Deutsche Boerse traders at the Frankfurt stock exchange. It costs money to save money there. The FTSE Europe and MSCI Germany are down nearly 10% in five years. Economies are flat. China is rising. Photographer: Adam Berry/Bloomberg News BLOOMBERG NEWS They’ve almost taken over the European bicycle manufacturing industry. They’re nearly banned from selling random […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a U.S. list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing his experts’ findings that a Saudi-led coalition has been using under-age fighters in Yemen’s civil war, according to four people familiar with the matter. U.S. Secretary of State Mike […]
PRETORIA (Reuters) – The African National Congress easily won South Africa’s general election on Saturday but its share of the vote fell, reflecting anger at corruption scandals and racial inequalities that remain entrenched a generation after the party took power. It was the worst electoral performance by the late Nelson Mandela’s former liberation movement, which […]
MOSCOW — A Moscow court has extended the pretrial detainment period for several of the 24 Ukrainian seamen who were jailed after the Russian Coast Guard seized their vessels near the Kerch Strait in a flare-up of tensions in November. On April 17, the Lefortovo district court was hearing requests by prosecutors to keep the […]
× silca-viaggio-pump-7.jpg There seems to be applications today for just about every task you can think of and over the last few weeks I have come to appreciate a simple app and piece of gear that is essential to cycling. A bike pump is an essential piece of kit for bikers and when you are […]
Hippocamp and its fellow moonsMark R. Showalter, SETI Institute By Leah Crane A tiny moon of Neptune is a real fighter. The little space rock, now named Hippocamp, was probably chipped off a larger moon some 4 billion years ago and repeatedly smashed up and reassembled. Neptune has an unusual moon system: it has one […]
President Trump will declare a national emergency and seek money to build a border wall, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday, moments before the U.S. Senate passed a compromise spending bill that didn’t include wall funding. If Trump follows through on the emergency declaration, he’ll be doing something that large majorities of Americans […]
The beewolf wasp paralyses its victims with venomDietmar Nill/naturepl.com By Chris Baraniuk A bee-killing wasp lays eggs that emit toxic gas – a food hygiene technique that keeps the larvae’s dinner fresh until they hatch. The European beewolf’s eggs spew out large amounts of nitric oxide (NO), which reacts with oxygen in the air to […]