Doctor Maria Grazia Serra's patients have been "breathing, eating and drinking" toxins from Taranto's steelworks for decades, but a dispute over the vast Italian plant could finally see its ecological conversion. She is one of 150 doctors who last month appealed to the government not to waste the opportunity to finally turn the plant around.
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is not giving up on love -- even at age 92. Murdoch handed over control of his global media empire to son Lachlan last November, shifting to an emeritus status. tjj/acb
A US power company admitted Thursday that its equipment may have sparked the largest wildfire in Texas' history. It is not uncommon for US power companies to be blamed for destructive wildfires.
Swiss lawmakers on Thursday narrowly backed moves towards allowing the use of frozen Russian state assets to fund war reparations in Ukraine. It would be aimed at allowing frozen funds from an aggressor's central bank, or assets of its state-owned companies, to be legally transferred to an attacked state.
Porn site Pornhub is challenging the European Union's landmark digital content law, arguing it does not meet the criteria to come under stricter rules, its parent company said Thursday. Pornhub has filed a challenge with the General Court of the EU in Luxembourg, its parent company Aylo said in a statement.
The US Federal Reserve "can and will" begin cutting interest rates this year if current economic trends continue, the head of the US central bank told lawmakers in Washington Thursday.
US President Joe Biden is expected to raise pressure Thursday on major corporations and wealthy individuals, calling for them to pay more in taxes in his State of the Union speech.
France warned Thursday that the world's construction sector was not on track to decarbonise by 2050 as it co-hosts with the UN Environment Programme the first ever conference aimed at reducing the industry's impact on climate change. "The sector is not on the right path to decarbonise by 2050," the ministry said.
Saudi Arabia on Thursday said it transferred an additional eight percent stake from oil giant Aramco to firms owned by the kingdom's PIF sovereign wealth fund, according to state media. Last year, four percent of Aramco's shares, worth tens of billions of dollars, were transferred to Sanabil Investments, a firm controlled by the PIF, one of the world's biggest sovereign wealth funds.
Hundreds of thousands of passengers in Germany faced travel misery Thursday as rail and airport workers staged new strikes to back demands for higher wages. - 'No longer reliable' - Rail employees have been staging repeated strikes to demand a pay rise to help members manage the higher cost of living in light of inflation.
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