This article is part of a Women and Leadership special report highlighting women who are charting new pathways and fighting for opportunities for women and others. Growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, Lina Abou-Habib regularly faced discrimination because of her gender and witnessed inequality for women, she said. “People think of Lebanon as a contemporary, open […]
Figma, a cloud-based design platform, has met with investment banks in recent weeks to discuss an initial public offering that could come as soon as this year, two people with knowledge of the matter said. In 2023, European and U.S. regulators stymied an effort by the software giant Adobe to buy Figma for $20 billion. […]
For SpaceX, 2025 should have been the best year yet. Elon Musk, the founder of the private space company, is one of the most influential people in the Oval Office, and President Trump has endorsed his vision of sending humans to Mars. But so far, it has not been a great year for the rocket […]
They were conned by skilled online criminals into draining their retirement savings. After the shock, shame and grief that followed, the victims were often left with something else: an enormous income tax bill. Mary Ellen Strange, a 75-year-old widow who was deceived by fraudsters impersonating federal investigators, now owes the Internal Revenue Service an estimated […]
In 2013, Jessica Lessin, a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, left the paper to start a competing publication, The Information. A few years later, her fledgling newsroom had grown to nearly two dozen reporters and editors and booked more than $20 million in sales, as she revealed in a profile I wrote for The […]
Nadine Yousif and Ali Abbas Ahmadi BBC News, Toronto Watch: Canadian liquor store clears out US alcohol in response to tariffs Not long after the US imposed their tariffs on Canada, a local neighbourhood pub in Toronto began removing all American products off their menu. That means nachos, wings – and of course, beer – […]
Victoria Gill Science correspondent, BBC News University of Cambridge The gene the researchers identified interferes with a brain signalling pathway that helps regulate our appetite Dogs that are constantly hungry and prone to being overweight share a common bit of biology with some obesity-prone humans. This is what UK scientists have discovered – identifying a […]
Mikel Arteta has urged Myles Lewis-Skelly to “learn his lesson” and avoid becoming a “liability” again at left-back following his first-half substitution in Tuesday’s 7-1 thrashing of PSV Eindhoven. The Gunners became the first team in Champions League knockout history to score seven goals away from home in a night of near-total dominance but Arteta […]
[HEADLINE: We promise to tell readers where to watch and stream, but we don’t include that info in the story] Who: Manchester United vs ArsenalWhat: English Premier LeagueWhen: Sunday at 4:30pm (16:30 GMT)Where: Old Trafford, Manchester, United KingdomFollow Al Jazeera Sport‘s live text and photo commentary stream. Arsenal will seek to maintain their challenge for […]
President Trump’s family business sued Capital One on Friday for “unjustifiably terminating” more than 300 of its bank accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the latest sign that the president and his allies are seeking retribution against those who once shunned them. In a complaint filed in state court in Florida, […]