A meteor lit up the sky over Botswana, Africa, early Saturday evening. Scientists discovered the six-foot-wide asteroid just hours before it reached Earth. NASA tracks 90 percent of near-Earth objects that are larger than 150 meters (~460 feet) in diameter, which means it misses lots of the smaller ones until they’re close by. This most […]
Twitter jumped as much as 5 percent in extended trading on Monday, after Dow Jones Indices announced the social media company would replace Monsanto in the S&P 500. Another tech company, Netflix will fill the agricultural giant’s place on the S&P 100. The gains pushed Twitter stock above $39 a share after hours, extending earlier […]
Howard Schultz is leaving Starbucks — and says he may consider running for president. Starbucks (SBUX) announced Monday that Schultz will step down later this month as executive chairman, the end of a 36-year run at the company. In an interview with The New York Times, he acknowledged that he may consider a bid for […]
Most women with early-stage breast cancer may be able to avoid chemotherapy, a new study finds. Researchers determined that patients with smaller-sized tumors that had not spread to the lymph nodes did just as well without chemo as those who got the treatment, according to the study presented Sunday at the American Society of Clinical […]
Three crew members from the International Space Station (ISS) have arrived safely back on Earth after a mission of more than five months. A Soyuz capsule carrying Russian Anton Shkaplerov, American Scott Tingle and Japan’s Norishige Kanai floated down under a red-and-white parachute for a landing on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Footage from the Russian […]
Asian shares rose to their highest in two-and-a-half-weeks on Monday as strong U.S. jobs data offset worries that tariff wars between the United States and the rest of the world could retard global economic growth. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 1.0 percent to a high last seen on May 17, while […]
Global airlines and aviation executives warned on Sunday about growing international trade tensions, saying they could damage the airline industry and the world economy. The Trump administration has renewed tariff threats against China, while key U.S. allies Canada, Mexico and the European Union have been hit with duties on steel and aluminium. Alexandre de Juniac, […]
COOL DOWN FROM YOUR workout and pound protein. It’s a routine that most gym lovers have down pat – and when we slip up, we hope that all of our sweat wasn’t in vain. The so-called “anabolic window” refers to a short period of time following workouts, during which exercisers need to consume protein for […]
SpaceX, the rocket company founded by tech billionaire Elon Musk, is just as likely to grab headlines as NASA these days. But if you’re having a hard time keeping up with SpaceX’s plans to reshape the spaceflight industry, replace international flights with orbital rocket launches, create a global broadband network and build a huge human […]
The black unemployment rate has fallen below 6 percent for the first time, setting a new record that suggests progress is being made toward closing a longstanding employment gap between blacks and whites — but also offering a reminder that there’s a long way to go before it disappears completely. The new figures from the […]
Government officials will have planned the move in the utmost secrecy, telling their European partners only that same evening while simultaneously ordering the shutdown of banks and financial markets to prevent a stampede of capital out of the country. This is “Italy’s Plan B”, an eye-popping contingency scenario drawn up by the team at a […]
When Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett makes investing decisions, he focuses on one thing only: the facts. “You have to be able to play out your hand under all circumstances,” Buffett told shareholders in 2006. “But if you can play out your hand, and you’ve got the right facts, and you reason by yourself, and […]
