Stock market today: Asian shares rise, cheered by last week's tech rally on Wall Street

Asian shares are higher amid optimism over the rally that ended the week on Wall Street, although eyes are on the Federal Reserve policy meeting set for later this week ... Read More

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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world's two biggest economies should be "partners, not rivals", but that there were a "number of issues" to be ... Read More

The world’s 100 worst polluted cities are in Asia — and 83 of them are in just one country

All but one of the 100 cities with the world’s worst air pollution ... India and Tajikistan. South Asia is of particular concern, with 29 of the 30 most polluted cities in India, Pakistan ... Read More

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The winning bid, placed by an American buyer, far surpassed the auctioneer's initial estimate, which ranged between £100,000 and £150,000. The watch, bearing the engraved initials "JJA," once ... Read More

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Ontario mom wants mandatory prescription-error reporting across Canada after son, 8, dies Months after Melissa Sheldrick’s eight-year-old son Andrew died from ... Read More

Oil rises as dollar slips, focus shifts to economic data

Oil prices rose by more than $1 a barrel on Tuesday as the U.S. dollar index fell to its lowest level in more than a week and investors shifted their focus away from tensions in the Middle East to the ... Read More

Fed in a holding pattern as inflation delays approach to any soft landing

Inflation showing no recent sign of slowing or narrowing in scope leaves U.S. Federal Reserve policymakers challenged this week over how to characterize their next steps even as the countdown to a ... Read More

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Having a team in the world’s richest sports competition might alter how people think of Luton, a place long dogged by a ramshackle image and links to extremism. The administration’s top drug ... Read More

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Science News // 1 day ago Report ... associated with a changing global climate greatly contributed to making the world's 2023 wine production the worst in 62 years, industry officials have ... Read More

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Having a team in the world’s richest sports competition might alter how people think of Luton, a place long dogged by a ramshackle image and links to extremism. The administration’s top drug ... Read More

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The plane departed Fairbanks just before 10 a.m., loaded with 3,200 gallons (12,100 ... aviation fuel aboard the C54D-DC Skymaster plane, a World War II-era airplane that had been converted ... Read More

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Pro Palestinian demonstrators protest the war in Gaza and demand college divestment from military weapons manufacturers on the Auraria Campus in Denver on April 25, 2024. (Photo by Kevin Mohatt ... Read More