The Tokyo Olympic Games have seen incredible performances in the short-distance track events. We have seen two major world records fall: the men’s and women’s 400-metre hurdles – and numerous personal best times. In the…
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Federal Reserve board member Christopher Waller said on August 5 that he sees no immediate need for a US central bank digital currency (CBDC). He told the American Enterprise Institute that he is “not convinced……
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com — The taper ball is back at Jay Powell’s feet. How the Fed Chair kicks it could well decide the fate of gold in the coming days, weeks and…
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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has conceded that the country’s land reform programme is taking too long to address the challenge of land ownership inequality in South Africa. Bureaucratic delays, patronage and political influence, and…
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Giant bird-eating centipedes may sound like something out of a science-fiction film — but they’re not. On tiny Phillip Island, part of the South Pacific’s Norfolk Island group, the Phillip Island centipede (Cormocephalus coynei) population…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Oil posted its worst weekly loss in nine months as a soaring dollar on Friday hobbled any attempt by crude prices to rebound on Mideast tensions, after a…
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African cities are among the fastest growing in the world, leading to rising demand for urban housing. Housing policies promoted by international organisations such as the World Bank since the 1980s have stimulated housing markets…
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The growing use of opaque artificial intelligence (AI)-driven methods by banks is creating a problem for regulators, Benoît Cœuré said today (August 19). The head of the Bank for International Settlements’ innovation hub said a…
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Our modern understanding of trigonometry harks back to ancient Greek astronomers studying the movement of celestial bodies through the night sky. But in 2017, I showed the ancient Babylonians likely developed their own kind of…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Mercer Street, an Israeli-managed oil tanker that was attacked is seen off Fujairah Port in United Arab Emirates, August 3, 2021. REUTERS/Rula Rouhana/File Photo DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran on Saturday rejected as…
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