Jeremy Corbyn chooses a white dove for his Christmas card
It's very different to the prime minister's designs.
It's very different to the prime minister's designs.
The Geminids meteor shower hits its peak on Tuesday, but a full moon will outshine the celestial show this year.
Beloved TV and movie star Dick Van Dyke turns 91 on December 13.
Just 24 hours before, she posted a message about the event: 'So excited - roll on tomorrow.'
Gold futures retreat Monday, adding to the metal’s five-week retreat as investors brace for a U.S. interest-rate rise that is expected later this week.
The Sunday terrorist attack on St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo left more than 20 people dead.
Prudential Financial Inc. said Monday that it will suspend the distribution of its MyTerm insurance product through all Wells Fargo & Co. branches and website while it reviews the bank's sale practices. The MyTerm product was launched in 2007, and is designed to give customers more choices and access to life insurance. The company had entered into a distribution agreement with Wells Fargo in June 2014. The suspension of the agreement follows Wells Fargo's sales practice scandal earlier this year. Читать дальше...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The Latest on nominations for the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards announced Monday in Beverly Hills, California (all times local):
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These invisible decisions group us digitally — and in real life.
In October, ProPublica journalists went to Facebook and bought a housing-related ad.
They wanted to expose how Facebook allowed advertisers to discriminate based on race. So they used Facebook’s advertising tools to exclude certain users from seeing the ad: African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanics.
This was clearly a violation of the Fair Housing Act, which says real estate ads can't show a preference for people based on race... Читать дальше...
It was a big mistake to focus only on U.S. stocks in the late 1990s, and it’s a mistake again now, writes Brett Arends.
It was a big mistake to focus only on U.S. stocks in the late 1990s, and it’s a mistake again now, writes Brett Arends.
Daniel J. Graeber
BISMARCK, N.D., Dec. 12 (UPI) -- If state records are accurate when measured against industry data, the rig count in North Dakota gained significant ground after a weekend OPEC agreement.
Millions of customers who have basic bank accounts may be paying higher fees than necessary.
The Titans held wide receiver Kendall Wright out of the lineup for Sunday’s game against the Broncos in a disciplinary move that resulted from Wright being late and missing a team meeting on Saturday. The team announced the reason for Wright’s absence from the lineup shortly after declaring him inactive. Wright said that he apologized…
(AP) -- Egypt's Coptic community held a funeral service on Monday for 25 Christians killed in a bombing the previous day at a church next to the main cathedral in Cairo - one of the deadliest attacks targeting the country's…
The emails, which could infect your computer, often spike during the holidays.
An inquiry into the future of EU citizens living in the UK has concluded that they should be offered the right to settle in Britain permanently.
AP Photo/Matt Rourke
President-elect Donald Trump recently spoke on the telephone with the president of Taiwan, causing deep upset. It was counter to an understanding in place since Richard Nixon opened the door with China in 1972.
This understanding included an American endorsement of the one-China policy. This policy held that Taiwan was part of China but would continue to behave as if it weren't. The US agreed not to have diplomatic relations with Taiwan and pretend it wasn't a close ally. Читать дальше...
Monday's collection of links.
Andrew V. Pestano
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- President-elect Donald Trump said though he is "open-minded," climate change is up for debate because "nobody really knows" if it is real.
Dispute hit operator is unlikely to run any trains on December 13, 14 and 16
The National Weather Service has issued warnings for parts of the Great Lakes and the Northeast. Image: AP
Turkey's police rounded up more than 100 members of a Kurdish political party on Monday as the country mourned the dozens killed in a bombing attack near an Istanbul stadium.