Today, the practice of giving lavish gifts mostly exists in Gulf states and autocratic governments. “Autocracies like China give much more expensive gifts,” says Morten Skumsrud Anderson, who co-authored a study on diplomacy and gifts with Sending. In the West, Anderson says, the tradition has been watered down by democratic guardrails and restrictions. For example,…
The uncomfortable truth for Xi is that his domestic economy is in trouble. While the country sells a record number of goods around the world, consumers at home are holding back. Youth unemployment remains stubbornly high and property prices have slumped in a country where 80% of people own their own homes. Trade is helping…
British rapper Yung Filly will face a retrial for rape in Australia next June after a jury failed to reach a verdict during an earlier trial. In July, a jury acquitted the 31-year-old – whose real name is Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos – of three counts of rape, one of assault and one of strangulation…
A workplace story shared by a man named Harshit Mahawar has sparked discussion online after he claimed that regularly using incognito mode while working helped create an unusual impression among his employers and colleagues. According to Mahawar, he uses private browsing for his office work because he believes employers monitor employees’ browsing activity. However, his…
A Pittsburgh pediatric doctor was killed and his wife was wounded when they were brutally stabbed while they slept in their bed, police said Thursday. Police responded to a home in Edgewood on Thursday shortly after midnight and found Idris Evans, 46, and his wife with “multiple stab wounds,” Allegheny County police said. Evans, a…
Australia has said this incident is the first of its kind, and experts agree it might be. As far as we know, hacks carried out by AI agents are still quite rare occurrences – but then again, it is largely up to companies themselves to disclose them. Hacks like this have happened before. In July,…
The United States has announced a new visa restriction policy targeting people and businesses involved in what it calls commercial “birth tourism” networks.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the policy on September 23, saying it will be used against people who knowingly engage in, have engaged in, or facilitate birth tourism to the US….
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In a statement on Thursday, the rapper said that the last couple of weeks had shown him there had been “a collective awakening around Palestinian liberation, the power of billionaires that try to censor that call, and what we expect from artists right now”. “What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one…
Oracle logo is screened on a mobile phone for illustration photo. Krakow, Poland on July 13th, 2026. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Shares of Oracle Corp Japan surged more than 7% Friday after the company reported record fiscal first-quarter sales and profits, as its cloud business posted…
