SEC Chairman Gary GenslerPhoto: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg (Getty Images) The Security and Exchange Commission’s X account was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, sending an untrue tweet that the Bitcoin ETF was approved. Chairman Gary Gensler quickly tweeted from his personal account that the tweet was false and the result of a hack. In the following 15 minutes, … Read more
HELSINKI — Finland and Sweden recorded their coldest temperatures of the winter Tuesday when thermometers plummeted as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) as a cold spell grips the Nordic region. Cold and snow disrupted transportation throughout the region, including in Norway where a major highway in the south was closed due … Read more
High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return 3 to 5 times invested capital. Several leading India investors including Peak XV Partners, Elevation Capital, Lightspeed, Nexus and Accel have raised $500 million-plus in the past two years, … Read more
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle quit royal duties back in 2020 and live in California with their kids Archie and Lilibet Prince Harry gets sweet advice over UK return as popularity plummets Duke of Sussex Prince Harry has received a sweet advice from a PR expert over returning to Britain amid claims he and Meghan … Read more
By Charlotte Greenfield (Reuters) – Opium poppy production in Afghanistan, previously the world’s top supplier, has plummeted since the Taliban administration banned the cultivation of narcotics last year, a United Nations report said on Sunday. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said opium cultivation fell throughout the country to just 10,800 hectares (26,700 … Read more
WeWork is on the verge of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal. If WeWork does indeed file, it shouldn’t come as a shock to close followers of the flexible workspace provider. WeWork warned in August in its second-quarter earnings that “substantial doubt exists about the … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave RIGA, Latvia — Russia has freed up to 100,000 prison inmates and sent them to fight in Ukraine, according to government statistics and rights advocates — a far greater number than was previously known. The sharp drop in the number of inmates is evidence that the Defense … Read more
A household’s journey to an amusement park in Mexico shortly was a near-disaster final week when a younger boy plunged about 40 ft from a zipper line. The kid survived after falling right into a lake and being rescued by a number of bystanders. Video of the harrowing ordeal at Parque Fundidora in Monterrey, Mexico, … Read more