UK technology companies raised $7.4bn (£5.9bn) during the first half of 2023 in the sharpest funding decline across Europe, according to a new report. Data shows that UK tech investment fell by 57% year-over-year, while France decreased by 55% and ...

MEXICO CITY — Scientists have documented the first-known instance of a “virgin birth” by a crocodile, which had been living in isolation for 16 years at Costa Rican zoo, according to a study published on Wednesday. The female American crocodile ...

JAKARTA — Separatists in the Indonesian region of Papua where a New Zealand pilot was taken hostage in February have been siphoning off government aid money to buy black market guns for a deadly guerrilla war, officials say. The “Dana ...

NEW YORK — Schools across the US East Coast canceled outdoor activities, airline traffic slowed, and millions of Americans were urged to stay indoors on Wednesday as smoke from Canadian wildfires drifted south, blanketing cities in thick, yellow haze. The ...

If you are a student, whether that’s in college or university, your life is very busy. At least, that’s what your parents think. Because you really don’t want to call them back. We get it! Of course there are many ...

ByteDance-owned TikTok hopes to more than quadruple the size of its worldwide e-commerce operations to as much as $20 billion in merchandise sales this year, relying on growth in Southeast Asia, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The increase compares to last year’s $4.4 ...

TOKYO – Japan’s Fukuoka District Court ruled on Thursday that not allowing same-sex marriage was “in a state of unconstitutionality” in a complicated ruling that fell short of marriage-equality activists’ expectations. The ruling came a week after another district court said it was unconstitutional to not allow same-sex ...

TAIPEI – Taiwan activated its defense systems on Thursday after reporting 37 Chinese military aircraft flying into the island’s air defense zone, some of which then flew into the western Pacific, in Beijing’s latest mass air incursion. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has over the past three years ...

It’s tempting to think of Bearish Engulfing patterns as the negative counterpart to the Bullish Engulfing pattern because, technically, they sort of are. But the Bearish Engulfing pattern also presents a trading opportunity that’s unique to the downside: Stocks tend ...

The U.S. trade deficit widened to a 6-month high and by the most in 8 years. That means that we imported way more goods while our exports declined. Now, we don’t like to use one economic stat as the end ...