Human Interest 24 November 2023, 1:52 pm 1 minute Reuters was first to report that Barclays (BARC.L) is working on plans to save up to 1 billion pounds ($1.25 billion), which could involve cutting as many as 2,000 jobs, mainly in the British bank’s back office. Market Impact Barclays’ share price has fallen 26% since Venkat…
Continuing its bull run from the preceding sessions, the benchmark index of the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) hit yet another all-time high on Friday and crossed the 59,000 milestone. According to the PSX website, the KSE-100 index stuck 59,402.82 points at 10am, up 502.98 or 0.85 per cent from the previous close of 58,899.84. The…
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How intergenerational friendships can prove enriching – CBS News Watch CBS News Experts say we tend to stick to same-age relationships. But one with a significant age gap brings benefits through the sharing of life experiences. Janet Shamlian has more. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive…
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There’s more than one answer to the question “What is photography?,” and this fall in London, there is a dazzling array of possibilities on show in retrospectives of the Japanese artists Hiroshi Sugimoto and Daido Moriyama. Born 10 years apart (Moriyama in 1938, in Osaka, and Sugimoto in 1948, in Tokyo), both photographers came of…
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A train derailed and spilled a chemical in a remote part of eastern Kentucky on Wednesday, prompting officials to encourage residents of a small town to evacuate amid concerns about air quality. Gov. Andy Beshear said in a statement that local officials in Rockcastle County were encouraging residents of Livingston, with a population of about…
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Daryl Hall has filed a restraining order against his one-time musical collaborator, John Oates. The pair made up the pop rock duo Hall & Oates, and put out 18 studio albums together between 1972 and 2006. Hall filed the temporary restraining order request in a Nashville Chancery Court on Nov. 16. Oates and the co-defendants…
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Things got heated between the head coaches of Marquette and Kansas on Tuesday night during the No. 4 Golden Eagles’ 73-59 win over the No. 1 Jayhawks during the Maui Invitational semifinal. Marquette’s Shaka Smart and Kansas’s Bill Self were seen voicing frustrations with one another after a play cleared both benches. It all started…
Zerodha founder and CEO Nithin Kamath. (File photo) Zerodha CEO and founder Nithin Kamath says “young Indians are still bitten by the bug” to travel to America to build their future Even as a large number of Indians go to the US for education and jobs, Nithin Kamath has said this is a dichotomy as…
In conventional, old-fashioned stories about wish-granting genies, the number of wishes is limited to three, the better to deliver a solid punchline or useful lesson. In our consumerist and content-crazy times, a mere three wishes won’t do. “Genie,” a new film directed by Sam Boyd, stars Melissa McCarthy as Flora, a genie unleashed by an…
Election officials in Liberia on Monday formally declared Joseph Boakai the president-elect, three days after incumbent George Weah conceded defeat based on the runoff vote’s provisional results. According to the National Elections Commission, Boakai won with 50.64% of the second round balloting while Weah took 49.36%. “We are at the point where we will prepare…
