For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck. But when tainted food sickened over 250 of the workers their anger boiled over, culminating in a rare protest that shut down a plant
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of procuring underage girls to be sexually abused by the late money manager Jeffrey Epstein. Maxwell, who turned 60 years old on Christmas Day, faced six criminal counts at her trial. Jurors deliberated for five days before finding her guilty of five of the six counts, including conspiracy to entice
If you’re wondering how residents in SoCal are handling the cold and rainy weather of this holiday season, look no further than Kourtney Kardashian and her fiancé Travis Barker, who hit the beach for a stroll bundled up in a ton of layers. The pair hit the sand at the Rosewood Hotel in Montecito Wednesday,
U.S. Treasury yields edged higher Thursday as investors continue to monitor developments on the omicron Covid-19 variant. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.5479% by 1:30 a.m. ET, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond edged up to 1.9596%. Yields move inversely to prices and 1 basis point is equal to 0.01%.
2021 brought us a lot of TV, including many new entries for Science Fiction and Fantasy lovers. There was plenty of new high-profile Fantasy/Sci-Fi series this year (Wheel of Time, Foundation) that were a pleasure to watch. On the other side of things, some returning series (Rick and Morty, The Walking Dead) continued their reign
A Thai investor checks an electronic board showing stock prices. Amphol Thongmueangluang | SOPA Images| LightRocket | Getty Images Some 2021 Asia-Pacific IPOs have seen a sharp reversal in their fortunes since their strong market debuts. At the top of the list is Chinese short video company and Tiktok-rival Kuaishou, which more than doubled from
Events Amanda Orso, The ‘party stylist whose events have drawn A list guests from P. Diddy, Caitlyn Jenner, D’Andra Simmons, to Captain Lee, creates unique table settings for her clients using everything from candles to kale! This year she’s created 4 looks for you to entertain at home on New Year’s Eve. To create a fun “Instagram-able” table
FG Trade | E+ | Getty Images Vanguard investors have been grappling with partial website outages over the past several days that have blocked some customers from trade confirmations, certain statements and forms. These interruptions may cause problems for those making year-end transactions, such as required minimum distributions, as there’s a 50% penalty for missing the
Spider-Man: No Way Home on Tuesday officially became Sony Pictures’ highest-grossing film of all time at the worldwide box office with $1.16B. This surpasses the global total of its predecessor, 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From Home, which finaled at $1.13B. The split on the Tom Holland/Zendaya/Benedict Cumberbatch-starrer through Tuesday is $516.4M domestic and $644.9M at the
TAMPA, Fla. — The first ViaSat-3 broadband satellite is on track to launch in the first half of 2022 despite ongoing pandemic-related challenges, according to Viasat’s recently appointed chief operating officer Kevin Harkenrider. The high-throughput satellite’s Viasat-built payload has been integrated with a chassis provided by Boeing for tests that will continue into early next
Oppo A16K is set to launch in the coming weeks, according to details shared by a tipster. The smartphone is yet to be officially announced in the country by Oppo, but the latest leak suggests that the upcoming Oppo smartphone will be launched in the first or second week of January. Oppo A16K is tipped
Counselor to the President Steve Ricchetti (C) gestures after playing a round of golf with US President Joe Biden at Wilmington Country Club in Wilmington, Delaware on April 17, 2021. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images The brother of one of President Joe Biden‘s closest advisors plans to work on behalf of a client
News Katy Perry and Alesso Share New Song “When I’m Gone”: Listen A new single to mark the start of Perry’s Las Vegas residency By Matthew Strauss December 29, 2021 Facebook Twitter Alesso and Katy Perry, photo by Rony Alwin Facebook Twitter Swedish DJ and producer Alesso has enlisted Katy Perry for the new song
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., April 13, 2021. Leigh Vogel | UPI | Bloomberg | Getty Images Early studies suggest the omicron variant, while highly transmissible, causes less
Spoilers below for season 1 of Squid Game. Following in the footsteps of The Hunger Games, Netflix’s newest K-drama hit Squid Game is, at face value, a spin on the Japanese classic Battle Royale. A group of strangers are placed in an enclosure, where they’re forced to kill one another if they hope to claim
As we approach 2022, NBC’s renewal and cancellation decisions are looking clearer than ever. The network had already given a bunch of its shows early renewals, and there aren’t very many on the bubble. La Brea was a surprise hit, landing a quick renewal, but the same cannot be said for Ordinary Joe. Telling a
To Be Young and in Love and Stranded in the Snow Stuart Dybek Share article Cordoba by Stuart Dybek While we were kissing, the thick, leather-bound OBRAS COMPLETAS, opened to a black and white photo of Federico Garcia Lorca—in profile, a mole prominent beside a sideburn of his slicked-back hair—slid from her lap to the
Taken from the December 2021 issue of Physics World where it first appeared under the headline “The shape of things”. Members of the Institute of Physics can enjoy the full issue via the Physics World app. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Olga Korneeva) Geometry – Greek for “measuring the world” – is one of the oldest branches of mathematics