Most people know that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain but I want to know for how long it has been the tallest, and for how long in the future it will remain so (…)…
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2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Canadian Natural Resources Limited’s Primrose Lake oil sands project is seen near Cold Lake, Alberta 2/2 By Nia Williams (NYSE:) CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) -New York’s state pension fund is restricting…
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Major League Baseball knows how to exert leverage over local lawmakers. Over 100 companies, including Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola, reacted to Georgia’s new restrictive voting law by publicly denouncing it. While some executives are…
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Sixty years ago, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel in space when he completed his historic orbit of Earth on April 12, 1961. Out of respect for Gagarin’s achievement, the Apollo…
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© Reuters. Oil Holds Near $59 as Fed’s Powell Points to Economic Growth (Bloomberg) — Oil was steady near $59 a barrel as trading opened in Asia after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An Air France airplane lands at the Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy PARIS (Reuters) – French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by…
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The uneven availability of COVID-19 vaccines has become an increasingly urgent and vexatious issue. But managing the problem of what’s been labelled “vaccine nationalism” is proving a hard nut to crack. Shortages of medicines and…
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If you stepped outside on the weekend and thought, “Gosh, the full moon looks nice tonight”, you are not alone. According to Google Trends, Moon-related searches are up by more than 60% over the past…
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10/10 © Reuters. Britain’s Prince Philip and Prince Charles listen to speeches before the unveiling of a statue of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in Poundbury 2/10 By Allegresse Sasse COTONOU (Reuters) – Benin votes…
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In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, why some economists are worried about a growing army of “zombie companies” with lots of debts – and what this could mean for the shape of our economies.…
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