Wall Street, seeking direction as the S&P 500 has been stuck in a narrow trading range for 12 days, will next week shift its attention from second-quarter corporate earnings reports to economic data. Investors will be looking for signs of economic strength to reinforce the positive direction hit Friday, when ... Read More »
Most Scots still back remaining in the United Kingdom despite Britons voting to leave the European Union, a move which was opposed by the majority in Scotland, according to an opinion poll published on Saturday. Scotland’s nationalist First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said the June 23 vote for Brexit had ... Read More »
U.S. authorities have issued subpoenas to Goldman Sachs Group Inc for documents related to the bank’s dealings with scandal-hit Malaysian state fund 1MDB, the Wall Street Journal reported late on Friday. Goldman received the subpoenas earlier this year from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Securities and Exchange ... Read More »
At least 17 people have been killed by heavy rains and flooding in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, while at least 14 people have died in Bangladesh, with millions of people also displaced, officials said on Saturday. Persistent heavy rains this week have caused widespread disruption across South Asia, ... Read More »
26/11 handler Abu Jundal and others have been found guilty in 2006 Aurangabad arms haul case by the MCOCA court in Mumbai on Thursday. The MCOCA court Judge S.L. Anekar upheld the prosecution’s claim that this was a conspiracy after 2002 Gujarat riots to eliminate then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi ... Read More »
Hillary Clinton is set to face the nation with the goal of introducing the woman that speaker after speaker, including a pair of presidents, have spent days promising the American public they’ll finally get to see- the “real” Hillary Clinton. In the biggest moment of her nearly 25-year political career, ... Read More »
If you love art and have not yet discovered Google’s new Arts & Culture website and phone apps, you are just not living and breathing art as it can be conceived by the world’s top information scientists using the latest and greatest in technology. And, if you think the new ... Read More »
Cape Town – Proudly South African wildlife spotting app Latest Sightings is flying the flag for Mzansi, after being named one of the Top 5 Most innovative apps for culture and tourism in the world. This award was accepted by South African app founder Nadav Ossendryver, at the recentWorld Summit ... Read More »
Priscilla and Olivia Wagoner, 10-year-old twins at Harborview Medical Center, aren’t thinking of the severe burns that have kept them in the hospital for about two weeks and away from their home in Columbia Falls, Mont. Instead, they’re thinking about catching Pikachu. The girls are part of a trial that ... Read More »
Robot doctors will performing one in three surgeries in the next five years, experts say. The surgical robots will more than double by 2021, with human doctors sitting at computer consoles guiding mechanical arms. While the latest figures are projected for American surgeries, the so-called “da Vinci” machines are expected ... Read More »
