The world could see a second wave of tariff war as Donald Trump takes office this January. The US President-elect has threatened a 100% tariff on the BRICS countries, including India, if they undercut the US dollar or replace it with another currency for international transactions. His remarks follow a BRICS meeting in October that […]

Palestinian group Hamas released a video on Saturday featuring an American-Israeli hostage, Edan Alexander. Held in Gaza since the devastating October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Alexander directly addresses US President-elect Donald Trump in English and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Hebrew, pleading for intervention and urging Israelis to pressure their government for the […]

A monkey with a gene-edited pig kidney managed to survive for over six months in China as scientists continue to make breakthroughs in their research of transplantation of organs from one species into another. According to researchers at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology’s affiliated Tongji Hospital, the team transplanted a single gene-edited pig […]

For centuries, humans have used actuarial tables to figure out how long they’re likely to live. Now artificial intelligence is taking up the task – and its answers may well be of interest to economists and money managers. The recently released Death Clock, an AI-powered longevity app, has proved a hit with paying customers – […]

US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Indian-American Pentagon official Kashyap “Kash” Patel as FBI director. Mr Patel, a Trump loyalist, has been a vocal advocate of dismantling what he refers to as the “deep state” within the US government.  “Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing […]