After barely five weeks on the job, U.K. finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng got the boot from prime minister Liz Truss last Friday and was replaced by Jeremy Hunt, a veteran Conservative party politician and former foreign minister who immediately set about righting his predecessor’s wrongs.
At the World Bank’s annual meeting last week, Germany and the U.S. presented a proposal calling for “a fundamental reform” of the institution.
Forty-six percent of Canadian households report approaching “insolvency,” defined as no more than $200 away from being unable to meet their routine basic financial obligations, according to the quarterly Consumer Debt Index compiled by MNP, a Canadian bankruptcy and insolvency counseling firm.
The average price of an airline ticket is 43 percent higher than a year ago and 0.8 percent more expensive than in August, but travelers are still taking to the skies in an ongoing post-COVID travel boom.
The prices suppliers charge factories for raw materials added 0.4 percent last month after falling in July and August, the U.S. labor department reported, a sign that inflation may still have more room to rise.
Rinsing your nasal passages with a saline solution within 24 hours of a COVID-19 diagnosis could reduce your chances of being hospitalized by 8.5-fold.
The dollar value of U.S. retail sales remained flat from August through September, according to revised figures from the commerce department that erased an initial estimate of 0.4-percent growth.
The U.S. Army will reportedly end its weight requirement for troops after it fell 25 percent short of its recruiting goal in 2022 and will instead focus on an overall fitness score.
Thousands took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to express outrage over soaring prices—adding new pressure to Paris after earlier strikes at oil refineries and nuclear power plants.
Oil workers in Iran have joined the protests sweeping the country after the death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of the morality police last month who allegedly violated the Islamic dress code.