UFOs are real and there is life out there. That might be the conclusion some will reach upon hearing that news that Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the moon, and two other deceased astronauts passed lie detector tests over what they saw during their space missions. Of course, that only means […]

Shares slump almost 50% as investors fret over firm’s outlook U.S. actions may have ‘materially adverse’ impact on company The giant aluminum producer owned by Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska plunged 50 percent in Hong Kong trading after U.S. sanctions cast doubt on the future of the company’s banking and trading relationships. Prices of the metal, vital for […]

Leading cryptocurrency bitcoin has had a difficult month, with its value falling more than $3,000 between mid-March and early April. With the bitcoin price currently sitting at around $7,100, the virtual coin has lost 63% of its value since peaking at $19,300 in December 2017. However, while the instability of bitcoin may put some off, two of the financial world’s leading […]

Crypto markets turn positive over the news of some big industry giants from the world of finance joining the crypto space. In the last seven days, Bitcoin’s price movements have been quite dicy and unpredictable as the cryptocurrency was spotted to be trading dangerously close to its ‘death cross‘ levels. According to the Bitcoin charts on CoinMarkeCap, Bitcoin’s […]

Shares of Amazon, Apple and Alphabet all rose more than 1.5 percent. Facebook, meanwhile, traded 1.1 percent higher. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday he does not expect a trade war between the U.S. and China to take place. Mnuchin made his comments after telling CNBC’s “Power Lunch” on Friday that a trade war […]

It looks like Chrome is finally going to get a new design in the second half of this year. There is a rumor going around that Material Design 2 is going to come to Chrome in the beginning of September. This has not been officially confirmed but the hint has been dropped by one of Google’s employees. […]

I’ve noticed a weird pattern, in fiction and life, about sexual encounters: women decide they’re not attracted to a guy they’re nestling with. Limerence is not in the cards. But they go ahead and have sex anyhow. First, we have college student Margot in the New Yorker’s much-discussed short fictional story Cat Person who recoils as she watches […]

New European research has found that a naturally occurring pigment in berries could increase the function of an enzyme which reduces the expression of cancer genes and cancer cell growth. Carried out by the University of Eastern Finland, the study looked at the effect of the pigments that give berries their color, known as flavonoids, […]

VATICAN CITY — A monsignor who had been recalled to the Vatican as a diplomat in the Holy See’s Washington Embassy was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of possessing child pornography in the United States and Canada. Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella was arrested by the Vatican police on a warrant issued by the Holy See’s […]

The former Observer Magazine editor moved to Cuba to write a book – but with its crumbling elegance and sense of drama Havana presents plenty of distractions from the job at hand The grand windows of Casa Almson are flung wide, the trade winds offering a gentle breeze off the Florida straits as the sun […]