Five cases of malaria have been confirmed in Florida and Texas, the first time the potentially fatal mosquito-borne disease has been locally acquired in the United States in 20 years, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday (Jun 26). The four Florida cases, along with one in Texas, […]
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SYDNEY : If Eddie Jones was looking for winners when he started thinking about his Wallabies squad for the World Cup, the call to leviathan lock Will Skelton would have been one of the first he made. The hulking forward won the Super Rugby title in 2014 with the New […]
NEW DELHI: Amazon.com Inc said on Friday it will take its investments to $26 billion in India by 2030, adding $6.5 billion in new planned investments in an announcement made after CEO Andy Jassy met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the United States. Though Jassy gave no breakdown, the announcement […]
OTTAWA: Canadian government regulators yesterday opened a safety investigation into the undersea implosion of a tourist submersible that killed all five people aboard during a voyage to the century-old wreck of the Titanic. A debris field from the submersible Titan was found at the bottom of the North Atlantic on […]
TOKYO : Japanese online financial conglomerate SBI Holdings Inc said on Saturday it now has 53.74 per cent shares of midsize lender SBI Shinsei Bank from 50.04 per cent after a tender offer. The completion of the tender offer through Friday is setting up grounds for expected delisting of Shinsei […]
SEOUL: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called key ally South Korea to discuss results of his visit to China this month, South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said today. Blinken told South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin he had an honest, practical and constructive dialogue with the Chinese side, […]
BEIJING: The United States and China looked to set up a safety net for their intensifying rivalry during a visit to Beijing by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, but the trip achieved only general promises and no breakthroughs on hoped-for military talks and flashpoint issues. Both President Xi Jinping, who […]
BERLIN: Chancellor Olaf Scholz hosts Premier Li Qiang for talks on Tuesday (Jun 20), seeking to recalibrate cooperation between Germany and China after Berlin branded Beijing a “systemic rival”. Li is on his first trip abroad since he was named premier in March and tasked with shoring up China’s sputtering […]
SINGAPORE: The US dollar rose broadly today and notched a seven-month high against the yen, while the yuan slipped after China cut two benchmark lending interest rates for the first time in 10 months. China today lowered its one-year and five-year loan prime rates (LPR) by 10 basis points, as […]
Scientists suggest strange swirls across the outer layer of the brain might be used to link different parts of it together and help process information faster. Mysterious, spiral signals have been discovered in the human brain, and the scientists who found the swirls think they could help to organize complex […]