as the greenback stayed resilient, increasing its appeal as a safe-haven currency on escalating geopolitical tensions, the Federal Reserve’s hawkish remark as well as positive US economic data, an economist said. At 6 pm, the ringgit fell to 4.7460/7520 against …

VINA DEL MAR, Chile (Reuters) – Chile began an official two-day mourning period on Monday for the 112 so far killed in the South American country’s deadliest wildfires in recent history, while authorities continued to battle blazes fanned by high temperatures and strong winds. Fires that broke out in central …

PETALING JAYA: With Malaysia already facing a shortage of specialist doctors, the complications related to specialists’ training programmes may only worsen the condition. Many junior doctors have voiced concerns about the limited offering for the Hadiah Latihan Persekutuan (HLP) scholarship as well as the long wait for entry into the …

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The U.S. envoy to Budapest along with ambassadors from some other NATO allies including Denmark and Poland attended the Hungarian parliament on Monday in a surprise show of pressure on Budapest to approve Sweden’s bid to join the alliance. The extraordinary meeting of parliament was called by the …