MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say a fire killed eight people in a Moscow hostel where bars on the windows prevented occupants from escaping. The hostel was located in a multi-story apartment building in the Russian capital’s far southeast. About 200 people who lived in the building fled the fire. The blaze broke out in
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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian officials say a fire killed eight people in a Moscow hostel where bars on the windows prevented occupants from escaping. The hostel was located in a multi-story apartment building in the Russian capital’s far southeast. About 200 people who lived in the building fled the fire. The blaze broke out in
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — European shares advanced Friday after a mixed session in Asia, where Chinese markets retreated after the country’s leaders acknowledged the slowing economy won’t hit its official 5.5% growth target this year. Investors appear to have grown more convinced that the Federal Reserve may temper its aggressive
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — European shares advanced Friday after a mixed session in Asia, where Chinese markets retreated after the country’s leaders acknowledged the slowing economy won’t hit its official 5.5% growth target this year. Investors appear to have grown more convinced that the Federal Reserve may temper its aggressive
Continue ReadingBy Nicole Goodkind and Tal Yellin, CNN If you’re confused about whether the US economy is in a recession, you’re not alone. On one hand, gross domestic product, a key measure of economic output, shrank for the second straight quarter this week, raising fears that the country has entered — or will soon enter —
Continue ReadingBy Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter Limping away from one of the most significant terms in decades, justices are sending out flares expressing concern not only for the future of the Supreme Court but the country as a whole as institutional norms dissolve, tensions rise, and the court pivots right with the addition
Continue ReadingBy Ben Morse, CNN A huge crash during Stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes on Thursday left one rider needing hospital treatment. With 50km left of the longest stage of the race, an incident on a straight bit of road between Bar-le-Luc to Saint-die-des-Vosges quickly escalated into an enormous crash which saw half
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Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — En los últimos desarrollos de la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania, Kyiv afirma que las tropas rusas ya no pueden transportar armas pesadas a través de un puente clave en la región sur de Jersón después de que fue atacado repetidamente por la artillerÃa ucraniana de largo alcance. Entre tanto,
Continue ReadingBy Aya Elamroussi and Amanda Jackson, CNN Amid record-breaking rainfall, St. Louis resident Margaret Shellert is facing the full brunt of devastating back-to-back flooding events this week. After the region was hit with torrential rains Monday and Tuesday, a second round of storms Thursday exacerbated conditions even further for her and many in the city.
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has reported its profit edged up 3% in the last quarter, weathering production setbacks from COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai and a trend away from video games as pandemic restrictions eased elsewhere. Tokyo-based Sony’s April-June profit totaled 218 billion yen, or $1.6 billion. Quarterly sales rose
Continue Reading By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Sony has reported its profit edged up 3% in the last quarter, weathering production setbacks from COVID-19 lockdowns in Shanghai and a trend away from video games as pandemic restrictions eased elsewhere. Tokyo-based Sony’s April-June profit totaled 218 billion yen, or $1.6 billion. Quarterly sales rose
Continue Reading By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The crisis sparked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s potential visit to Taiwan misses a key point, experts say: that the real focus should be on how the United States and China manage their differences so the risks of confrontation don’t spiral out of control. News of
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business China’s top leadership has gone quiet on the growth targets it had set for the year, as the world’s second-largest economy continues to battle a largely self-inflicted economic slowdown. In early March, China’s government had said that the country would target gross domestic product growth of about 5.5% this year.
Continue Reading By FRANCESCA EBEL Associated Press TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisians have overwhelmingly approved a referendum on a new constitution that gives more powers to the country’s president. It’s a step that brings hope to many in the struggling North African nation, but critics warn it could return Tunisia to autocracy. Some people interviewed by The
Continue ReadingCNN By Elizabeth Wolfe and Theresa Waldrop, CNN At least 16 people are dead, including children, and the toll is “going to get a lot higher” following catastrophic flooding in Kentucky, Gov. Andy Beshear said Friday. An unknown number of people were missing, Beshear said at a news conference Friday morning, as rescuers scrambled to
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, Kathleen Magramo and Lauren Lau, CNN A back-up dancer for the Cantopop boy band Mirror is in intensive care after being hit by a giant video panel that fell from the ceiling during a concert in Hong Kong. Five people were injured when the panel — measuring about four square meters —
Continue Reading KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war captured during the fighting for Mariupol have been killed by Ukrainian shelling, Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine said. Daniil Bezsonov, a spokesman for the Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk region, said that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 130 were
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High demand and low supply have made renting a car more expensive than ever. CoPilot looked at Business Travel News’ Corporate Travel Index to find which cities had the most expensive car rentals.
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Giving Assistant examined data from the U.S. Census Bureau to find which states have exported the highest value of furniture so far this year.
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Cheap Insurance tracked 10 ways online shopping changed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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