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Financial Security, Not Fine Art, Helps Drive Japan Stocks To Record High
Before Japan's asset bubble catastrophically burst in the early 1990s, stockbroker Ryuta Otsuka remembers waving a 10,000-yen note to hail a taxi after evenings sipping champagne at high-end Tokyo...
Elton John Items Fetch $8 Million At New York Auction
Nearly $100,000 for Elton John's monogrammed silver boots and around $2 million for a triptych by street artist Banksy from his collection: the music icon's personal items brought in...
Middle East Conflict Live: Explosion Reported Off Yemen; Switzerland To Ban Hamas
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Smoke billows over buildings during Israeli bombardment in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip.
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The Israel-Hamas war has entered its...
Countries ‘Reaching Beyond Borders’ To Silence Dissidents: HRW
Governments around the world are "reaching beyond their borders" to attack their own citizens abroad in order to crush dissent, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, urging more protection for...
Japan’s Nikkei Breaks Bubble-era Record
Japan's blue-chip Nikkei 225 on Thursday finally broke through a record high set just before the country's asset bubble catastrophically burst in the early 1990s.At 12:31 pm (0331 GMT),...
Massive Leak Shows Chinese Firm Hacked Foreign Govts, Activists: Analysts
A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week has...
In A Doughnut In Japan, Unlocking The Power Of The Sun
With its tangle of pipes and pumps leading to a metal pot the size of a five-storey building, Japan's JT-60SA machine looks to the untrained eye like a contraption...
US Heads Back To The Moon — With A Commercial Spaceship
One giant leap for the private sector?A Houston-based company is set Thursday to attempt to land America's first spaceship on the Moon in more than 50 years, as part...
