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💰Feeling jittery over the stock market? Some say volatility isn’t something to run from and could be an opportunity to build wealth over the long term. The Money Talks podcast goes LIVE on CNA’s YouTube channel and TikTok page tomorrow (Oct 11) to chat about staying calm and having discipline even when markets get rough, and why compounding matters more than timing the market. Set a reminder here: https://cna.asia/3L2PWGA

"Is it over? They said it is. Why does no one come out and tell us whether there is a ceasefire and we can stop being afraid?" A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has taken effect, with Israeli troops beginning to pull back from Gaza and hostages set to be released within days. https://cna.asia/4h3WbWJ

JUST IN: María Corina Machado, Venezuela's main opposition leader, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025. More details on our live blog: https://cna.asia/47068jn Watch the live stream of the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyVZ5vsHyvM

Who will be awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize? The winner will be announced from 5pm onwards (Singapore time) in Oslo. We're tracking live updates as they come on CNA's live blog, and you can also watch the live stream here: https://cna.asia/47068jn

🚇 MRT reliability fell in August, according to the LTA's maiden monthly report on rail performance. The Downtown and North East lines saw the biggest drops due to single major delays: https://cna.asia/4oeIhUa

Remember the case of Gisele Pelicot, the French woman whose husband drugged her and recruited dozens of men into mass raping her over nearly a decade? One of the 51 men convicted so far appealed his verdict, but a French court rejected it and upped his jail term to 10 years: https://cna.asia/48pNO5G

📺 Xie Shaoguang fans, we now know more about his first comeback TV project — he will star alongside Chen Hanwei in The Gift of Time, premiering later this month. He shares more about a role he says is "very dear" to him with CNA Lifestyle: https://cna.asia/48TbwqX

A 39-year-old man has been jailed nine months for punching another father at an indoor playground, fracturing the victim’s face. He had confronted the man after learning that the latter had scolded his son for accidentally falling onto his daughter: https://cna.asia/4n1iIVj

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off southern Philippines this morning, triggering tsunami warnings for the coastal areas of Mindanao and central Philippines as well as Indonesia's northern Sulawesi and Papua regions. Waves of up to 50cm could hit Indonesia's shorelines: https://cna.asia/3L43T79

“It’s anything but attractive.” Singapore students are shunning engineering, saying long hours and low starting pay (median levels currently at between S$4,000 and S$5,500) make the career less rewarding: https://cna.asia/4nHlgZU

🚿 Do you really know how to wash your hair? It's not just about frequency — things can go wrong from the shampoo you use, how you massage your scalp and rinse, and even the temperature of the water. Experts share more with CNA Lifestyle: https://cna.asia/48VfQ9c

📈 It's going up, up, up — is this gold's moment? Or just the start of one? CNA asked 5 analysts why the metal's having a record rally now, and whether investors might keep seeing Golden in the years ahead: https://cna.asia/4q3uu4j

This underground cave in Singapore goes as deep as a 54-storey building (or the Great Pyramid of Giza). 🤯 The oil storage facility has the space of 600 Olympic-sized pools. A look into how the Jurong Rock Caverns was built: https://youtu.be/l0oohw_jyq4

Over 3 months, a man used self-checkout machines 26 times at a Giant supermarket in Woodlands to get free groceries by cancelling all his scanned items and only paying for a cheap drink. He was eventually caught, and will be jailed for a month: https://cna.asia/4o4NjSW

Despite visa curbs and uncertainty in the US, Singaporean students are still heading there for tertiary studies, registering the smallest drop among those from Asia. CNA speaks to some to find out why: https://cna.asia/3VXL1ZV Would you study at a US university in this political climate?

A 16-year-old boy has admitted to a string of crimes including: - acting as a lookout while 2 others raped a 13-year-old girl in a carpark - assaulting a 12-year-old boy in a school canteen - filming a voyeuristic video of a schoolmate in the toilet - stealing from a Popular bookstore He faces jail and caning, and is being assessed for reformative training: https://cna.asia/4nJAE8k

🍸🍹 Bar hoppers, here's this year's ranking of the 50 world's best for you to work your way down — for the first time, a bar from Hong Kong (Bar Leone) has clinched the #1 spot, while Singapore has 2 spots on the list: https://cna.asia/4pZwdrq

A man climbed onto a woman’s balcony to watch her while she was asleep with her chest exposed, even entering her bedroom to touch her toes. Despite being caught, he returned to her home 2 more times, on one occasion staring at her from her balcony for 3 hours. He was jailed: https://cna.asia/48RtKsS

☀ Hong Kong has logged a record 4 “very hot” October days so far — the most since records began in 1884, as temperatures hit 33.1°C on Wednesday. https://cna.asia/4q3dTxD

Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of his Gaza peace plan, says US President Donald Trump. “All hostages will be released very soon,” he said. https://cna.asia/4mZxj3I