NEW YORK  – Oil prices slid more than 1 percent on Tuesday as the dollar remained near a four-month high, but worries that U.S. President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market. The U.S. dollar .DXY surged into positive territory for 2018 and broke past key levels against several […]

If you’ve ever searched Amazon.com for something you wanted and then found yourself feeling like you’re being shunted toward things you aren’t entirely sure you want, you’re not alone. Fast Company’s Mark Wilson took that feeling to the next level, inviting a digital design studio to explore ways to make the Barron’s Next 50 company experience feel like a […]

Fed-up women working at Nike wanted to make change at their company—and after they banded together, they did just that. According to an investigation from the New York Times, a group of women employees secretly sent out questionnaires to other women working at the sportswear company, asking them about sexual harassment and discrimination. They dropped the results […]

The who, what, where of the future royal’s regimen. Since the November 2017 announcement of Prince Harry and Suits actress Meghan Markle’s engagement, the Internet has been a-buzz with Markle obsession, detailing her every fashion label and hairstyle donned. (And brands love the mentions; she wears it, it sells out, cha-ching.) She’s thrown love in the direction of British fashion […]

ANKARA/ISTANBUL, April 26 – The editor-in-chief of Turkey’s opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper said on Thursday he was unbowed by a government crackdown and would not abandon journalism, a day after a court sentenced him and more than a dozen colleagues to prison on terrorism charges. Murat Sabuncu was one of 14 Cumhuriyet staff given sentences ranging […]

A museum in Southern France has discovered more than half its collection of paintings thought to be by a celebrated local artist are counterfeit. And investigators say that works attributed to other regional artists could also be fakes. The quaint French village of Elne near the border with Spain is proud to be the hometown […]

On Sunday there will be a full pink moon hanging over the U.S. The term is used to refer to April’s full moon, but don’t expect to look up to the sky and find a blast of cotton-candy-pink. Despite its name, the pink moon is not rose colored, but that doesn’t make it any less spectacular […]

The boards of Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. struck an all-stock $26 billion merger that, if allowed by antitrust enforcers, would leave the U.S. wireless market dominated by three national players. It is the third time in recent years that the two rivals have attempted the combination. New technology, stiff competition from wireless rivals […]

NEW YORK  – Oil prices rose on Monday after Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran had lied about pursuing nuclear weapons after signing a 2015 deal with global powers, while U.S. stocks fell with declines in healthcare shares. Netanyahu said Iran had continued to preserve and expand its nuclear weapons knowledge after the deal. […]

(MENAFN – Khaleej Times) Smart Dubai launched a global network that will connect smart cities over the world and share Dubai’s knowledge and expertise in digital transformation, it was announced on Monday. The Smart Dubai Global Network aims to bring together cities that share a passion for advanced technology, Fourth-Industrial-Revolution breakthroughs, smart living and spreading […]