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Nigeria President Buhari to meet Trump in Washington Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will become the first African leader to be received by US President Donald Trump when he arrives in Washington for talks later. They are expected to discuss shared economic and security interests. But many will also be watching the talks closely after a row over ...
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China eases rules on foreign investment in securities firms China has revealed new regulations that allow foreign investors to take majority control of local securities firms, after President Xi Jinping called for an intensification of financial reforms in the midst of a bitter trade row with the US. After years of complaints about Beijing blocking foreign access to its ...
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Westworld recap: season 2, episode 2 – the devil's in the Delos How Logan – yes, the unpleasant specimen has resurfaced – was introduced to representatives from the "Argles Initiative" in a swanky half-lit bar. How they gave him a private display of Westworld's merchandise. Naturally, Logan is so impressed by the hosts' verisimilitude that he wants to have sex with ...
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Next liquidity crisis could be hiding in plain sight "The paradox of liquidity is that it disappears as soon as one is in serious need of it," says Pascal Blanqué in The Economic and Financial Order. He pulls no punches when reviewing the weakness of modern portfolio theory, the guiding star of investors. The theory holds that liquidity — the ability to ...
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Twin ISIL suicide blasts kill 25 in Afghanistan's Kabul At least 25 people, including eight journalists, have been killed and dozens wounded after two explosions hit Kabul, according to Afghan health officials. The blasts went off during rush hour on Monday morning in the Shash Darak area of the Afghan capital. Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from ...
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McDonnell hits back at claims Russian bots helped Labour in 2017 election Shortly before the 1992 general election, the paper ran a front-page story about conversations between Neil Kinnock, the then Labour leader, and Soviet diplomats in London. The article consisted of accounts of meetings between Viktor Popov, the Soviet ambassador, and Kinnock during the miners' ...
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These 20 rookies had the best debuts in history Pirates right-hander Nick Kingham might not have been the most famous starting pitcher to take the mound Sunday, but many more fans were certainly aware of him by the time he stepped off the mound for the final time. Making his first MLB appearance since the Pirates drafted him in the fourth round of ...
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'Avengers: Infinity War' shatters box office record, hauls in $630M worldwide, even without China A few dozen superheroes lifted "Avengers: Infinity War" to a record $250 million in ticket sales over the weekend, narrowly surpassing "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" for the highest opening weekend of all-time. According to Disney's estimates Sunday, the Marvel Studios superhero smorgasbord ...
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A Decade of Banks Behaving Badly Is Being Laid Bare in Australia "In terms of exposure to the public, there has never been anything like it," Allan Fels, who ran Australia's competition regulator from 1989 to 2003, said in an interview. "The key thing is it has been powerfully conveyed to every Australian. Their attitudes will never be the same and their demands for the ...
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Total Solar Eclipse Corona in HDF Although one of the most photographed events in human history, this image -- only recently completed after an extraordinary amount of digital processing -- shows one of the most detailed depictions of a solar corona ever taken. Composed of extremely hot gas, the solar corona is only visible to the ...
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