WSJ: Voormalig tegenkandidaat Ben Carson wordt minister in de regering van...
Ben Carson (65) heeft zich bereid verklaard deel te gaan uitmaken van de regering van de gekozen Amerikaanse president Donald Trump. De voormalige neurochirurg, die als Republikeins kandidaat de race...
View ArticleThousands of people suffered freak ‘thunderstorm asthma’ attacks in Australia...
On Monday, thousands of people in Victoria, Australia were rushed to hospital with breathing difficulties. Four people have reportedly died. Three more are still in a critical condition. In just a...
View ArticleTop Trump aide acknowledges grassroots furor over Mitt Romney as potential...
Top Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway noted Thursday the outcry over the president-elect’s meeting with Mitt Romney last weekend and his potential appointment as secretary of state. The former...
View ArticleLufthansa schrapt wegens staking vrijdag bijna 900 vluchten en verliest...
Lufthansa heeft in verband met een pilotenstaking 830 vluchten geschrapt uit de dienstregeling voor vrijdag. Het gaat vrijwel uitsluitend om vluchten binnen Europa, maakte de Duitse...
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Groot-Brittannië zit midden in een ‘verloren decennium’ zonder enige groei...
Groot-Brittannië stevent af op een verloren decennium zoals dat al in 70 jaar niet meer voorkwam. Dat zegt het Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). Reële lonen in Groot-Brittannië zullen in 2021 lager...
View ArticleJefferies CEO Rich Handler shares what he is thankful for this year
Jefferies CEO Rich Handler and Chairman Brian Friedman sent an open letter to their staff expressing what they are grateful for this Thanksgiving. “This is the beginning of the season where we remind...
View ArticleFaraday Future is looking at another setback after stopping work at its $1...
Faraday Future, the troubled upstart electric-car company that set out to challenge Tesla, appears to have encountered another setback. According to a report from the Financial Times on Thursday,...
View ArticleMet deze knop kun je jezelf van het internet wissen
Een kluizenaarsbestaan is niet voor iedereen weggelegd, zeker in deze tijden van alomtegenwoordig internet. Met deze vinding van twee Zweden kun je de eerste stap zetten. Om ‘uit te stappen’ waren er...
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Secretive $20 billion startup Palantir has raised another $20 million from a...
Secretive big data firm Palantir Technologies raised another $20 million in November, according to forms filed with the SEC on Wednesday. As noted by TechCrunch, the Form D filing lists November 8 as...
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Watch a US-led airstrike destroy an ISIS position as the battle for the...
For more than five weeks Iraqi forces, accompanied by Kurdish peshmerga and Shiite militias, have attacked ISIS positions in and around the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. In recent weeks, the...
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These brothers are going to make thousands of dollars after correctly...
Two Arizona brothers are in the position to make thousands of dollars after betting that the robotic hatching toys, Hatchimals, would become this year’s hottest gift of the holiday season. Mike and...
View ArticlePeople are tweeting #ThanksNASA after a Trump adviser suggested he’d axe its...
Scientists have taken to Twitter to talk about all the important work NASA’s Earth science program does, using the hashtag #ThanksNASA. Weather forecasts, disaster planning, emergency response,...
View ArticleMeet Betsy DeVos, the polarizing charter-school advocate Trump has tapped as...
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped Michigan billionaire and charter school advocate Betsy DeVos as his choice for education secretary, a move that has prompted a flurry of praise and...
View ArticleThese 14 giant corporations dominate the global auto industry
The automotive industry has experienced some incredible growth over the past couple of years. In the US alone, more than 30 automotive brands vie for the 17 million autos that are sold each year....
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This dilapidated villa once served as a Caribbean getaway for drug-kingpin...
The “King of Cocaine” was the son of a poor Colombian farmer, but by the time he was 35, he was one of the world’s wealthiest men, earning $420 million a week in revenue. At the peak of his power,...
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Colombia has a new deal to end a 52-year war, but violence and uncertainty...
Just a few weeks after the original deal suffered a surprising loss in a nationwide referendum, the Colombian government and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia rebel group announced...
View ArticlePeople have paid a company $40,000 to dig a giant hole for no reason — and...
This is the definition of a money pit. On Friday, Cards Against Humanity, the maker of the popular card game, announced it was celebrating Black Friday by digging a hole in the ground for as long as...
View ArticleTrump national security adviser Michael Flynn reportedly had ‘forbidden’...
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn installed a secret internet connection into his office at the Pentagon even though it was “forbidden,” according to a profile in The New Yorker by Dana Priest. The...
View ArticleNew York’s hottest public elementary school is harder to get into than Harvard
The elementary admissions process in New York City is utterly grueling, as evidenced by new kindergarten admissions workshops that have popped up around town. But among exemplary schools, one stands...
View ArticleUli Hoeness is net uit de bak en gaat direct aan de slag voor Bayern München
Uli Hoeness gaat opnieuw aan de slag als voorzitter van de raad van toezicht bij Bayern München. De 64-jarige Duitser, die in 2014 de gevangenis in moest vanwege belastingontduiking, werd vrijdag...
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