Author: Justin M. Larson

All 29-year-old French citizens are to be encouraged by their government to have babies while they still can.Health officials say the aim is to avoid these men and women facing fertility problems later on and thinking “if only I had known”. The strategy is one part of a 16-point-plan to boost the fertility rate in France, one of many western countries, including the UK where figures are tumbling.The trend is creating anxiety about how governments will able to fund pensions and healthcare for ageing populations, when there are fewer younger working people paying taxes.But globally, policies to boost fertility rates…

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the boat overturned in the perishingly cold waters of the central Mediterranean Sea, north of the coastal town of Zuwara last Friday. It is just the latest deadly incident involving vulnerable people on the move who are frequently mistreated and trafficked by smuggling gangs that have flourished in Libya since the overthrow of President Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. IOM said that the Libyan authorities rescued two Nigerian women from last Friday’s shipwreck; one said that her husband had drowned while the other reported that both her babies had died.The survivors explained that the…

The heir to the British throne will meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as Britain and Saudi Arabia look to strengthen ties. Source link

Aerial view of Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, taken from an airplane on April 3, 2025. Yamil Lage | Afp | Getty ImagesThe Cuban government said international airlines can no longer refuel there due to fuel shortages after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any country that supplies the communist country with oil.The island nation’s leadership said Sunday that Cuba will run out of aviation fuel from Monday, likely disrupting operations airlines operating there, according to EFE news agency, citing two sources. The kerosene shortage is expected to persist for the next month, with all of Cuba’s international…

NatWest’s shares fell over 4% in early market moves on Monday after the company announced a £2.7 billion ($3.7 billion) deal to acquire one of the U.K.’s largest wealth managers, Evelyn Partners.The deal will see NatWest double its total assets under management to £127 billion, up from £59 billion, the British bank said in a press release Monday.”This transaction creates the UK’s leading Private Banking and Wealth Management business, delivering the scale and capabilities needed to succeed in a market with significant growth potential,” NatWest Group’s CEO Paul Thwaite said in the release. Paul Geddes, CEO of Evelyn Partners, added…

Striking drivers are demanding increased investment and maintenance, and the hiring of more staff. Source link

Novo Nordisk shares jumped 8% Monday after Hims & Hers said it will pull its copycat weight-loss pill off the market.Novo Nordisk, maker of Wegovy, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had threatened legal action against Hims & Hers, which announced over the weekend it would not sell the pill.”Since launching the compounded semaglutide pill on our platform, we’ve had constructive conversations with stakeholders across the industry,” Hims & Hers posted on social media on Saturday. “As a result, we have decided to stop offering access to this treatment. We remain committed to the millions of Americans who depend on us for…

Police say the “transnational” criminal group has been in operation since 2017. Source link

Software and data services stocks remain under pressure after Anthropic’s rollout of a legal automation tool reignited fears of AI-driven disruption — and now one fund manager says that shorting software has become the market’s newest expression of the AI trade. Software names — along with data service companies, financial information providers and publishers — went into reverse this week amid fears that such business models could be upended by AI-driven disruption, which could see customers desert such companies. “Any company which collates, aggregates, disseminates software and data as a service are seen as increasingly vulnerable to disruption from AI-driven…

As gold and silver prices continue to seesaw, one corner of the hedge-fund industry is mining an opportunity from the huge swings in precious metals . Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), also known as trend-following or managed futures funds, are computer-driven investment strategies that trade investment trends across different futures markets, including equities, bonds, currencies, and commodities. Such strategies use a complex mix of statistical models, machine-learning algorithms, factors and other quantitative signals to identify — and bet on — upward and downward moves in markets, removing human emotion and biases from the investment process. These systematic models pounced on the…

A year after a rebel takeover, residents of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, carry violent memories and signs of hope. Source link

Social media is on trial in Los Angeles. What happens next could change the way they operate.Inside LA’s superior court, a landmark trial is getting under way. Social media companies are being accused of being addictive by design, a bit like tobacco and cigarettes were in the 1980s. They’ll face around 22 “bellwether” lawsuits, i.e. test cases, with lawyers considering the testimonies of more than 1,500 people when launching the action. Image: Shares in Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta tumbled after the closing bell. AP file pic Opening statements for the first lawsuit will start on Monday, with Meta chief executive Mark…

The face of a “vampire” whose remains were posthumously mutilated to prevent them rising from the dead can be seen for the first time in more than 400 years.Discovered in a grave at Racesa, a fortress in eastern Croatia, the body had been exhumed, beheaded and reburied face down beneath heavy stones. And since the desecration cannot be explained by environmental factors, experts believe it was done to stop the dead man returning as a vampire.Now the face of the deceased can be seen for the first time in centuries, after scientists rebuilt his likeness from his skull. Image: The…

The release of around 35 political prisoners comes amid closer cooperation between Washington and the interim government. Source link

Police have recovered DNA from a weapon but cannot determine which of the brothers used it. Source link

The Justice First party leader is among 18 political prisoners to be freed by the interim government on Sunday. Source link

Aerial footage showed the extend of floods in Spain after a series of storms hit the Iberian Peninsula. Storm Marta hit Spain on Saturday, bringing more rain to the region, as it was still recovering from Storm Leonardo.In Córdoba, drone footage showed flooded olive trees as Spanish farmers warned of the millions of euros worth of damage to crops following the torrential rains and high winds. In the country’s southern region of Andalucia, over 11,000 people have been displaced. Source link

António José Seguro is on course for a landslide victory over far-right rival André Ventura, with the majority of votes counted. Source link

The activist Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to another seven years, bringing the total she must serve to 17 years, her foundation said. Source link

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Hackers have exposed personal and contact information tied to SoundCloud accounts, with data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned reporting impacts to approximately 29.8 million users. The breach hit one of the world’s largest audio platforms and left many users locked out with error messages before the company confirmed the incident.Founded in 2007, SoundCloud grew into an artist-first service hosting more than 400 million tracks from over 40 million creators. That scale made this incident especially concerning. SoundCloud said it detected unauthorized activity tied to an internal service dashboard and launched…

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The suspects include the alleged gunman, Lyubomir Korba, whom Russia says fled to the UAE after the attack. Source link

The Trump administration, which has tightened the U.S. chokehold on Cuba by cutting off foreign oil, is betting that this is the Cuban communist revolution’s last year. Source link

U.S. presidents have long been accused of plotting to control foreign oil. But President Trump has asserted a U.S. right to take it. Source link