Category: General Interest

Central banks around the world are turning to gold as an alternative to the US dollar, which they see as being undermined by America’s aggressive trade policy and geopolitical uncertainty. Gold is a chemical element and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur…

Voters in Germany’s most prosperous states, Hesse, upset Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives again in an election that was seen as a barometer of her and her party’s standing with the German public. Angela Merkel became the 34th Chancellor of Germany in 2005 and has since been in power. She…

British regulators slapped Facebook with a fine of £500,000 ($644,000) for failing to protect the privacy of its users in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Cambridge Analytica had accessed crucial user data on Facebook without consent during the 2016 US Presidential Elections. Cambridge Analytica is a private company founded in 2013..

Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific claims a “malicious, criminal attack” on its website hit over 9 million passengers. Data including passport numbers, identity card numbers, email addresses and credit card details had been accessed. The leak occurred just as the troubled airline battles..

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week issued a warning about illness it says it knows very little about that causes arm or leg weakness and paralysis, particularly in children. Acute flaccid myelitis is a rare disease that affects the spinal cord in children, and occasionally in adults..

The tablet-like voting machines for December’s election have been ordered and will arrive this month, despite suspicions by diplomats and the opposition that they can be tampered with. The vast central African country’s past elections have been marred by voting irregularities or violence..

On Monday, Twitter Inc confirmed that it has permanently removed 18 more accounts affiliated with Infowars, the website of U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as “tweets”..

Brazil’s leading presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday that, if he is elected, he intends to use the armed forces for routine street patrols, describing the country as “at war.” Crime and murder rates are near an all-time high in Brazil with the South American country recording..

Researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that papaverine, a drug that has been used as a muscle relaxant since 1848, could make radiation therapy more effective. Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. The disease…

2,000 Honduran Migrants have been making their way north through Guatemala, and have tried to cross into Mexico. Some believe their final destination is the United States. U.S President Donald Trump has said he would cut aid to Honduras and deploy the military to close…