A “precious” discovery on the NSW Mid North Coast has signalled the first known instance of turtle nesting in the state this season. But the partially buried eggs were located precariously close to shore, with king tides forecast. Long tracks left behind in the sand by “an incredibly rare” loggerhead turtle led NSW National Park … Read more
Igor Golovniov | LightRocket | Getty Images Enphase Energy will lay off 10% of its global workforce as part of a restructuring plan, the solar company disclosed in a regulatory filing on Monday. Enphase manufacturers microinverters that convert solar energy into usable electricity. The company’s stock is down 53% this year as high interest rates … Read more
U.S. stocks have been trending higher since the Investing Club’s November Monthly Meeting as markets celebrate signs of cooling inflation and a seemingly less hawkish Federal Reserve . Watch our December Monthly Meeting at live noon ET and later on video. The S & P 500 has jumped 5.2% since the market close on the … Read more
Henry Bryant is only a few days old, but he has already entered the history books. The 2.9kg infant was the first baby born in Australia from a transplanted uterus, arriving into the world via caesarean (C-section) at Sydney’s Royal Hospital for Women on December 15. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Mother becomes first woman in … Read more
Ascentxmedia | Istock | Getty Images Retiring early is a dream for many, but can often appear impossible unless you’ve made millions throughout your career. “Twenty years ago rates of early retirement were fairly similar across different wealth levels,” Heidi Karjalainen, a research economist for retirement, saving and aging at the Institute for Fiscal Studies … Read more
Srdjanpav | E+ | Getty Images When it comes to the holidays, there’s one thing most workers don’t want to receive: a pink slip. But that’s exactly what some employees are getting this year. Citigroup is in the midst of layoffs as part of a corporate overhaul. Other companies to recently shed workers include e-commerce … Read more
A Sydney family-of-five has lost everything in a house fire just days before Christmas. The blaze tore through the two-storey home on Duterreau Wy, Claymore, in Sydney’s southwest, where the mother lived with her four children and their eight German shepherd puppies. The mother, her partner and her four children aged seven, eight, 18 and … Read more
Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the central bank’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. Kiyoshi Ota | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s central bank left its ultra-loose monetary policy unchanged at its final meeting this year, a move that … Read more
An attendee wears a Meta Platforms Inc. Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality (VR) headset at the Telefonica SA stand on day two of the Mobile World Congress at the Fira de Barcelona venue in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Angel Garcia | Bloomberg | Getty Images Meta is spending billions of dollars a … Read more
A man who stabbed his wife to death in a “ferocious“ murder on Easter Sunday will spend at least 14 years and seven months in prison. Altaf Hossain, 54, attacked his wife Syeda Nirupama inside the garage of their Minto home, southwest of Sydney, on April 21, 2019. The 34-year-old was stabbed more than 80 … Read more
