A worker adjusts hiring signage at a job and resource fair hosted by the Mountain Area Workforce Development Board in partnership with NCWorks in Hendersonville, North Carolina, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. Allison Joyce | Bloomberg | Getty Images Private sector job creation eased more than expected in December while wages grew at the…
Reuters Donald Trump said Greenland was “critical” for the US’s national and economic security (file photo) France has said the European Union will not allow other nations to attack its “sovereign borders”, after US President-Elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to seize Greenland. On Tuesday, Trump reiterated his desire to acquire…
The sister of the OpenAI chief executive, Sam Altman, has filed a lawsuit alleging that he regularly sexually abused her for several years, starting when they were children. The lawsuit filed on 6 January in a US district court in the Eastern District of Missouri alleges that the abuse began when Ann Altman was three…
Life has come at Kody Brown pretty fast over the last few years. The former polygamous has been forced to accept a new reality: That he’s no longer a polygamist. Starting in November 2021, Christine Brown, Janelle Brown and Meri Brown have all decided to leave their unhealthy relationships to Kody. And now? In response…
Getty Images The affluent Los Angeles neighbourhood of Pacific Palisades typically has strangers walking around, trying to catch a glimpse of celebrities’ houses. Now, though, its streets are filled with firefighters battling a 3,000-acre wildfire that is ravaging the area. Across the city, more than 30,000 have been forced to evacuate their homes as winds…
Europa’s orbit is an ellipse, and the satellite’s shape is affected by Jupiter’s gravity, becoming deformed when it passes closer to Jupiter. This change in shape creates friction inside Europa, generating enormous amounts of heat in a mechanism known as tidal heating, which melts some of the ice and forms a vast internal ocean beneath…
CNBC’s Jim Cramer extolled Nvidia‘s stock and reviewed its Tuesday action, saying the decline was unrelated to the company and its prospects. He suggested this could be a good time to buy shares and applauded CEO Jensen Huang’s remarks at CES. “Understand one thing, the keynote dazzled, the new projects are way ahead of any…
Giving a colleague an “air kiss” does not amount to sexual harassment, a UK employment judge has ruled. Judge Perry said the gesture, a trope in the 1990s British comedy Absolutely Fabulous, could not be regarded as “unwanted conduct of a sexual nature”. The ruling came at the end of the case of a hospitality…
The image of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau receiving a vaccine against the coronavirus, like those of other world leaders, was meant to convey a reassuring public health message. It also put prim and buttoned-up politicians in the rare, if sometimes awkward, position of showing more skin. When Mr. Trudeau rolled up his sleeve, it exposed…
The US has accused the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide and imposed sanctions on its leader. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, was being punished for his role in “systematic” atrocities against the Sudanese people during the 20-month conflict. He said…
