U.S. holiday sales could rise over 10% this year, a trade body said on Wednesday, as major consumer goods makers and retailers work to prevent supply chain disruptions from leaving shelves empty of in-demand toys and games.The National Retail Federatio…
U.S. federal law enforcement agencies and Europol announced dozens of arrests to break up a global operation that sold illegal drugs using a shadowy realm of the internet.At a Department of Justice news conference Tuesday in Washington, officials said …
Wildlife officials and environmental groups in Florida are raising an alarm over the unprecedented die-off this year of manatees, the large, slow-moving sea animals that are the southeastern U.S. state’s official marine mammal.The latest figures from t…
Early this week, Oct 20, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated Kushinagar International Airport (KIA) which he termed as a tribute to the devotion of Buddhist society around the world.Addressing the gathering, he said that India is the centre…
For the first time in a laboratory, Australian scientists have produced tadpoles more tolerant of climate change. A team from the University of Western Australia has cross-bred frogs from wetter regions with other species from drier areas to make them
Car rental company Hertz says it will buy 100,000 electric cars from Tesla.Hertz interim CEO Mark Fields said the Model 3 cars could be ready for renters as early as November, The Associated Press reported.Fields said the reason for the
A Financial Times report says COVAX, the global collaboration established to ensure that poor countries have access to the COVID-19 vaccine, has “largely failed.”“Wealthy countries have received over 16 times more COVID-19 vaccines per person than poor…
Very few companies can boast of having their name also used as a verb. Zoom is one of them. The popularity of the videoconferencing platform continues to grow around the world despite continued questions about whether Chinese authorities are monitoring…
