Gen Z ditching 4-year colleges for trade schools, Wall Street Journal reports...
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A severe drought in the Brazilian Amazon is disrupting transport, isolating communities and killing wildlife. The Brazilian government attributes the drought to climate change and the El Niño weather phenomenon, which has caus...
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A 7-year-old boy swam for an hour, finally getting to shore and ultimately saving his family. Chase Poust, his 4-year-old sister and their father went fishing off the Florida coast Friday night....
US and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska. Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries "to attack China&...
President Donald Trump and his challenger Joe Biden have fiercely clashed in one of the most chaotic and rancorous White House debates in years. Amid angry shouting and name calling, the two fought over the pandemic, white supremacy and the ...
Street vendors are being denied the "right to shade" under street trees in Hyderabad, India, a study suggests. Urban trees play an important role in providing a comfortable work environment for the city's outdoor traders, said rese...
The US and China have signed an agreement aimed at easing a trade war that has rattled markets and weighed on the global economy. Speaking in Washington, US President Donald Trump said the pact would be "transformative" f...
Iranian boats tried to impede a British oil tanker near the Gulf - before being driven off by a Royal Navy ship, the Ministry of Defence has said. HMS Montrose, a British frigate escorting the tanker British Heritage, was forced to move between the ...
At least four more bodies have been recovered as salvage crews raised the wreck of a tourist boat that sank on the Danube in Budapest last month. Divers entered the boat as a floating crane slowly brought it to the surface. The Mermaid was ...
Seven South Korean tourists have died and at least 19 more are missing after a boat capsized on the Danube river in Hungary's capital, Budapest. Thirty tourists and three tour guides, as well two Hungarian crew members, were on the boat when...
US President Donald Trump has said Huawei could be part of a trade deal between the US and China, despite branding the telecoms firm "very dangerous". The US-China trade war has escalated in recent weeks with tariff hikes and threa...
Some of the world's biggest footwear firms are urging Donald Trump to end the US trade war with China, warning of a "catastrophic" effect on consumers. In a letter signed by 173 companies, including Nike and Adidas, they said the p...
The US has more than doubled tariffs on $200bn (£153.7bn) worth of Chinese products, in a sharp escalation of the countries' damaging trade war. Tariffs on affected Chinese goods have risen to 25% from 10%, and Beijing has vowed to ret...
President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming it treats the country unfairly. "If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO," Mr Trump said in an interview with Blo...
The European Union and Japan signed a huge free trade deal on Tuesday that cuts or eliminates tariffs on nearly all goods. The agreement covers 600 million people and almost a third of the global economy. It's also a major endorsement of a global tr...
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US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on an additional $200bn (£151bn) of Chinese goods in a growing trade row. Mr Trump said the 10% tariffs would come into effect if China "refuses to change its practices". Th...
Massive US tariffs have come into force as condemnation of the Trump administration's move intensifies. Criticism of the import tax on steel and aluminium from the EU, Canada and Mexico was joined by top Republicans. Leaders from affected nations r...