WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs, but they remain far apart on one issue: the U.S. demand…
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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Chinese officials may be able to settle many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs, but they remain far apart on one issue: the U.S. demand…

A boat has capsized off Yemen’s coast leaving 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the UN’s migration agency said.
It was the latest in a series of shipwrecks off Yemen that have killed hundreds of people fleeing conflict and…

In March 2020, about the time the Covid pandemic started, Christina Chapman, a woman who lived in Arizona and Minnesota, received a message on LinkedIn asking her to “be the US face” of a company and help overseas IT workers gain remote…

Third PlaceWhat comes to mind when you think of a big fat Indian wedding?
Dazzling lights, glittering outfits, Bollywood hits, a lavish spread of food and an…


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BBCThe sheet of paper says “Wanted Person” at the top. Below is a photo of a young woman, a headshot that might have been taken in a studio. She looks directly at the camera, smiling with her teeth…

Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker.
But this common metaphor is misleading, according to a meta-analytic review from 2024….

Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and…

A vessel carrying African migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, killing dozens, the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Sunday.
Sixty-eight of some 154 migrants on board the boat died when…