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The UK government is considering temporary renationalisation of indebted Thames Water, Britain’s biggest supplier of the commodity, media reports said Wednesday, one day after...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has softened her once strident anti-EU views but the ratification of a reform to the eurozone’s bailout fund has...
Global heating incrementally boosts the intensity of extreme rainfall at higher altitudes, putting two billion people living in or downstream from mountains at greater...
Mangled debris recovered from the small submersible that was destroyed when it imploded during a recent dive to the Titanic wreck was offloaded Wednesday...
Sri Lanka’s central bank on Thursday unveiled its domestic debt restructuring plan, envisaging a 30 percent haircut on dollar-denominated bonds, including international sovereign bonds....
Many masterpieces of Iraqi painting were looted or destroyed during the years of war, but now the country’s artistic heritage faces another threat: rampant...
French billionaire and luxury brand magnate Bernard Arnault is in China this week, social media posts showed, the latest visit by a foreign executive...
Most markets rose in Asia on Thursday, building on the previous day’s advances, even after central bank chiefs warned that interest rates would rise...
In Colombia’s southern Guaviare department, on the doorstep of the Amazon, cattle ranchers are engaged in a practice that belies their jungle-wrecking reputation. They...
Hollywood’s summer of discontent could dramatically escalate this weekend, with actors ready to join writers in a massive “double strike” that would bring nearly...
Virgin Galactic is set Thursday to finally begin commercial spaceflights, a major milestone for the company founded in 2004 by British billionaire Richard Branson....