Musk Trial Will Decide Fate of $56 Billion Tesla Pay
A trial opened on Monday, Nov. 14 over shareholder allegations that Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk's...
Crypto Finance Needs ‘Strong Regulation’: Federal Reserve
Plagued by volatility and turmoil in recent months, the cryptocurrency market shows the need for it to...
Canadian Personal Bankruptcies Surge by 22.5% in Third Quarter; Economy Sputtering
According to data, recently released by Statistics Canada, consumer insolvencies in Canada soared by...
UK Club Owner Gets 6 Months in Jail After Serving Mince Pies During Lockdown
A 72-year-old Brit has been sentenced to six months in prison for "perverting the course of justice"...
The Dunhuang Caves: An Earthly Glimpse Into Otherworldly Realms
In China’s northwest, on the edge of the Gobi Desert, lies a town that was once a blessed stopover for the weary Silk Road traveler: the city of Dunhuang. Surrounded by majestic sand dunes that...
Biden and Xi to Meet Face-to-Face as Superpower Relations Mired in Tensions
By Nandita Bose, Simon Lewis, and David Brunnstrom, Reuters U.S. President Joe Biden will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in person on Monday for the first time since taking office, with U.S. concerns over Taiwan, Russia's war in Ukraine, and North Korea's nuclear ambitions on...
Musk Says Twitter to Soon Enable Organizations to Identify Their Associated Accounts
Twitter's billionaire owner Elon Musk on Sunday said that Twitter would soon enable organizations to identify Twitter accounts associated with them as the new Twitter owner continues to find ways to limit fake accounts on...
Six Dead in Istanbul Blast, Erdogan Says it ‘Smells Like Terrorism’
By David Gauthier-Villars, Azra Ceylan and Ece Toksabay ISTANBUL - Six people were killed and 81 others wounded on Sunday when an explosion rocked a busy pedestrian street in central Istanbul in what Turkish President...
Spain Releases Stamp Celebrating Communist Party’s 100 Year Anniversary
Spain’s official post office has released a stamp celebrating the 100th anniversary of the country’s Communist Party and its Marxist-Leninist ideology. Posted on the official webpage of Correos, the Spanish Post, the stamp, featuring a...
The Orchid Pavilion: A Celebration of Beauty in Poetry, Calligraphy, and Music
It was the third day of the third lunar month of the year 353. Wang Xizhi, the greatest calligrapher in Chinese history, had invited a group of family and friends to his Orchid Pavilion in...
Reading the Results of China’s 20th Party Congress
Many observers believe that General Secretary Xi Jinping scored an overwhelming victory at the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th Party Congress. They note that the new Politburo and its Standing Committee are stacked with Xi’s allies,...
Brazil’s Central Bank Chief Says Fiscal Prudence Crucial Amid Political Protests and Inflation
BRASILIA, BRAZIL — Brazil's central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto emphatically defended the need for fiscal balance on Friday, Nov. 11 following up statements by leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that soured the...