1/3 Members of the community embrace during a prayer service and candlelight vigil at Bridgewood Church in Clarkston, Mich., a day after a 15-year-old student killed four classmates at Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich. Photo by Nic Antaya/EPA-EFE Dec. 3 (UPI) — The parents of the Michigan teenager accused of killing four classmates in…Continue Reading
Information-seeking may be governed by effects of what is learned on personal feelings, according to new research. File Photo by George Dolgikh/Shutterstock Dec. 3 (UPI) — People choose whether to seek or avoid information about their health, finances and personal traits based on how they think it will make them feel and how useful it…Continue Reading
Dec. 3 (UPI) — Customers and employees at an Ikea store in Denmark spent the night on the furniture store’s display beds after they became stranded by a snowstorm. Peter Elmose, manager at the Ikea store in Aalborg, in the North Jutland region, said 31 people slept at the store Wednesday night when a snowstorm…Continue Reading
Dec. 3 (UPI) — A plumber working at Joel Osteen’s mega-church in Houston found a large amount of money hidden inside a wall seven years after $600,000 was reported stolen during a break-in. The plumber, who identified himself only as Justin, called into a KILT-FM morning show to recount how he found envelopes full of…Continue Reading
SynopsisU.S. employers added 210,000 jobs last month, a U.S. Labor Department report showed Friday, less than half of what economists had expected. But average hourly earnings over the past 12 months rose 4.8 per cent, and the unemployment rate dropped to 4.2 per cent.AgenciesFederal Reserve policymakers look likely to accelerate the winddown of their bond-buying…Continue Reading
New Delhi: Markets regulator Sebi is in the process of putting in place disclosure for mutual fund schemes with the ESG (environment sustainability and governance) theme, its chief Ajay Tyagi said on Friday. Also, the regulator is examining the disclosure of ESG related aspects in the rating press release by credit rating agencies, he added.…Continue Reading
SynopsisNon-resident flows to emerging markets landed at $15.6 billion last month, compared with $18.6 billion in October and $115.5 billion in November 2020, IIF data showed on Friday.AgenciesNEW YORK: Portfolio flows to emerging markets slowed by $100 billion last month from a year earlier and decelerated from October, hit by increased bets on tighter U.S.…Continue Reading
The government is working towards developing platforms on education and healthcare, language translation, logistics and agriculture to develop an open API ecosystem, IT & telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday. Speaking at an industry event, he said that the idea was to create a super app for the private sector to eventually develop apps…Continue Reading
NEW DELHI: Among key bulk deals on BSE and NSE, a large chunk of shares of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences and Kirloskar Oil Engineering exchanged hands on Friday. Malabar Select Fund sold 4,01,224 shares of Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences () at Rs 1319.04 per share. On the other hand, Nalanda India Equity Fund…Continue Reading
West Bengal government on Friday directed that travellers from countries affected by Omicron to the state will be required to stay in isolation for seven days, a senior official said. Travellers flying in from other parts of the country will have to furnish their reports of RTPCR tests as the threat of Omicron, the COVID…Continue Reading