Mixed stock market reaction to president’s comments, while IMF chief warns of inflation and slower growth Business live – latest updates Oil traded at more than $110 a barrel on Tuesday after Donald Trump said all of Iran could be “taken out” in one night . Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, rose by 1% to $111 a barrel. New York light crude rose 2.6% to $115.3 a barrel. Continue reading...
Planning application expected shortly as London City airport and bank reach agreement for 265m-high building Business live – latest updates JP Morgan Chase has reached agreement with London City airport to build one of Europe’s tallest office towers in the east of the capital. The £3bn tower is poised to be the tallest in the Canary Wharf financial district, after JP Morgan, one of Wall Street’s biggest banks, secured approval from the airport. Continue reading...
Roberts-Smith is only the second Australian veteran of the Afghanistan campaign to be charged with a war crime. (Image credit: Anthony Devlin/AP)
Bread and biscuits made from Crispr-edited wheat showed substantially reduced acrylamide levels, even after toasting Gene-edited wheat which can make bread less carcinogenic when toasted has been successfully developed by scientists. Researchers at Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, used Crispr genome editing which allows researchers to selectively edit the DNA of living organisms. This revolutionary technology was adapted for use in the laboratory from naturally occurring genome e
Trump vows to target Iran's civilian infrastructure
NBC News · Oct 8
Michigan's coach outlines key to winning March Madness
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Rapper who has previously made antisemitic remarks responds to criticism over his booking at London festival The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has broken his silence and offered to “meet and listen” to members of the UK’s Jewish community after a fierce backlash over his booking at London’s Wireless festival. West, who is legally known as Ye, has been criticised for making antisemitic remarks including voicing admiration for Adolf Hitler. Last year he released a song called Heil Hitler, a
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Petrol prices have stopped falling, despite the federal government’s cut to the fuel excise last week Track Australia’s fuel prices, service station outages and shipments in charts Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese will fly to Singapore this week – Australia’s biggest source of petrol – as the government mounts an international bid to keep fuel prices from rising. Diesel is getting more expensive a
Guardian - World · Oct 8
Scale AI gig workers describe desperation of using people’s personal profiles and copyrighted work to train AI Tens of thousands of people have been paid by a company part-owned by Meta to train AI by combing Instagram accounts, harvesting copyrighted work and transcribing pornographic soundtracks, the Guardian can reveal. Scale AI, 49%-controlled by Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire, has recruited experts across fields such as medicine, physics and economics – putatively to refine top-level
