BEIRUT -- Chris Knayzeh was in a town overlooking Lebanon's capital when he heard the rumbling aftershock of the 2020 Beirut port blast. Hundreds of tons of haphazardly stored ammonium nitrates had exploded, killing and injuring thousands of people.Already str... More »
LinkedIn has just updated its privacy policy to reveal that it’s using user data to train its AI models. However, it looks like this has been going on for much longer than it let on. What’s worse, all users are opted in for data collection by default. If you... More »
Labour's plans to axe the U.K.'s non-dom tax regime could spark an ultra wealthy exodus, advisors and research bodies have warned. Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Greece, Malta, Dubai and the Caribbean have emerged as top relocation destinations as they "smell the... More »
While traffic and industry have been the focus of air pollution controls for the past two decades, the old issue of pollution from home heating has crept up again.Wood- and coal-burning homes in the UK now produce more particle air pollution than the vehicles ... More »
Jobcentres are the “least well-used” and “least well-loved” of all public services, a failure at the heart of the economy that helps account for the biggest contraction in the workforce since the 1980s. So said the employment minister, Alison McGovern, as she ... More »
When Europe’s heaviest land mammals were introduced into a woodland on the edge of Canterbury, it was hoped they would flourish and make space for other wildlife.But the European bison have been so successful in West Blean and Thornden Woods that more space mu... More »
Parents who find themselves exasperated by their child’s fussy eating, take heart: the refusal to tuck into a broader range of foods is largely down to genes rather than parenting, according to scientists.Researchers investigated eating habits in toddlers to t... More »
He weathered the storm as the city’s chief financial officer for 16 years and jousted with Mayor Koch in a public feud and a losing primary bid to replace him.Harrison J. Goldin, who as New York City’s comptroller for 16 years became enmeshed in the city’s bru... More »
Vice President Kamala Harris harnessed the star power of one of her most powerful surrogates — and one of America’s foremost interviewers — to lay out a powerful pitch for her campaign on Thursday, as she passionately confronted pressing issues during a livest... More »
HONG KONG -- Asian stocks surged on Friday with Japan’s Nikkei leading regional gains after Wall Street romped to records following the Federal Reserve’s big cut to interest rates.U.S. futures and oil prices were lower.The Bank of Japan ended a two-day monetar... More »
NEW YORK -- When he wasn't working on mystery stories, and he completed hundreds, G.K. Chesterton liked to think of new ways to tell them.Detective fiction had grown a little dull, the British author wrote in a rarely seen essay from the 1930s published this w... More »
A New York magazine political reporter who allegedly engaged in an undisclosed affair with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged she began a personal relationship with a “reporting subject,” but denied that it became phys... More »