Gold futures settled higher on Thursday as weakness in the U.S. dollar and downbeat economic data helped the metal post its best finish in more than a year. April gold rose $16.40, or 1.3%, to settle at $1,258.20 an ounce. The settlement was the highest since Feb. 5, 2015, according to data from Dow Jones.
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Chris Christie addressed on Thursday his social-media moment at a Donald Trump press conference earlier in the week.
As Trump celebrated his "Super Tuesday" wins across a swath of presidential-primary states, Christie stood silently behind Trump.
Christie's facial expressions throughout the event quickly went viral, with countless observers speculating about how uncomfortable he looked.
At his own press conference in New Jersey on Thursday, Christie issued a lengthy rebuttal to his critics. Читать дальше...
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Citigroup is about to make a big new hire. Armando Diaz is set to return to the bank as global head of cash equities trading.
Bill Ackman's perpetual short target just handed him a nice win. Shares of Herbalife plunged after the company said it found "errant information"... Читать дальше...
Dallas president says caution warranted amid volatile markets
Two monkeys with brain implants have steered wheelchairs using only their minds, a step forward for a field seeking to mobilize people with paralysis.
Panda has been guarding this baby since he was still in the womb.
This is Liel Ainmar Assayag and her tuxedo cat, Panda.
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Assayag and her husband, who live in Alberta, Canada, adopted Panda two years ago.
"Panda connected with me instantly," Assayag told BuzzFeed News. "She slept with me, purred on me."
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HENGELO - De gemeente Hengelo roept bewoners op om zich via haar website te melden als ze wateroverlast in hun woning hebben. Het aantal klachten is de laatste tijd fors gestegen, zegt de gemeente.
Savchenko, 34, is facing charges of complicity in the killing of two Russian reporters during armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in June 2014. Prosecutor demands 23-year prison term for her.
War can be hilarious. Not that the actual violence is funny — there is nothing amusing about the thousands of civilians and troops who have died and hundreds of thousands who have been displaced during America’s 15-year nightmare in Afghanistan. But within the larger tragedy of armed conflict is a rich vein of dark, absurdist humor grounded in the day-to-day insanity of life in a war zone.
Unless Congress and the White House can agree on a funding fix for Medicaid in the U.S. territory, many worry that Puerto Rico's health care system could collapse when stopgap funding ends next year.
EquiTable
After a large pizza with friends, the bill comes. Everyone throws in a few bucks to equally split it.
But is that really equal, considering the average woman makes 78% of a man's earnings? If you're a woman of color, the wage gap is even wider: Black women make 64%, and Hispanic women make just 54%.
A new half-joking app, called EquiTable, divides restaurant bills with gender and racial income inequality in mind.
"If I'm working the same job and making less... Читать дальше...
The two new products, Amazon Tap and Echo Dot, both feature Amazon's voice-controlled assistant Alexa.
Spain's Princess Cristina on Thursday took the stand in a landmark corruption case centred on her husband's business dealings.
"The big thing now is that hopefully there’s no setbacks."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich warned the personal attacks on Donald Trump aren’t working and urged fellow Republican presidential candidates to stick to policy.
REVIEW: Coherently crafted and surprisingly meaningful, “Zootopia” never feels like a random collage of jokes and incidents.
If governments and businesses double the pace at which women become digitally fluent, gender equality could be achieved in 25 years in developed nations and in 45 years in developing nations, says a report.
Het leven van een omgevallen schaap redden? Dat gaat ondanks de beste bedoelingen wel eens mis. Inspecteur Erik Goemans van de Dierenbescherming in de Haagse regio zette een filmpje op YouTube om te laten zien hoe je een schaap veilig op vier poten krijgt. Juist nu de beesten nog een dikke vacht hebben of zwanger zijn.
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LOS ANGELES, March 3 (UPI) -- Jessica Biel says she enjoys "old-fashioned" dates with husband Justin Timberlake.
The other lambs sadly couldn't handle how unusual the seven-legged lamb looked.
Students and staff of Modern School, Vasant Vihar, were evacuated on Thursday after a caller claimed that a bomb had been planted on its premises.