BYD expects full-year vehicle sales to be slightly higher than last year, with stronger growth coming from overseas, Li Yunfei, general manager of brand and PR, said. He said second‑generation Blade Battery and flash‑charging technology have left BYD’s domestic sales performing better than the broader Chinese auto market.

President Trump invited UFC president Dana White to serve as White House press secretary and proposed recruiting fighters Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Kayla Harris as aides. Trump acknowledged several of the proposed aides are not U.S. citizens and publicly urged White to accept the role.

A senior Houthi source said on the 7th that Saudi Arabia and Syria recently agreed a military cooperation arrangement to deploy ground forces to the Saudi–Yemen border and inside Yemen to support the Yemeni government. The source said the deal was reached during a recent visit to Saudi Arabia by Syrian transitional president Ahmad Sharaa, but gave no deployment details and said no Syrian combatants have yet been observed on Yemen’s front lines. Syrian officers have reportedly visited Saudi Arabia to survey potential deployment sites, front-line conditions and logistics routes. Saudi and Syria signed a defence-cooperation agreement in Riyadh on the 4th; Syrian state media on the 7th quoted a Syrian foreign ministry source saying claims Syria would send troops to Yemen lack basis and that current cooperation is limited to training, experience-sharing and military advice focused on capacity building, which could later develop into a joint defence agreement.