Consumer price increases accelerated last month, the latest sign that inflation's steady decline over the past two years has stalled in recent months. According to the Federal Reserve's preferred ...

Hashim Djojohadikusumo is leading the Indonesian delegation at the climate change conference COP29 in Azerbaijan. But he is ...

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The data snapped a streak of six consecutive months of cooling inflation. Consumer prices rose 2.6% in October compared to a year ago, ticking upward from the previous month and reversing some of ...

Muons are getting a move on. In a step toward new types of particle physics experiments, scientists cooled and then accelerated a beam of muons. The subatomic particles, heavy cousins of electrons ...

Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO, Christian Kroll, would prefer to present more train options, which he ...

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Under terms of the agreement, Dynavax will pay $100 million to Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and will initially receive approximately 6.1 million shares, with an aggregate value representing ...

National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) Chair Atnike Nova Sigiro on human rights enforcement in the Prabowo Subianto ...

Amazon has launched two software updates this week, one for the older Kindle Scribe and another for the 2024 Kindle Basic. The update for the Kindle Scribe is identified by the version number 5.17 ...

The upgrades to the entry-level Kindle are relatively modest, but Amazon's most compact E-Ink e-reader remains an enticing alternative to the more expensive Paperwhite. Executive Editor David ...

Annual salaries for directly employed college staff in Scotland earning the Real Living Wage have jumped by more than £1,000 after a higher pay rate was brought in six months earlier than required.