Such developments led pundits to proclaim the end of rip-off markets. “Information perfection is on the rise,” pronounced ...

Days earlier the Pentagon’s boss, Pete Hegseth, had ordered her to sail to the Caribbean, part of a vast and unexplained ...

To free up cash, the oil giants have been cutting costs. Exxon recently announced it would reduce its workforce by 3-4%.

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Mr Xi is firmly in charge, and unabashed about showing the party and the world that he will dump anyone deemed to be a bad ...

So will the government of Donald Trump, which has been backing Mr Milei and buying pesos to prop up the Argentine currency.

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In the past decade spending on children with SEND in England has almost doubled, reaching £11.6bn ($15.5bn). Yet even as ...

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A N UNLIKELY PART of the American economy has come under attack from the federal government: charitable and philanthropic non ...

Nail art is enjoying triple-digit growth. The number of nail salons in America has doubled since 2012, to around 35,000, ...

China’s craze for crude is part of a grander plan. Since early 2024, when it became clear that President Donald Trump might ...