To mark May the 4th (be with you), the noon-hour carillon concert on Parliament Hill featured one of the themes from Star Wars.
London's FTSE 100 stocks index hit record highs Tuesday, catching up with major global peers that have struck all-time peaks this year as inflation cools.London's FTSE 100 reached 8,076.52 points shortly after the open, surpassing a record 8,047.06 struck in February last year, though it pared down gains in afternoon deals.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said on Tuesday a peace deal with Armenia was closer than ever before, as teams from both countries began demarcating the border in a bid to end decades of territorial disputes and clashes."We are close as never before," Aliyev said on Tuesday of an elusive peace deal.
A Palestinian rights group's legal challenge to try to stop British arms exports to Israel over allegations of breaches of international law in the war in Gaza will be heard in October at London's High Court, a judge ruled on Tuesday. West Bank-based Al-Haq, which documents alleged rights violations by Israel and the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, is taking legal action against Britain over export licences for weapons and military equipment.
Microsoft said on Tuesday that Coca-Cola had signed a $1.1 billion five-year deal to use its cloud computing and artificial intelligence services. Coca-Cola had in 2020 signed a five-year deal worth $250 million to use Microsoft's cloud and business software. The two companies said Coca-Cola would test Microsoft's Copilot offerings to see how the tools improve productivity for the beverage maker.
Columbia University, the epicenter of the demonstrations, said classes will provide a virtual learning option through the end of the semester.
A new memorial opened on Tuesday in the Czech Republic on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp for Roma, after a communist-era pig farm was removed. “It’s very positive news for me that the whole project was completed,” said Jana Horvathova, the director of the Museum of Romani Culture, whose organization is in charge of the memorial. Roma and human rights activists had long demanded the removal of the farm from Lety, 60 miles (95 kilometers) south of Prague, where some 1,300 Czech Roma were sent between August 1942 and August 1943 during the Nazi occupation of what was then Czechoslovakia in World War II.
The wait for Tesla results is on as investors look to Big Tech earnings to buoy stocks.
GM results beat expectations as the automaker cited a "resilient" consumer driving sales and profits higher.
EU lawmakers voted on Tuesday to ban products made using forced labour which supporters hope will be used to block goods from China, at the risk of raising tensions with Beijing.The law does not directly mention China, but many lawmakers hope it will be used to block imports from China involving the region where the Uyghur Muslim minority lives.
MAILUU-SUU, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed. Dams holding some 700,000 cubic meters (185 million gallons) of uranium mine tailings in Kyrgyzstan have become unreliable following a 2017 landslide. A further landslide or earthquake could send their contents into a river system used to irrigate Kyrgyz, Uzbek and Tajik farmlands, the studies at the Soviet-era radioactive waste disposal facility showed.
GM CFO says the demand for EVs in America will be up and down.
The emir of Qatar landed in Nepal Tuesday on his first-ever visit to the South Asian country, after visiting Bangladesh and the Philippines, where improving migrant workers' conditions in the Gulf state and a Nepali student still held hostage by Hamas are expected to be on the agenda. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is set to meet Nepali dignitaries, including President Ram Chandra Poudyal and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal during his two-day visit.
In “Our Kindred Creatures,” authors Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy explore the origins of the animal welfare movement and follow the activists who influenced how we treat dogs and cats today.
Americans who are struggling need wealth-building interventions like baby bonds, write Natalie Foster and Darrick Hamilton.
Better known for his huge photographic collages, French artist JR presents a smaller scale project for the Venice Biennale this year that still aims to "change perspectives" -- this time through rail travel."That's still what I do today: travelling, exposing people to images, changing perspectives, but above all questioning," said the artist.
The facts of heat crisis in U.S. prisons is tragic enough. But there are also wider implications we shouldn't ignore.
How TIME and Statista determined the world's top EdTech companies of 2024.
Greece is holding a three-day disaster exercise on the tourist island of Crete with both visitors and operators stressing the need to prepare for emergencies, including quakes and fires.Ronni Aram, a tourist from Germany taking part in the drill, said it was "absolutely essential when it comes to the case of a real emergency that everyone is prepared and knows what to do so that everyone will be safe".
Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he's in New York for his criminal hush money trial. The presumptive GOP nominee will host former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso at Trump Tower on Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the plans who spoke on condition of anonymity because they had not been formally announced. Aso is just the latest foreign leader to spend time with Trump in recent weeks as U.S. allies prepare for the possibility that he could win back the White House this November.
A judge considers whether Donald Trump violated a gag order. Arrests on college campuses over Gaza war protests. Senate to vote on foreign aid bill. Old age study shows shifting perceptions.
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