The price of gold hit a record high Monday as investors rushed into the safe-haven amid concerns about China-US tensions, a spike in virus infections around the world and a lack of progress on a new stimulus bill in Washington. After months of healthy rallies across equity markets – fuelled by trillions of dollars in … Read more
Ethiopia has announced that it has started filling a lake behind its newly-constructed, £3billion dam – a move that could spark conflict with downstream neighbour Egypt amid fears it will reduce the Nile to a trickle. Seleshi Bekele, Ethiopia’s water minister, announced the move Wednesday – one day after the latest round of talks with … Read more
A senior official at the State Department has resigned in protest at President Donald Trump’s handling of the protests that sprung up after George Floyd was killed by a white cop. Mary Elizabeth Taylor, 30, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her resignation on Thursday. Taylor, the youngest assistant secretary of state … Read more
A senior official at the State Department has resigned in protest at President Donald Trump’s handling of the protests that sprung up after George Floyd was killed by a white cop. Mary Elizabeth Taylor, 30, the assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, submitted her resignation on Thursday. Taylor, the youngest assistant secretary of state … Read more
Donald Trump called for the 1,100 West Point graduates to be ‘part of one team, and one family, proudly serving one American nation’ during his commencement address, in what appeared to be a veiled reference to the nationwide George Floyd protests and amid his own tensions with the Pentagon over his infamous photo op in … Read more
In her own words, Faith Stowers said this week that she was glad she put herself ‘in the firing line’ after bravely speaking her truth against her former Vanderpump Rules co-stars Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute. Amid widespread race protests erupting across the country in the response to the killing of George Floyd, Faith, 31, spoke … Read more
More than a year of sustained protests in Hong Kong against the heavy hand of Beijing and socio-economic inequality have changed everything. The Chinese response – its new tough security law – has placed the West and the People’s Republic on a collision course which could set back commercial and financial relations by decades. Disquiet … Read more
Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Brad Falchuk have taken part in a YouTube advice session with an intimacy coach during the coronavirus lockdown. The Hollywood star and her husband of two years spent almost an hour telling Michaela Boehm about their family tensions for a video first shared to Goop members, and now posted on … Read more