Labour’s Claire Ward elected first mayor of East Midlands as Sunak gets boost in Tees Valley after Tory losses – live Party source describes region as ‘beating heart of general election battleground’ as prime minister says Labour threw ‘lot of mud’ ... 05/3/2024 - 7:16 am | View Link
Stock market today: Wall Street surges as key report shows pullback in hiring Stocks are rising on Wall Street, erasing the market's losses for the week, after the government reported a cooldown in hiring last month. 05/3/2024 - 6:54 am | View Link
Wall Street climbs to trim its loss for the week U.S. stocks climbed Thursday to trim the majority of their losses for the week. The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose 45.81 points, or 0.9%, to 5,064.20 a day after swinging sharply when the Federal Reserve ... 05/2/2024 - 9:55 am | View Link
Wall Street swings after Fed keeps interest rates high, downplays odds of a hike U.S. stocks finished mixed after the head of the Federal Reserve said the cuts to interest rates that Wall Street craves so much are still likely, even if they’re delayed because of stubbornly high in ... 05/1/2024 - 10:19 am | View Link
Editorial Roundup: United States Mr. Biden’s forceful performance at the State of the Union was designed to dispel the idea that his next move ought to be retirement. Yet 63% of voters still think his public appearances “give ... 04/30/2024 - 3:27 am | View Link
From using the ‘Open To Work’ badge, to updating your ‘About’ section, here’s how to make your profile stand out on LinkedIn.
Welcome to Work Smarter, Fast Company‘s newsletter on career, leadership, and productivity advice. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. Following a steep spike in pandemic-related layoffs, LinkedIn released its now-ubiquitous “Open To Work” badge in 2020.
The indie film powerhouse commissioned original songs from more than a dozen artists for the new movie.
Every generation has its iconic movie soundtrack. The curated collections of songs that accompanied films like The Breakfast Club, Reality Bites, and Garden State took on cultural lives of their own, thanks to their ability to distill each movie’s ethos into the best kind of mixed tape.
Of the potential mechanisms for tackling plastic pollution, a cap on plastic production was the most hotly debated, but one has not made it into the draft text of the treaty—not yet, at least.
An international agreement to end plastic pollution is due to be sealed this year in Busan, South Korea.
Premier Lacrosse League’s Paul Rabil tells ‘Fast Company’ how his success as an athlete-entrepreneur was fueled by social media.
With Paul Rabil, it’s tough to tell which came first, the athlete or the entrepreneur.
Without action, plastic production could triple by 2060.
Thirty years ago, while counting barnacles, limpets, and seaweeds along rocky shores, I started noticing a daily tide of litter, mostly plastic. As a marine biology PhD student at Liverpool University, I kept removing it, but the next day, there’d be more.
Cyberattacks arouse severe psychological distress—akin even to the harm generated by physical terrorism, causing people to feel trapped and anxious.
The news about the Israel-Hamas war is filled with reports of Israeli families huddling in fear from relentless rocket attacks, Israeli tanks, and artillery flattening buildings in the Gaza Strip, hundreds of kidnapped hostages imprisoned in subterranean tunnels, and millions of people driven from their homes by fighting.