NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG)- New York state reported 11,300 new Covid-19 cases, the most since January, as dozens of hospitals neared capacity. Total patients hospitalised for the virus have climbed by more than 1,000 in a month, reaching 3,093 on Wednesday (Dec 1). As of Thursday, 56 hospitals in the state had a bed capacity of […]
NEW YORK (NYTIMES) – The coronavirus pandemic has affected nearly all aspects of modern life, from the clothes we wear to the food we eat to how we spend our time. There is one thing, however, that has remained almost unchanged: the emojis we send. According to data from the Unicode Consortium, the organisation that […]
NEW YORK (BLOOMBERG) – The popular yet embattled statue known as “Fearless Girl” might have to find a new home again, while its creator also contemplates making non-fungible tokens (NFT) of the Wall Street icon. The bronze image of a girl standing defiantly with her hands on her hips has come to the end of […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) high-profile chief economist Gita Gopinath next month will become the number two official at the Washington-based crisis lender, the fund announced Thursday (Dec 02). Gopinath will succeed Geoffrey Okamoto as first deputy managing director, serving under IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva – the first time two women have […]
Ghislaine Maxwell was the ‘lady of the house’, enforcing strict rules at convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s Florida mansion, where she even made a former property manager clean her sex toys. Juan Alessi, who worked at the Palm Beach home from about 1990 to 2002, testified the fourth day of Maxwell’s child sex-trafficking trial taking […]
Former President Donald Trump would have beaten up people protesting the death of George Floyd in May 2020 if the Secret Service hadn’t forced him to hide in a bunker beneath the White House, his fourth and final chief of staff Mark Meadows claims. Trump had insisted at the time he had only been ‘inspecting’ […]
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Democratic and Republican leaders in the US Congress agreed on a proposal to fund federal agencies through mid-February, clearing the way for a House of Representatives vote on Thursday (Dec 2) that would be a critical step in averting a partial government shutdown. Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicted the House would pass the […]
The White House is set to announce new plans to combat the Omicron coronavirus variant, including a national campaign encouraging vaccine boosters, free at-home tests and requiring international travelers to take a Covid test within 24 hours of departure. President Joe Biden will promote his latest strategy during a visit to the National Institute of […]
HOUSTON (BLOOMBERG) – Exxon Mobil pledged to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 20 per cent by 2030, marking its most ambitious emissions target to date but falling far short of the sweeping climate commitments from some of its biggest rivals. While it’s Exxon’s first explicit promise to reduce overall pollution, the goals stand in stark contrast to […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Facebook-parent Meta on Wednesday (Dec 1) said it derailed an anti-Covid vaccine campaign that harassed medical workers, journalists and elected officials, in a signal of the ongoing pressure from pandemic-tied misinformation. The social media giant took down accounts in France and Italy that were linked to a conspiracy movement called “V-V”, […]