Hedge-fund manager George Jarkesy said he didn’t recall over 800 times during SEC questioning, with a judge saying he "generally testified in an evasive manner." [...]

Arrivals into Europe from Russia's key buyer, India, are on course to soar to 305,000 barrels a day — the most since at least January 2017. [...]

Before he became a billionaire by transforming his father’s company into Netflix’s biggest competitor in Japan, Yasuhide Uno wanted nothing to do with the business. [...]

Jones had been receiving a salary of $520,000 a year, but a court-appointed restructuring officer just tripled that, which the judge rejected. [...]

The fast-fashion firm has filed to go public, in what could be one of the largest U.S. market debuts in years. [...]

Currencies around the world have weakened against the dollar, but the rupee has held strong, as virtually everything has gone right for India. [...]

The China-founded online fashion company was valued at $66 billion earlier this year. [...]

Recent data has fueled bets that cuts could come under a variety of circumstances. [...]

In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork, and technological hegemony have made it virtually impossible for grassroots cadres to perform any meaningful work. Despite Chinese Communist Party [...]

Mao Anying, Mao Zedong’s son, was killed by American bombers on November 25, 1950 while fighting in the Korean War. A persistent, unfounded, rumor (officially tagged as “historically nihilist”) holds that the younger Mao gave away his position by making egg fried rice on the [...]

In the latest installment in our interview series focusing on Tibet, we talk to Tenzin Norgay, a Research Analyst at the International Campaign for Tibet, where he has written reports on surveillance, propaganda, and the political leadership of the Tibetan Autonomous Region. He previously worked [...]

In this poetic essay, first published in Matters, author Lola muses on the various types of walls that restrict our freedom of speech, thought, movement, and association:  Article translated by Little Bluegill. Poem translated by Cindy Carter. [...]

COVID-19 caused an alarming surge in premature births, but vaccines were key to returning the early birth rate to pre-pandemic levels, according to a new analysis of California birth records. [...]

Hair products often contain ingredients that easily evaporate, so users may inhale some of these chemicals, potentially posing health repercussions. Now, researchers have studied emissions of these volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including siloxanes, which shine and smooth hair. The scientists report that using these hair [...]

Scientists have made a surprising discovery that sheds new light on the role that oceanic deoxygenation (anoxia) played in one of the most devastating extinction events in Earth's history. Their finding has implications for current day ecosystems -- and serves as a warning that marine [...]

Carbon capture is essential to reduce the impact of human carbon dioxide emissions on our climate. Researchers have developed a method to confirm whether carbon in concrete originates from the raw materials, or from carbon in the air which has been trapped when it reacts [...]

Ema and Yuly Cunio were let go with their mother on the fourth day of a truce between Israel and Hamas. [...]

The UAE, hosts of the COP28 climate summit, are breaking their own ban on gas flaring, the BBC finds. [...]

With a bullet lodged in his spine, Hisham Awartani phoned his British-born grandmother after Saturday's shooting. [...]

It comes after a four-day pause where hostages in Gaza and prisoners in Israel have been released. [...]

Negotiators have agreed to add two more days to the fighting pause that has brought temporary relief to civilians in Gaza. [...]

Dismissing the summit because its host is an oil producer is hypocritical and dangerous. [...]

The Hamas attack demolished his political standing, but Bibi has a survival strategy. [...]

Using Russian money for Ukraine reconstruction seems attractive but has major implications. [...]

[allAfrica] Harare -- The military administration of Niger repealed anti-migration legislation that helped in lowering the number of West Africans travelling to Europe, but was despised by residents of the desert whose businesses depended on the traffic, BBC reports. [...]

[allAfrica] Eleven miners died in an incident at the Impala Rustenburg platinum mine in the North West province of South Africa, according to Implats, one of the world's foremost producers of platinum and associated platinum group metals. [...]

[allAfrica] Lusaka, Zambia -- Africa is on a mission to strengthen its healthcare systems and become more self-reliant in public health. [...]

[allAfrica] Step into the health clinics, operating theaters, or administrative offices of medical centers worldwide, and you'll likely notice a predominance of female faces. This is because women constitute almost 70% of the health workforce . Take a look at healthcare leadership and the picture [...]