Getty Images Rare earths are notoriously difficult to extract and refine Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to invest A$1.2bn (£580m) in a strategic reserve for critical minerals if he wins next month’s election, as trade tensions escalate. The announcement came after China imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements, essential to the […]
Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” as a teenager to rich and powerful predators, including Prince Andrew of Britain, died on Friday at her farm in Western Australia. She was 41. Ms. Giuffre died by suicide, according to a statement […]
Getty Images Trump’s dissatisfaction with Powell started almost immediately US President Donald Trump has some well-known nemeses: illegal immigrants, low-flow showers and last, but definitely not least, the head of the US central bank. Elevated by Trump to lead the Federal Reserve starting in 2018, Jerome Powell almost immediately found himself under fire – described […]
Same cereal. Same sugary taste. Different hues. A box of Froot Loops sold in the United States contains vivid rings of red, orange, green, purple, yellow and blue — neon colors derived from synthetic dyes, like Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5, Blue No. 1 and Yellow No. 6. In a box sold in Canada, […]
Sale made a blistering start to the game and took the lead in the second minute when Ford burst through before passing to Reed, who set up Ma’asi-White to dive into the corner. A big scuffle immediately broke out between both sets of players, which started after Tom Curry reacted to a late challenge from […]
As Apple grapples with United States President Donald Trump’s tariff war with China, it has laid out plans to move to Indian assembly of the majority of iPhones it sells in the US by the end of 2026, a move that would double its current output from the South Asian nation and away from China. […]
David Paton, an idealistic and innovative ophthalmologist who started Project Orbis, converting a United Airlines jet into a flying hospital that took surgeons to developing countries to operate on patients and educate local doctors, died on April 3 at his home in Reno, Nev. He was 94. His death was confirmed by his son, Townley. […]
Ruben Amorim has said he is convinced that Manchester United can land their summer targets even after a disastrous season which could end in failure to qualify for European competition. United’s hopes of reaching the Champions League rest on winning the Europa League. Even if they lift the trophy, Amorim’s team remain on course for […]
If the trade war between China and the United States is a game of high-stakes brinkmanship, it is currently a game that Beijing is not willing to play. Faced with growing claims by President Trump and administration officials that the two countries are engaged in talks and that a deal could be reached in a […]
Life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is slow, dark and quiet. Strange creatures glitter and glow. Oxygen seeps mysteriously from lumpy, metallic rocks. There is little to disturb these deep-ocean denizens. “There’s weird life down here,” said Bethany Orcutt, a geomicrobiologist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. Research in the deep sea is […]