South Korean president travels to UAE, seeks arms sales
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has received an honor guard welcome on a trip to the United Arab Emirates.
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Cocktails in comfort: why homewear is the new staying-in staple
Trend features feathered and furry PJs, posh robes and structured slippers as daytime dressing for housebound fashionistasForget your old university sweatshirts and saggy leggings. Post pandemic, there’s a whole new category of clothing emerging specif…
Davos’s elite will need to do some soul-searching in a world falling apart
The first proper World Economic Forum for three years will take place against a humbling backdrop of crisis and conflictThe war in Ukraine. A rapidly slowing economy, fragmentation and de-globalisation. The rising cost of living. Climate change. There …
Will Digital Signatures Replace Handwritten Ones?
The Toronto Star notes “the near-elimination of cursive from the school curriculum and a move to paperless commerce” over the past two decades. So where does that leave handwritten signatures?
Then the pandemic hit, and with it came an accelerated ad…
Virgin Orbit’s Sixth Launch Became a ‘Fireball’ on Monday
It was meant to be the first-ever orbital mission to take off from the United Kingdom — carried by a Virgin Orbit rocket launched from a private jumbo jet Monday over the Atlantic ocean, according to the BBC.
But instead “at an altitude of appr…
Thousands protest in Germany against coal mine expansion
Thousands of people are demonstrating in persistent rain to protest the clearance and demolition of a village in western Germany that is due to make way for the expansion of a coal mine.
Turkish official gives June date for Nordic NATO expansion
A senior Turkish official says Sweden and Finland are unlikely to be able to join NATO before June.
Germany opens its 2nd liquefied natural gas terminal
Germany has inaugurated its second liquefied natural gas terminal.
‘Wings like cracked eggshells’: Richard Branson faces turbulence over safety of space flights
Investors are pursuing legal action against Virgin Galactic, claiming the company’s two spacecraft were not designed for regular space travelIn a desert basin in New Mexico, Richard Branson hopes history will be made later this year with the launch of …
Bed Bath & Beyond sees ‘meme-stock’ surge – but is it too little, too late?
The US home retailer, once worth $17bn, looks destined to enter chapter 11 despite a market rally this week. What went wrong?Bed Bath & Beyond, the pioneering home goods retailer, appears to be heading for bankruptcy. But you wouldn’t necessarily k…