Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after attending a wake for New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer Jonathan Diller, who was shot and killed while making a routine traffic stop on March 25 in the Far Rockaway section of Queens, in Massapequa Park, New York, U.S., March 28, 2024. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters PolA … Read more
Taiwan’s biggest earthquake in at least 25 years has killed nine people and injured more than 900 while 50 workers travelling in minibuses to a hotel in a national park are missing. Some buildings are tilted at precarious angles in the mountainous, sparsely populated county of Hualien, near the epicentre of the 7.2 magnitude quake, … Read more
Australians have been caught up in a deadly earthquake that has toppled buildings and triggered landslides in Taiwan. The 7.4 magnitude tremor struck off the east coast of the island nation on Wednesday morning, killing at least seven people and injuring at least 50. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Australians caught up in Taiwan earthquake terror. … Read more
People sitting by a pier during sunset in Singapore. Roslan Rahman | Afp | Getty Images Singapore’s economic losses due to heat stress could nearly double to $1.64 billion in 2035 from pre-pandemic 2018 due to a decline in labor productivity, a recent study by the National University of Singapore showed. Back in 2018, heat … Read more
An aerial view shows workers taking down a collapsed building in eastern Taiwan’s Hualien county following an earthquake/ Sam Yeh | Afp | Getty Images Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co said all its workers were safe and those who were evacuated have started returning to some factory lines after a major earthquake hit Taiwan early Wednesday. The island was … Read more
Ariel Emanuel, Chief Executive Officer, Endeavor, at the New York Stock Exchange, April 29, 2021. Source: NYSE Private equity firm Silver Lake announced Tuesday that it’s acquiring entertainment company Endeavor Group Holdings for $27.50 a share. Endeavor’s stock was halted ahead of the announcement. Silver Lake will acquire 100% of the shares it does not … Read more
The worst is yet to come for an already soggy Sydney, as drizzle from a cold front moving across the state on Tuesday develops into a downpour within days. A separate weather pattern brewing off the east coast is expected to lash the coastal regions of NSW as it moves from the state’s northeast to … Read more
Modern Shanghai city landscape juxtaposed against China’s national flag Yaorusheng | Moment | Getty Images China’s factory activity in March expanded by its strongest pace in more than a year, a private survey showed on Monday, in signs of stabilizing growth in the world’s second-largest economy. The Caixin China manufacturing purchasing managers’ index was 51.1 in … Read more
Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board chairman Martin Garcia, right, delivers remarks as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens during a news conference at CFTOD headquarters at Walt Disney World on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024, in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Joe Burbank | Orlando Sentinel | Getty Images Disney and the state of Florida agreed Wednesday … Read more
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake that hit a remote part of western Papua New Guinea killed at least three people and caused extensive damage to around 1000 homes, officials say. The quake rocked the East Sepik region about 6.20am local time on Sunday near the town of Ambunti, about 756km northwest of the capital of Port … Read more
