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US Orders China's Houston Consulate To Close, Citing 'Massive Illegal Spying'

In Houston, firefighters responded to reports of papers being burned on the consulate grounds Tuesday night but were barred entry, according to news media rep...

QF7474 - The Final Qantas 747 Flight

Speaking about the 747 and its impact on Qantas and Australia, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said, "It's hard to overstate the impact that the 747 had on aviation and a...

Asian Stocks Set to Slip; Dollar Extends Retreat: Markets Wrap

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Emergency Services on Scene of Fire at Chinese Consulate General in Houston

These actions have come as Trump has sought to blame China for the coronavirus outbreak in the US, where cases have soared, threatening his prospects for reelec...

Gold sprints to nine-year peak on softer dollar, stimulus bets

Spot gold was up 0.9% at $1,857.86 per ounce by 0232 GMT, after hitting its highest since September 2011 at $1,865.35 earlier in the session. "Relentless mone...

Rubio: Chinese Consulate 'Central Node of a Massive Spy Operation'

A news reporter's video showed several people surrounding multiple trash cans with documents on fire, in the consulate's courtyard. The United States governme...

Canada Annual Inflation Rate Rises 0.7% in June

According to National Bank of Canada's analysts, Matthieu Arseneau and Kyle Dahms, point out that despite the significant economic shock from the coronavirus, u...

McConnell Says More Direct Cash Payments Likely Coming This Summer

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows started the day saying their goal was to get a stimulus bill out of Congress by ...

Coronavirus: Above-inflation pay rise for nearly 900,000 public sector workers

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Australian music industry welcomes JobKeeper extension

Mr Frydenberg will announce that across the 2019-20 and 2020-21 financial years, company tax receipts are expected to slump by $25 billion, putting a further de...

Jeff Bezos sets new record in his net worth

The tech tycoon has added $74.4 billion to his wealth so far this year amid a 73 percent surge in Amazon's stock price. Jeff Bezos' net worth is now more th...

Thousands to walk off job Monday to protest racial inequality

This was the time span during which unarmed African-American man George Floyd was suppressed by a white police officer in Minneapolis who knelt on his neck un...

Ballots are on the way for Washington's August 4 Primary

In elections prior, mail-in applications were done in-person. Andino included in her letter solutions that have been adopted by other states, including allowi...

Gold Rally Outpaced by Silver While Net Long USD Exposure Persists

Investors have flocked to the precious metals on surging demand for havens amid a resurgence in virus cases, slowing growth and negative real interest rates...

Walmart to close Thanksgiving Day 2020

Walmart announced today that its US stores will be closed on Thanksgiving Day this year, signaling that this year's Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping coul...

Euro down from four-month high; hopes for European Union fund remain

AstraZeneca shares rose 1.45% after hitting a record high on news its COVID-19 vaccine was safe and produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trial...

Congressional Republicans, Democrats push toward new coronavirus aid bill

Mnuchin vowed passage by month's end, as a $600 boost in jobless aid is set to expire, and said he expected a fresh $ 1 trillion jolt of business tax breaks ...

Pooled Sampling Now Authorized to Reduce Testing Backlogs

Stephen Hahn mentioned in the statement . Pooling testing calls for the combination of individual specimen vials into small batches by laboratory investigato...

KFC Tests 3D-Printed Chicken Nuggets in Russian Federation

The effort is part of KFC's concept of creating a " restaurant of the future", which leverages state-of-the-art technology like 3D bioprinting to overcome solu...

New Shocking Claims Could End Ellen's Career — Ellen DeGeneres Doomed

One current and 10 former employees anonymously spoke with BuzzFeed News about their experience on The Ellen DeGeneres Show . Executive producers Ed Glavi...

Schnucks Will Require Customers to Wear Face Coverings in All Stores

The statement from the company said that they were adhering to all local safety mandates within the stores and encouraging those who are able to wear face cov...

Disney cuts ad spending on Facebook amid growing boycott

Representatives for Disney did not immediately respond to a Sunday message seeking comment. The move by Disney to scale back advertising with Facebook comes a...

Tech CEO Fahim Saleh Found Decapitated, Dismembered in New York City

No arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing. An electrical saw was found plugged to an outlet on the crime scene. Police found that Sal...

US, India deepen energy ties; begin collaboration on strategic petroleum reserves

In the run up to today's meeting, US Secretary of Energy and I co-chaired industry-level interaction on 15th July organized by US-India Business Council (USIBC)...

June unemployment in NY state almost 16%

The addition of 138,700 jobs in two months is a much needed boost for a state that was hit harder than most by the coronavirus pandemic . The biggest job los...

Mortgage Rates Below 3 Percent for First Time in 50 Years

The average rate for a five-year Treasury-indexed hybrid adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) was 3.06%, up from 3.02% last week but down from 3.48% a year ago. eco...

Rio Tinto: Copper Squeeze Could Worsen Amid Patchy Virus Rebound

Half-year shipments were 3% higher than a year earlier at 159.6 million tons and were achieved despite damage to infrastructure such as access roads, accommodat...

Cloudflare says outage not result of attack as several data centers affected

Several internet sites went down due to the outage, including Discord , Shopify, Feedly, Politico and League of Legends, according to DownDetector . The cha...

China's economy grows 3.2% as virus lockdowns lifted

This comes after the economy faced a sharp contraction of 6.8% in the first quarter of the year. On a quarter-on-quarter basis, GDP jumped 11.5% in April-June...

Oil prices slip amid uncertainty over fuel demand, easing supply curbs

Covid-19 has had an unprecedented impact on global economy; oil market fundamentals have been shaken to the core in 2020; global demand witnessed the worst de...

Instagram's redesigned shopping hub goes live in the US

Now, Reels is set to roll out in the US and about 50 other countries. A Facebook representative confirmed the launch of Reels on Thursday. The decision to...

China’s economy roars back to growth after record coronavirus contraction

On a slowdown mode, China's economy grew by 6.1 per cent in 2019, the lowest annual growth rate in 29 years amid the bruising trade war with the United States...

God could not save the Queen: British Airways retires Boeing 747

British Airways operated its first 747 flight from London to NY in 1971 and is the first aircraft to have been christened a "jumbo jet" and for years was a sym...

United Kingdom payrolls decline by 649,000 between March and June

A survey of 7,400 firms by the British Chambers of Commerce revealed that almost a third of businesses expect to decrease the size of their workforce in the nex...

Radical new Nissan Ariya electric SUV revealed

Nissan expects sales of its electrified models to be more than 1 million units a year by the end of fiscal 2023. Pricing in the USA will start around $40,000. A...