Kevin Jackson BBC Scotland News Reporting fromBergen, Norway The Scalloway Museum Some of the ‘Shetland Gang’ crew pictured at the pier in Scalloway in 1944 It sounds like it could be the plot of a spy novel, but the ‘Shetland Bus’ was a real undercover operation carried out to help the resistance in Nazi-occupied Norway…
A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during afternoon trading on April 9, 2025 in New York. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty Images A massive number of hedge fund short sellers rushed to close out their positions during Wednesday afternoon’s sudden surge in stocks, turning a stunning rally into…
The State Department plans to reconstitute U.S.A.I.D. as the U.S. Agency for International Humanitarian Assistance and abolish its status as an independent agency, according to an internal planning memo reviewed by The Times. Because of the way U.S.A.I.D. was established, Congress would have approve changes the Trump administration makes to the agency. If the planned…
Zyn has taken the U.S. by storm. The nicotine pouch brand’s boom came at an opportune time for parent company Philip Morris International, which faced a yearslong decline in cigarette smoking. Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration authorized 20 Zyn products to be marketed and sold in the U.S. The FDA had allowed…
An Indian-origin Biomedical Engineering graduate from the University at Buffalo has finally cracked the formula “300+ applications, 500+ cold emails, 10 interviews, 1 offer” later as he landed his dream job at the Elon Musk-led multinational automotive company Tesla. According to Dhruv Loya’s Instagram bio, he is a 22-year-old man from Pune who is now…
A passerby recalled the horrific Tesla car crash that killed four Indians in Canada and said that the victims were trying to break the window glass and come out of the burning vehicle. “I did everything I could,” he told a Canadian media house. File photo of a Tesla vehicle involved in a crash. (REUTERS)…
