South Korean man killed by North Korean sailors was trying to defect, says Seoul
The victim’s brother dismissed the assessment as ‘fiction’.
The victim’s brother dismissed the assessment as ‘fiction’.
A report claims that Paris Saint-Germain are expected to make a move for Napoli defender Kalidou Koulibaly, who has also been linked with a switch to Manchester City.
Top court asks for status reports in a month
Rato, who headed the International Monetary Fund from 2004 to 2007, led the merger in 2010 of several struggling banks into Bankia.
A Nigerian man has taken to microblogging site Twitter to narrate how he cancelled his wedding in 2017 after losing some money to popular Ponzi Scheme MMM.
BEIJING, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- The 2020 Chinese Super League (CSL)'s first stage ended on Monday after two months and 112 games. With an unprecedentedly intense game schedule in a closed environment
WASHINGTON -- China's economy is expected to grow by 2.0 percent in 2020, up from the 1-percent growth projection released in June, the World Bank said on Monday.
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From rarity, opulence and status, to today’s more nuanced ‘luxury essentialism’
Ebbsfleet United manager Dennis Kutrieb has added another defender to his squad ahead of their opening game of the 2020/21 campaign.
Seventh Generation, Absolut, Netflix and others are campaigning to get out the vote
Manhattan office employees are returning to work at a slower pace than those in most other major U.S. cities, raising the risk that New York faces a more protracted and painful recovery from the coronavirus pandemic than much of the rest of the country.
Central bank researchers overestimate the potency of bond buying stimulus efforts, in part because seeing the upside of these strategies benefits their careers, according to a new paper made public Monday.
If implemented nationwide, guaranteed income would represent a significant expansion of the American safety net and one that is not conditional on working or looking for work.
Retail bankruptcies, liquidations and store closings in the U.S. reached records in the first half of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic accelerated industry changes, particularly the shift to online shopping, according to a report.
When Professor Sir Nick White arrived in Thailand from Oxford University 40 years ago to join a small medical research unit, his duties included treating malaria and milking venomous snakes. Today, from his base at Bangkok’s Mahidol University, he leads an international team conducting a worldwide COVID-19 drug trial.
Ursula Burns is a leader of the Board Diversity Action Alliance. As the first—and only—Black woman to run a Fortune 500 company, she is uniquely suited to the work.
'I'm working round the clock': Brown eyes early comeback for Eels Sydney Morning Herald
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This list is curated by Sarah Cady and @nmr_chemist. It targets:Google said Monday it plans to start enforcing a rule requiring Android apps in its Play store to use its payment system, which takes a 30 per cent cut of transactions. “We have clarified the language in our payments policy to be more explicit that all developers selling digital goods in their apps are required to use Google Play’s billing system,” product management vice president Sameer Samat said in a blog post. People with smartphones or tablets powered by Google-backed Android software are free... Читать дальше...
Starved of blood for a month, the wee dears are sold to hospitals across Australia needing the limb-saving bloodsuckers.
More than 20,000 homes and small businesses would be added to a renewable energy drive credited with reducing emissions by 5 per cent under a council election pledge.
From toe exercises to icing his injured ankle at all hours, Eels half Dylan Brown left nothing to chance to ensure he was fit to face Melbourne on Saturday.
EUROPE and the United States need to face up to a "new Cold War with China" amid strained tensions in recent months, a senior German politician has warned.
Fluor Corporation jumped more than 10% in the last 5 trading days, and was only one of the very few stocks to do so. Does it mean that you should jump on the bandwagon? What are the chances that the momentum will continue over the next month, 6 months, or a year? Turns out, Fluor investors could...
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Canada has joined the premier league of the vaccine nationalists, a handful of rich countries that has pre-purchased more than half the world’s expected short-term supply of vaccines.
When the throne speech was delivered on Sept. 23, Canada had already committed over $1 billion in advance purchase agreements with five drug companies for a minimum of 154 million vaccine doses, if and when... Читать дальше...