25.05.2024 5:19 Wealthy, democratic and strategically located off the Chinese coast, Taiwan has long been the most volatile issue between the US and China. Both sides have avoided serious conflict by leaving unsettled the question of who actually owns the island. But it’s becoming harder to avoid as China’s military ratchets up exercises near what President Xi Jinping views as his country’s lost territory. Standing in the way are the US Pacific Fleet and Taiwanese voters, who have emphatically rejected closer t25.05.2024 5:35 The US Department of Agriculture has banned imports of some poultry products from Australia’s Victoria state after the detection of an outbreak of avian flu.25.05.2024 6:02 The Philippines has warned of heavy rainfall and strong winds hitting the archipelago as Tropical Depression Aghon made landfall on Saturday, and threatened to intensify into a typhoon before leaving the Southeast Asian nation.25.05.2024 8:00 Chancellor recognises threat to senior Conservative figures posed by tactical voting at general election25.05.2024 8:28 Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. says it isn’t legally responsible for the devastating fire last year that razed the historic town of Lahaina — it was Maui County’s fault.25.05.2024 9:00 The right likes markets but not their cultural consequencesВ 25.05.2024 9:00 Political success starts with the wardrobeВ 25.05.2024 9:00 America has become unhealthily dependent on loose money and big government, argues Ruchir Sharma25.05.2024 9:00 The dark days of sweet wine and poor quality have never felt further away25.05.2024 9:01 The U.S. effort to get aid into Gaza via a floating pier in the Mediterranean Sea was off to a sluggish start, with deliveries far below daily targets for the more than two million people there facing cri ... 25.05.2024 9:01 Died: Morgan Spurlock, “Super Size Me” documentarian, 53. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 The U.S. and its allies are moving toward an agreement on a novel financing plan that would provide Ukraine with up to $50 billion. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 Gang members in Haiti have killed two American missionaries and a Haitian director they worked with, the Missions in Haiti group said. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 Alibaba plans to raise $4.5 billion through a convertible-bond issue to fund share repurchases. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 Families of children killed in the 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, sued the maker of Call of Duty videogames, Instagram and an AR-15 rifle manufacturer, accusing them marketing military-style semiaut ... 25.05.2024 9:01 Ukraine hit a Russian military complex in Crimea with long-range missiles that were provided by the U.S. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 Eli Lilly will spend $5.3 billion to boost manufacturing capacity for its anti-obesity drug Zepbound and cousin diabetes drug Mounjaro. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 E.l.f. Beauty is increasing its marketing investment to 25% of net sales in its fiscal 2024 from 7% in fiscal 2019. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 U.K. retail sales slipped 2.3% in April compared with a month earlier, more sharply than forecast. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 The S&P 500 and Nasdaq rose for the fifth straight week while the Dow snapped a weekly winning streak that had lasted since mid-April. ... 25.05.2024 9:01 Kabosu, the Shiba Inu dog who became an internet meme and mascot of the cryptocurrency dogecoin, died. ... 25.05.2024 9:02 With more than 10,000 competitive events worldwide, the game is enjoying a post-pandemic resurgence. ... 25.05.2024 9:02 “I was pretty shocked,” says Eightball co-creator Benjamin Craver, who is suing Emory University over the suspension. ... 25.05.2024 9:03 Gen Zers look for dialogue amid the acrimony. “A lot of us are scared.” ... 25.05.2024 11:00 French President Emmanuel Macron heads to Germany for a three-day state visit on Sunday that will test the ability of the European Union’s core couple to set the bloc’s agenda just two weeks before potentially bruising elections.25.05.2024 11:02 Advisers warn an incoming Labour government could ditch or delay fixes to tax-rule errors as it rolls out its own agenda25.05.2024 11:15 Vietnam’s monetary authority reiterated its plan to keep selling dollars to some banks as a way of intervening in the foreign exchange market to support the local currency, which has fallen to a record low.25.05.2024 12:31 China said a deputy head of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration is under investigation by the anti-graft agency for “serious violations” of the law, the latest senior government official to be probed for alleged wrongdoing.25.05.2024 13:11 The early-year acceleration in workers’ pay in the euro zone is no cause for concern on inflation, according to European Central Bank Governing Council member Mario Centeno.25.05.2024 14:02 In this month’s roundup, true stories of air disasters (and why they’re so rare), as well as love letters to life in the skies.25.05.2024 14:04 Someone needs skills training.25.05.2024 14:04 The argument is the organization’s attempt to maintain the last vestiges of its amateur model and to prevent college athletes from collectively bargaining. 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