Georgian Orthodox Church calls for Stalin religious icon to be changed

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, sits with his attorney Abbe Lowell as he makes a surprise appearance at a House Oversight Committee markup and meeting to vote on whether to hold Biden in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to a request to testify to the House last month, on Capitol…

Shoppers at delicatessen market stall in Milan, Italy, on Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Headline inflation in the euro zone jumped to 2.9% in December, up from 2.4% the previous month, though core inflation continued to ease, according to data released Friday by Eurostat. The annual print was a little…

Palestinians cross a flooded street at a makeshift camp housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah, Gaza, on January 2. AFP/Getty Images Mohammed Hamouda says the streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza, are thick with pollution as beggars and homeless civilians try to survive in sheltering conditions ravaged by death and disease. “Life here is very difficult,”…

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save LONDON — England’s most famous all-boys boarding school, known for educating over a third of the country’s prime ministers and several of the royal family’s children, has an awkward problem to flush out. After heavy rain caused the local sewage system to flood, the school…

If you rode your Big Tech winners into the new year, now might be the time to consider whittling down a few of those overweight positions. The 2023 dominance of the “Magnificent Seven” stocks — Apple , Alphabet , Amazon , Meta Platforms , Microsoft , Nvidia and Tesla — carried the S & P…

A risk-on attitude in 2024 could create tailwinds for digital ad companies — even after Big Tech’s blockbuster year, according to RBC Capital Markets. Tech giants, including Nvidia and Meta , carried the Nasdaq Composite to a 43% gain in 2023. Although some on Wall Street are concerned that last year’s tech stock rally has…