Real 'Fault in Our Stars' couple reunited by hope Katie and Dalton Prager, a young couple who both have cystic fibrosis, celebrated happy news when they reunited Tuesday afternoon after nearly five months apart: Katie is on her way to getting a lifesaving lung transplant. More
Philippines mulls pullout of Syria peacekeepers The Philippine foreign secretary says he is recommending to President Benigno Aquino III to pull out all Filipino U.N. peacekeepers from the Golan Heights following the abduction of four by Syrian rebels. More
Iran president still a force even as his era ends When many struggling families in this eastern Iranian city take stock of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's legacy, it's not about the oratory full of bluster and menace or his tussles with Iran's ruling clerics that are known to much of the world. More
The week in TV: Feud: Truman Capote vs the Swans; Danny Dyer: How to Be a Man; Blue Lights; Dinosaur – review Tom Hollander heads a deliciously starry but drawn-out drama about Capote and his gal pals; Danny Dyer talks to geezers; the Belfast cop series is back with a bang; and neurodiverse Nina is a sparky s ... 04/20/2024 - 8:30 pm | View Link
Mats Hummels trolls Premier League over Euro exits as he leans into German 'farmer's league' jibes The Dortmund star hailed a good 'harvest' for Bundesliga sides in the Champions League and Europa League this week. 04/18/2024 - 8:43 pm | View Link
SSAs push through ‘wobble’ week with core strength The trade landed at 16bp over Sofr mid-swaps, 1bp tighter than initial price thoughts, the tightest priced SSA dollar bond so far this year, and at a Treasury spread of plus 10.08bp. The World Bank ... 04/18/2024 - 11:32 am | View Link
Euro 2024: Scotland's Aaron Hickey injury recovery 'progressing well' Aaron Hickey is "making good progress" with his injury and is determined to be fit for Euro 2024, says former Scotland defender Steven Pressley. Pressley, head of player development at Hickey's club ... 04/17/2024 - 1:34 am | View Link
Kirsty Gilmour says taking pressure off resulted in Euro silver win Kirsty Gilmour says taking a step back and some pressure off resulted in a fourth European Championship silver medal of her career. And the Bothwell 30-year-old says it resulted in her playing some of ... 04/17/2024 - 1:22 am | View Link
New research found that ocean spray spreads PFAS into the air and onto land, creating a vicious cycle of forever chemicals that never disappear.
PFAS, or forever chemicals, are ubiquitous in our environment. In the U. S. alone, there are more than 57,000 sites contaminated with these chemicals. They’re in our drinking water, our soil, our products—and our ocean.
First designed in 1996, the 9000c is still a work of art.
It may seem like music fans today have a choice between two extremes: the beloved yet laborious ritual of listening to vinyl—or the convenience of streaming platforms, where instant gratification (and often subpar audio quality) is just a click away.
North Korea sent its highest-level delegation to Iran in about five years as the U. S. raised concerns that arms sales from Pyongyang and Tehran have helped fuel conflicts in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
In a rare public report of the trip, the official Korean Central News Agency said in a one-sentence dispatch the North Korean delegation led by External Economic Relations Minister Yun Jong Ho left Pyongyang for Tehran on Tuesday.
The International Monetary Fund issued a most unusual rebuttal this month. Its spokeswoman Julie Kozack told reporters in Washington that executive director Krishnamurthy Subramanian’s growth forecast of 8% for India did not represent the views of the IMF, which still maintained a projection of 6.5% for the country.
Subramanian’s views—expressed at an event in New Delhi a few days earlier—were in his role as India’s representative at the IMF, she said.
WASHINGTON — U. S. companies would no longer be able to bar employees from taking jobs with competitors under a rule approved by a federal agency Tuesday, though the rule is sure to be challenged in court.
The Federal Trade Commission voted Tuesday 3-2 to ban measures known as noncompete agreements, which bar workers from jumping to or starting competing companies for a prescribed period of time.