Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionUS President Donald Trump: 'We're no longer the suckers, folks' Donald Trump's unannounced Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq succeeded as a morale-boosting exercise, judging from the standing ovation the president got. Equally, and perhaps predictably, the trip had its controversial moments - and his legendary…
Enlarge / Smokestacks at Pacificorp’s 1,000MW coal-fired power plant on October 9, 2017 outside Huntington, Utah. According to a report from Bloomberg, the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not considering a roll back of Obama-era rules regulating industrial emissions of mercury. When the rules were codified in 2015, they required coal plants to add…
LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks bounced off a near two-year low on Thursday, lifted by a dramatic Wall Street surge, though a fall in Chinese industrial profits and renewed Italian banking worries offered a sobering reminder of the problems weighing on the world economy. The Dow Jones Industrial Average surged more than 1,000 points for…
Image copyright AFP Image caption Mr Trump and his wife met military personnel at the al-Asad airbase, west of Baghdad US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have made an unannounced Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq.They travelled there "late on Christmas night" to thank troops for "their service, their success and…
Enlarge / Adelaide (Lupita Nyong’o) tells her kids (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex) to get their shoes on and be ready to run in Us. YouTube/UniversalThis Christmas Day, we get our first look at the trailer for Us, Jordan Peele's much-anticipated follow-up to his 2017 film Get Out. And it looks viscerally terrifying in…
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will resume commercial whaling from July in its waters and exclusive economic zone while ending its controversial hunts in the Antarctic, it said on Wednesday, as it announced its withdrawal from the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Australia and New Zealand welcomed the decision to abandon the Antarctic whale hunt, but expressed…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe Pope gave his fifth Christmas message from the Vatican's Saint Peter's Bascilica balcony The Pope has used his annual Christmas message to appeal for peace in conflict zones including Yemen and Syria.The two countries have both been ravaged by civil war for years, pushing their people…
Enlarge / Ready to save the day, one side quest at a time. Insomniac / Sony Update: It's Christmas Eve and Ars staffers are enjoying a winter break (inevitably filled with Santa horror movies and ample video game time). As such, we're resurfacing a few favorites from the site archives touching on such topics—like this…
CIZHONG, China (Reuters) - Ruanna, a 77-year-old Tibetan woman living in a remote Chinese village overlooking the Mekong river, says her Catholic faith has never been in doubt. A Tibetan Catholic carries a cross as he walks with the funeral cortege on Christmas Eve in Niuren village, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China December…
Image copyright Reuters Image caption The president reportedly wanted to fire Fed chairman Jerome Powell, but it is unclear whether he has the authority to do so President Donald Trump has lashed out at America's central bank as a stock market whose gains he once took credit for continued a historic plunge. In a tweet,…
