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Stocks diverge at start of key week for rate calls
AFP, Published on 11/12/2023
» LONDON - Stock markets diverged on Monday ahead of a busy week for interest rate decisions from major central banks.
Good neighbours: Bonobo study offers clues into early human alliances
AFP, Published on 17/11/2023
» WASHINGTON - Human society is founded on our ability to cooperate with others beyond our immediate family and social groups.
Grandma chimps offer clues for evolution of menopause in humans
AFP, Published on 27/10/2023
» WASHINGTON - Humans and some whales are the only known species in which females live long after they stop being able to reproduce.
Phallus and the boar: Turkey digs yield clues to human history
AFP, Published on 15/10/2023
» KARAHANTEPE, Turkey: The dry expanses of southeastern Turkey, home to some of humanity's most ancient sites, have yielded fresh discoveries in the form of a stone phallus and a coloured boar.
NASA set to journey to a metal-rich asteroid
AFP, Published on 13/10/2023
» KENNEDY SPACE CENTER (UNITED STATES) - It's a world like no other: a metal-rich asteroid that could be the remnants of a small planet, or perhaps an entirely new type of celestial body unknown to science.
Global stocks edge higher but oil sinks
AFP, Published on 05/10/2023
» LONDON - Asian and European stocks rose on Thursday after modest Wall Street gains as investors kept a wary eye on US bond yields, while oil sank further on stubborn demand fears.
Asian markets rose as US inflation soothes rate fears for now
AFP, Published on 14/09/2023
» HONG KONG - A mixed inflation report in the United States boosted Asian markets Thursday as it soothed fears of a possible Federal Reserve interest rate hike next week, though the still hot reading left open the possibility of one more before year's end.
50 years later, Chilean mothers pine for 'disappeared' sons
AFP, Published on 01/09/2023
» SAN ANTONIO (CHILE) - Luz Encina, 94, sets out from San Antonio in Chile in a small, rented boat clutching a fistful of red flowers to cast into the Pacific Ocean, which she believes to be the final resting place of her son.
UBS to absorb Credit Suisse domestic unit
AFP, Published on 31/08/2023
» ZURICH - The banking giant UBS said Thursday it would fully absorb the Swiss unit of its recently swallowed rival Credit Suisse into its operations, without spelling out the implications for job cuts.
Proof humans reshaped the world? Chickens
AFP, Published on 10/07/2023
» PARIS: When aliens or our distant progeny sift through layers of sediment 500,000 years from now to decode the Earth's past, they will find unusual evidence of the abrupt change that upended life half-a-million years earlier - chicken bones.