Hundreds of supporters of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr storm into Baghdad's Green Zone and set up tents beside parliament after Sadr denounces the failure of politicians to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption. Mana Rabiee reports.
A court has ordered X to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney
Yoda going to like this one – but can everyone play?
Former president’s historic ‘hush money’ election interference trial is underway in New York
Walt Nauta was allegedly told he'd be pardoned if Trump was elected again in November.
Dublin, April 23, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Weight Loss Drugs Market: Analysis By Product Type, By Drug Type, By Distribution Channel, By End User, By Region, Size and Trends with Impact of COVID-19 and Forecast up to 2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global weight loss drugs market was valued at US$3.83 billion in 2023, and is expected to be worth US$44.12 billion in 2029. The global weight loss drugs market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 49.85%
Global shares rose on Tuesday, driven by a recovery on Wall Street, where investor focus is pinned on earnings reports from the U.S. megacaps, while the yen hit a new 34-year low against the dollar, prompting a warning from Japanese officials. The MSCI All-World index, which on Friday hit a two-month low, was up 0.2%, lifted by gains in Europe, where the FTSE 100 hit a record high, while the STOXX 600 traded at one-week highs thanks to the technology sector. Adding to the optimism was a series of surveys of business activity that showed Germany returned to growth in early April after months of contraction, while activity in the broader euro zone expanded at its fastest clip in nearly a year.
Anellotech Copyright Anellotech Combination of advanced recycling and purification technologies enable more efficient processing and reuse of hard-to-recycle plastic. Technip Energies (PARIS:TE) and Anellotech, Inc. (Anellotech) today announced they have signed a global joint development agreement to work cooperatively to further develop and then license Anellotech’s Plas-TCat™ process, a one-step thermal-catalytic recycling technology that converts mixed plastic wastes back into its constituent
China-based international sales agent Rediance has acquired world sales rights to “The Falling Sky,” a feature documentary which will premiere next month at Cannes in the Directors Fortnight section. Directed by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha, the film makes the Amazonian Yanomami people its stars. Based on the book of the same title …
Train drivers will stage walks-out between 7 and 9 May while overtime bans will disrupt services.
VC firm Molten Ventures saw its shares surge today as it reported its results
The PM is keen to get planes to Rwanda off the ground, but is yet to show the same enthusiasm to get alleged rape cases through the courts.
As grassroots venues continue to fight for survival amid the cost of living crisis, rising energy costs and a shrinking tour circuit, The Independent launches a 12-month initiative to spotlight one local venue each month
A four-year-old girl was said to be in a critical condition
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar nominee Vanessa Kirby, BAFTA nominee David Oyelowo and BAFTA winner Sofie Gråbøl lead cast in Audible’s The Strange Case, the first audio drama from the creator of the John Wick franchise, Derek Kolstad. Releasing in July, the modern-day reimagining of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story will see Dr. Jekyll (Vanessa Kirby) as an …
Pavel Durov, billionaire founder and CEO of Telegram, said Apple's move last week to remove the chat app from its China app store had not caused any decrease in downloads from China and criticised Apple instead for its "walled garden" app policies. Durov published a post in his public channel on Telegram on Monday in which he confirmed that Apple removed multiple apps including Telegram from its App Store in China last week.
Cooper Investors, an investment management firm, released its “Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund” first quarter 2024 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. The fund returned 7.4% in the first quarter, compared to a 9.4% return for the benchmark MSCI ACWI. The market rally, which started in late October 2023, has […]
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Samantha Mickleburgh, 55, from Axminister, was found dead at the £600 a night Pennyhill Park Hotel in Bagshot
Adobe said on Tuesday it plans to place a tool for full artificial intelligence image generation in its Photoshop software later this year. Adobe's image and video editing tools are widely used by creative professionals, but it faces rising competition from startups such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI, Midjourney and Stability AI, all of which offer services that can generate images from text prompts. Adobe is developing its own image-generation AI system called Firefly, which is trained on data that Adobe has rights to, in order to avoid copyright infringement claims against users.
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