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Every Earth Day, the world celebrates efforts to improve the environment across the globe. And each year, Yale's Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks the top-performing countries for the environment, based on how well they've fared at protecting human health and vulnerable ecosystems.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the top five countries this year were all European.

The EPI creates index by giving each country a score out of 100 that's based on a number of specific metrics. Читать дальше...

Health care-focused, private-equity investors in China are facing competition and forging partnerships as Chinese technology companies seek to leverage their dominance on all things digital in the provision of care. But consultant Bain & Co. said private-equity investors looking for opportunities in the emerging market's health-care sector aren't squeezed out.

Leonardo DiCaprio speaks during the Paris Agreement for Climate Change Signing at the United Nations on Friday morning (April 22) in New York City. The 41-year-old actor gave a speech on Earth Day to urge the world to do something about climate change. “Our planet cannot be saved unless we leave fossil fuels in the [...]

The steady weakening of the U.S. dollar against other major world currencies could push inflation up faster than investors have expected, providing the Federal Reserve additional justification to raise interest rates in the months ahead. That’s the conclusion of analysts at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, who examined the impact of currency prices on domestic inflation. If correct, the analysis would vindicate Fed Chair Janet Yellen, whose repeated assertion that the forces holding back inflation... Читать дальше...

Right off the assembly line, the 2016 Audi R8 V10 Plus offers 610-horsepower, and 583 lb-ft of torque. Combine that power with the 3,364 lb curb weight and you get a car capable of 0-100 sprints of 6.1 seconds, or roughly about the same amount of time that it took you to read these first […]

A Volkswagen dealership in Alexandria, Va. The automaker is still negotiating the size of the fines it will pay to the United States government.

Despite dangerous radiation levels, Novozybkov residents stay put

Because if you make the world's best grilled cheese, you should have the perfect ale to go along with it.

There’s something counterintuitive about Craig Campbell’s “Outskirts of Heaven.” It’s a ballad that contemplates the...

The family of an employee gunned down Monday night during a holdup at a Lee’s Discount Liquor store said the man gave up his life to protect a co-worker and is urging the robbers to give themselves up. “Turn yourselves in,” said Reggie Christensen, brother of ...

John Mellencamp will play the Lied Center for Performing Arts on Nov. 1

How security number one driver of smart home adoption

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Smart home products are becoming more common, and there's one major reason the average consumer is picking up these devices.

A new survey from smart home providers August Home and Xfinity Home discovered that 63% of consumers cited home security as the biggest motivation to purchase a smart home device. Читать дальше...

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More than one million people are now connecting to Facebook through the Tor "dark web," which maintains their privacy and leaves no digital trail.

In a Facebook note, software engineer Alec Muffett said the number of Facebook over Tor users over an average 30-day period has about doubled in less than a year, now hitting 1 million.

"This growth is a reflection of the choices that people make to use Facebook over Tor, and the value that it provides them," Muffett wrote. Читать дальше...

An appellate court upheld a rule requiring lawyers practicing in New York State who aren’t residents there to keep a physical office in the state.

Moscow is ready to cooperate with its international partners to address the global climate change, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin said Friday.

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HELSINKI, Finland, April 22 (UPI) -- Finland issues Request for Information notice for multipurpose fighter aircraft.

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ST. ALBANS, England, April 22 (UPI) -- A British pub is being applauded online for offering women an unconventional service -- escape from a bad Tinder date.

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Nepal government on Friday made a fresh appeal to Madhesis to seek peaceful solution to the political crisis through talks even as the agitating parties announced nationwide protests beginning next week in their new bid to continue their struggle against the Constitution.

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The real estate market in New York City is unlike the rest of the markets in the US.

Douglas Elliman's Margolis team, a partnership between Howard Margolis, Marie Espinal, and Jeff Adler, tells Business Insider "the rental market here is brutal compared to the other cities, because in any city in the world you can walk down the street, point to a building and say, 'I want to live in that building.' In New York, it doesn’t work that way."

According to the March 2016 Elliman Report... Читать дальше...

– Senator Dino Melaye has vowed to stand by Senator Bukola Saraki all through his travails – Melaye says the Senate President must remain in office for four years regardless his legal trials The Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye has vowed to die for Senate President, Bukola Saraki. Sahara Reporters reports that […]

Microsoft and Google are formally withdrawing all regulatory complaints against each other, the company confirmed to Business Insider, after Re/Code's Ina Fried first reported on the mutual change of heart.

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