Month: January 2025

The world’s oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city of Ashiya where she lived announced on Saturday. After Itooka’s death, the world’s oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born on June 8, 1908, according to the US Gerontological Research Group and LongeviQuest. hih/bjt/mlm

The world’s financial system is a ticking time bomb. Debt, geopolitical tensions, and sensitive markets have created a dangerous time bomb that could detonate in 2025.

A winter storm is forecast to bring ice, snow and rain to a large portion of the country this weekend.

A winter storm is forecast to bring ice, snow and rain to a large portion of the country this weekend.

For a generation now, New Orleanians have been tested by a bevy of high-profile scourges. And so many have internalized, perhaps too well, a hard and potent lesson that often gets celebrated here as “resilience” but really boils down to this: How to carry on in the face of the unimaginable.

The Speaker of the House of the 119th Congress is now facing several critical political fights while navigating a razor-thin majority.

Equity analyst Dan Ives has made a quite a few prescient calls in his career. In the last year alone, he predicted the Nasdaq Composite would hit 20,000, and he remained bullish on Palantir despite widespread skepticism. Lo and behold, the Nasdaq hit 20,000 in 2024, and Palantir was the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 index. This year, Ives th…

The demand for Iranian Iron Age weapons began after a large cache of bronze and iron weapons was discovered in the western Iranian province of Luristan in the late 1920s.

Edward Pettifer, whose father is married to Tiggy Legge-Bourke, named among 14 killed in pick-up truck ramming

With an 18-foot jumper with 5:58 to play, LeBron James reached at least 30 points in the regular season for the 563rd time in his career, breaking the record established by Michael Jordan in 2003.