A video has captured a woman in India miraculously escaping injury after a water tank fell from a roof and landed perfectly around her. The incident happened in Surat earlier this month after the woman was returning home from a Hindu temple where she had just offered donations to the local deities, according to … Read more
In 1982, a discovery made by a sponge diver prompted archaeologists to complete 22,000 dives to excavate the area of the Uluburun shipwreck. The 3,300-year-old shipwreck was initially discovered by a diver off the Mediterranean coast of Turkey near Kaş, according to the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA)’s website, who excavated the area. The area … Read more
Airplane fuselages bound for Boeing’s 737 Max production facility await shipment on rail sidings at their top supplier, Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc., in Wichita, Kansas, on Dec. 17, 2019. Nick Oxford | Reuters Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems will furlough some 700 workers as a strike by machinists at the planemaker enters its sixth week, a … Read more
ECB and Fed will be ‘fairly synchronized’ when it comes to pace of rate cuts, portfolio manager says The European Central Bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve will likely cut interest rates at a relatively similar pace as their respective rate cutting cycles are underway, Konstantin Veit, portfolio manager at Pimco, told CNBC’s “Street Signs … Read more
Venezuelan authorities have arrested five foreign nationals in connection with an alleged anti-government plot, the latest in a wave of arrests following July’s contested presidential election. The country’s interior minister Diosdado Cabello said on Thursday that the five – three Americans, a Bolivian and a Peruvian – had engaged in a plan to destabilise the … Read more
Ray Dalio, billionaire and founder of Bridgewater Associates LP, during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York US, on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images China must employ a “beautiful deleveraging” in addition to its recent stimulus measures in order to avoid a debt crisis, said Bridgewater Associates founder … Read more
A VW Golf GTI stands in a parking lot within sight of the brand tower on the grounds of the VW plant in Wolfsburg, Germany. Julian Stratenschulte| Picture Alliance | Getty Images Germany’s automotive sector, long recognized for producing reliable and innovative internal combustion engine (ICE) cars, is struggling to preserve its relevance in the … Read more
Hamas on Friday is admitting to suffering “very painful and distressing” losses following the killing of its leader Yahya Sinwar as the Israeli military has released new drone video capturing the final moments of the terrorist’s life. Footage taken of a wounded Sinwar shows him throwing a wooden board at a drone that was surveying … Read more
South Korea’s spy agency says North Korea is set to send as many as 12,000 troops to fight with Russia in Ukraine, in what Seoul described as a “grave security threat”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier said 10,000 North Korean soldiers could join the war, based on intelligence information. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol … Read more
MacArthur Foundation Shailaja Paik is among 22 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur “genius” fellowship this year In a small, crowded tenement in the slums of India’s Pune city, Shailaja Paik grew up, surrounded by alleys strewn with garbage and battling the daily challenges of limited water and no private toilet. Today, she stands as one … Read more