HONG KONG (Reuters) – NVC Lighting Holding Ltd (2222.HK) shares are set to open 71.4% up after KKR & Co Inc (KKR.N) said it planned to take a stake in the China lighting business of the lighting electronic products maker. The stock is set to open at HK$1.20 on Monday, the highest open since August […]

With just five weeks to go before the Rugby World Cup kicks off, it’s already shaping up to be an event truly deserving of the designation ‘global’. Tickets have been sold to fans in 170 nations, with purchasers set to travel from as far north as Russia and as far south as Antarctica. More than […]

The Chicago publishing legend John H. Johnson laid the foundation of an empire in 1945 by styling a new magazine called Ebony as a love letter to the black elite. African-Americans were virtually invisible in the white press at the time — unless they committed crimes — and were held in such contempt in the […]

DENVER — A black bear broke into a Colorado house over the weekend and left by breaking through a wall. Estes Park police say the break-in occurred Friday night and that the animal was likely attracted to trash. A Facebook post by the police department said: “Upon officer’s arrival, said bear forcibly breached a hole […]

To the Editor: “Devices That Are Hard to Sterilize” (Science Times, Aug. 6) understates the value of duodenoscopes and the procedure they are used for, endoscopic retrograde cholangio pancreatography, or ERCP. This is a potentially lifesaving procedure for the hundreds of thousands of patients each year suffering from diseases of the pancreas, bile duct and […]

While British voters can disavow much of what Boris Johnson has been saying in their name, it is not a luxury the Tory party members who voted to make Boris Johnson leader can claim. The two thirds of voting members who backed Boris Johnson liked the image he portrayed. It was that of the bright, […]

Toni Morrison, dead this week at 88, was a great American novelist who was also a Great American Novelist. This means she had a special form of celebrity, an oracular status, and also that she was embraced by the tradition that regards novels as keys to interpreting America — insisting that you must read Morrison […]

Do other animals think, and what do they think about? Sarah, a chimpanzee who died last week in her late 50s, offers some important clues. Sarah, who could have been deemed the world’s smartest chimp, was brought to the United States from Africa as an infant to work with David and Ann Premack in a […]

It has been an unsettling week for some of President Trump’s political contributors. On Tuesday, it was revealed that Stephen Ross, the billionaire real estate developer whose firm owns SoulCycle and Equinox gym, was hosting a big-money fund-raiser in support of Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee on Friday, with ticket prices […]

Coral Nichols will be eligible to vote when she’s 190. That’s assuming the 40-year-old Floridian — who served five years in prison for fraud and embezzlement, followed by nearly 10 years on probation — is able to keep up with her $100 monthly restitution payments. Jermaine Miller thought he had fully repaid the $223.80 he […]