Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, heads to the dock during its first arrival into PortMiami on Jan. 10, 2024. Pedro Portal | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The world’s largest cruise ship set sail from Miami, Florida over the weekend, embarking on a seven-day island-hopping trip through the … Read more
Signage for Citadel Investment Group LLC hangs outside their office in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Bloomberg | Getty Images The world’s top hedge funds raked in record profits last year amid a resurgence in stock markets, new analysis showed. The 20 leading funds made $67 billion in investor profits in 2023, up from the $65 billion … Read more
CAIRO — Libya’s state-owned oil company resumed production at the country’s largest oilfield Sunday, ending a more than two-week hiatus after protesters blocked the facility over fuel shortages. The National Oil Corp. said in a terse statement that it lifted the force majeure at the Sharara oil field in the country’s south and resumed full … Read more
CAIRO — Production at Libya’s largest oil field was suspended Sunday, the country’s state-run oil company said, after protesters forced the facility to close over fuel shortages. The National Oil Corp. declared force majeure at the Sharara oil field in the country’s south starting Sunday. Force majeure is a legal maneuver that releases a company … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s two largest cities came under attack from Russian hypersonic ballistic missiles on Tuesday morning, killing at least four people and injuring almost 100, officials said, as the war approached its two-year milestone and the Kremlin’s forces stepped up their winter bombardment of urban areas. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on his … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave KYIV — Russia fired more than 100 missiles at Ukraine on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, striking multiple residential buildings, a shopping center and other civilian infrastructure in the biggest barrage so far in a previously quiet winter. The scale of the attack confirmed what many in … Read more
Photo: Chesnot (Getty Images) Over 90,000 users on X experienced an outage on Thursday morning, marking the platform’s most severe outage since Elon Musk’s takeover in October of 2022, according to Bloomberg. Data from Google Trends shows that many users rushed to Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads during the outage. Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl Tweet X … Read more
An Arkansas man who picked up what he thought was a piece of glass at a state park says he later learned his jelly bean-sized find was something much more valuable: It was a 4.87-carat diamond. Jerry Evans visited Crater of Diamonds State Park in Murfreesboro, Arkansas, for the first time with his girlfriend last … Read more
December 21, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. EST A Post analysis of open-source visuals and satellite imagery sheds light on the Israel Defense Forces’ claims about Hamas’s use of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. (Ronen Zvulun, Reuters/The Washington Post) Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave JERUSALEM — Weeks before Israel sent troops into al-Shifa … Read more
A security guard walks past the National Stock Exchange of India building in Mumbai, India. Dhiraj Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images India’s stock market value has overtaken Hong Kong’s to become the seventh largest in the world as optimism about the country’s economic prospects grow. As of the end of November, the total market … Read more