Asian stock markets were mixed Monday as investors looked ahead to U.S.-Chinese trade talks and the Federal Reserve’s update on its U.S. interest rate outlook. Benchmarks in Hong Kong and Seoul advanced, while Shanghai and Sydney declined. Japanese markets were closed for a holiday. On Wall Street, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 index hit […]
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Image copyright Science Photo Library Women who are too anxious or embarrassed to go for a smear test could instead provide a urine sample to be screened for cervical cancer, research suggests. A trial found urine testing was as good at detecting a virus called HPV that is a big risk factor for the cancer.
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Image caption Hugh Grant starred in A Very English Scandal, which won three awards A Very English Scandal was the big winner at the Bafta TV Craft Awards on Sunday night, scooping three prizes. The BBC drama was recognised for best costume design, best editing (fiction) and best director (fiction) for Stephen Frears. The series,
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Image copyright Getty Images The Office for National Statistics (ONS) says 31% of graduates are overeducated for the job they are doing. For those graduating before 1992, the number was only 22%, but this jumped to 34% for those graduating after 2007. London had the highest proportion of overeducated workers in the UK, with about
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A woman from Mongolia has won a prestigious environment award after successfully campaigning to stop mining firms destroying a critical habitat for snow leopards. Bayarjargal Agvaantseren persuaded her government to create a huge nature reserve in the South Gobi Desert and cancel 37 mining contracts in the area. She is one of six people recognised
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A strike among pilots at Scandinavian Airlines has entered its fourth day with the carrier being forced to cancel 1,213 flights Monday and Tuesday, affecting some 110,000 passengers. The flag carrier of Denmark, Norway and Sweden says more than 170,000 passengers have been affected since the open-ended strike started Friday. The strike began after the
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, billionaire tech CEO Marc Benioff called out his own industry, saying it fostered an epidemic of inequality. Benioff, CEO of the San Francisco-based Salesforce, used the housing and homelessness crises in his own city to make his point. “San Francisco is kind of a train
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Minjee Lee won the Hugel-Air Premia LA Open on Sunday at Wilshire Country Club for her fifth LPGA Tour title, closing with a 3-under 68 for a four-stroke victory. The 22-year-old Australian was projected to jump from fourth to second in the world ranking Monday after her fourth top-three finish in her last seven starts.
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Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote an entire book, “The Court and the World,” on the ways the American legal system does and should interact with the international community. But none of the court’s four liberal justices asked about the apparently widespread international practice of asking about citizenship on censuses. Unfortunately, the briefs in the case,
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When a recession threatens, the Federal Reserve has a trusty method for either preventing it or minimizing its damage: Cut interest rates — by a lot, if necessary. But what happens when interest rates stay near record lows even in good times? With the economic expansion on track to become the longest on record, one
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