Gold broke through $5,200 for the first time on Wednesday as the dollar plunged to a near four-year low, Reuters writes. Spot gold climbed 1.8% to $5,279.94 per ounce. It has gained more than 20% sin...
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Nike is cutting 775 employees as the company looks to boost its bottom line and accelerate its use of “automation,” CNBC writes. The layoffs, which are in addition to the 1,000 corporate job cuts the ...
The European Union and India have announced a landmark trade deal after nearly two decades of on-off talks, the BBC writes. “We did it, we delivered the mother of all deals,” European Commission Presi...
Singer Katy Perry and other US celebrities have called for citizens to contact lawmakers and speak out against federal immigration officials’ killing of two US citizens during the Trump administration...
OpenAI, the developer of the ChatGPT chatbot, says its product can increase the productivity of scientists around the world. According to a report provided to Axios, the company said the average weekl...
A Chinese company has launched the world’s first automated production line for robot joints, South China Morning Post writes. The plant, based in Pudong, Shanghai, opened last Wednesday with an annual...
Gold surged to a record high above $5,000 an ounce on Monday, Reuters writes. Spot gold climbed 1.5% to $5,058.09 per ounce, after touching an all-time high of $5,092.71 earlier. The metal soared 64% ...
A dangerous winter storm has swept across the US, leaving at least seven people dead and cutting power to hundreds of thousands of homes, the BBC writes. According to the US National Weather Service (...
In 2025, Azerbaijan exported goods worth $788,800 to Armenia, according to a statement from Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee. No exports from Armenia to Azerbaijan were recorded in 2025. On Dec. 1...
Researchers say a stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world’s oldest known cave painting, the BBC writes. The painting has been dated to at least 67,800 year...
Ten ethnic Armenians living in Artsakh and one Armenian citizen of Russian ethnicity have moved to Armenia, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Arsen Torosyan has said. “Dear compatriots, I would lik...
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), reportedly leaving an unpaid bill of approximately $260 million, Bloomberg writes. The publication states that the ...