A landmark report released Thursday by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy places drug and alcohol addiction alongside smoking, AIDS and other public health crises of the past half-century, calling the current epidemic “a moral test for America.” “The reason I’m issuing this report is I want to call our country ... Read More »
The digitisation amongst enterprises leads to increasing adoption of startup technologies. With 50 percent of enterprise-ready startups, banking, retail, and healthcare are the top adopters of the enterprise technology solutions, according to the Ecosystem Report on Enterprise ReadyStartups 2016 released by Microsoft Accelerator. In the wake of digital transformation across ... Read More »
Yahoo has downplayed a report that said it had scanned millions of its users’ emails on behalf of the US government. Reuters made the allegation on Tuesday, saying Yahoo had created special software to comply with a classified directive. The tech firm said the article was “misleading” but did not ... Read More »
– U.S. services companies grew last month at the fastest pace in nearly a year, potential good news for the U.S. economy. The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its services index jumped to 57.1 in September, the highest point since October, from August’s 51.4, the lowest since 2010. ... Read More »
Donald Trump’s campaign manager downplayed an investigative report in Newsweek on Thursday that the candidate violated the Cuba embargo by spending money there in the 1990s to explore a potential real estate investment. In the report, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts partnered with Seven Arrows Investment and Development Corp. to ... Read More »
Former Cabinet Secretary and head of the committee on the new education policy, T.S.R. Subramanian tells The Hindu that the government published only extracts of the report submitted by the committee , as the report was critical of India’s journey in education. The title of your committee on the new ... Read More »
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian police have recommended that U.S. swimmers Ryan Lochte and Jimmy Feigen be indicted on charges of falsely reporting a crime in Rio de Janeiro, Federal Police of Brazil told ABC News. A Brazilian police official told The Associated Press that Lochte fabricated a story about ... Read More »
Despite his anti-China rhetoric, Beijing may prefer U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for his promised anti-terror campaign against the Islamic State, which is reportedly attracting militant groups from its Muslim-majority Xinjiang region, state media reported on Wednesday. “Trump’s foreign policy, which centres around ... Read More »
European shares close lower A number of disappointing company results – from brewer Carlsberg, Austrian brickmaker Wienerberger and insurer Admiral – helped send stock markets into negative territory. Investors were also nervous ahead of the latest US Federal Reserve minutes, and what they might hint about the course of interest ... Read More »
Police in North Carolina are investigating a report of shots fired inside a shopping mall after social media posts showed people rushing toward the exits in a panic. Police in Raleigh, N.C., said no one was shot in the incident, which was reported around 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Crabtree ... Read More »
Public executions staged in North Korea have increased in 2016 and a state surveillance organization founded under Kim Jong Un is enforcing tough measures to keep the population under control. A source on North Korea who spoke to Yonhap on the condition of anonymity said the number of people publicly ... Read More »
Police in North Carolina are investigating a report of shots fired inside a shopping mall after social media posts showed people rushing toward the exits in a panic. Police in Raleigh, N.C., said no one was shot in the incident, which was reported around 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Crabtree ... Read More »
