Once again, New York City has been revealed as the most expensive destination in the world to do business, according to a report from management consultant ECA International, with a typical trip costing $869 a day. The findings are based on the average cost of expenses such as hotel accommodation, meals, drinks, laundry, taxis and daily essentials required by people […]

A look back at Charles and Diana’s royal fairy-tale nuptials—including the secret registry, security precautions, and staggering price tag. Each Tuesday in April, Vanity Fair will flash back to a different British royal wedding in the lead-up to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s May 19 nuptials. Even though Prince Charles married Diana in 1981—a full 34 and 141 years, respectively, after the nuptials […]

More power and new chassis bits make BMW’s lovely M2 even more hardcore. The BMW M2 is one of the finest sports cars on the market today. With its combination of rear-wheel drive, turbocharged power and great balance, it’s one of the best-driving BMWs we’ve sampled in years. Goes without saying, then, that we’re on the edge […]

If the ultraviolet radiation from the sun damages human DNA to cause health problems, does UV radiation also damage plant DNA? The answer is yes, but because plants can’t come in from the sun or slather on sunblock, they have a super robust DNA repair kit. Research finds that this powerful DNA repair system in […]

Facebook announced the steps it will take to comply with a strict European privacy law known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force on May 25. The social network will begin asking users to review information on whether they want to see ads from partners, if they want to continue sharing […]

That leaves American companies vulnerable to retaliation by Beijing. It also gives them more reason to defuse trade tensions. American companies are doing much more in China than the U.S. trade deficit suggests. It’s their greatest weakness. The deficit, the difference between what the U.S. imports from China and what it exports there, widened to $375 […]

NEW YORK – A start-up launched by three Princeton University graduates for a new cryptocurrency has raised $133 million from a slew of big investors in a private placement, Intangible Labs Chief Executive Officer and co-founder Nader Al-Naji said on Wednesday. Intangible Labs is the creator of basis, a digital currency that aims to maintain […]

SANTA CLARA/HAVANA, Cuba  – The man likely to become Cuba’s next president is from a younger generation of leaders and has advocated modernizing the island but he is also a longtime Communist Party apparatchik who is not expected to push for sweeping political change. Miguel Diaz-Canel, 57-year-old first vice president, is expected to be named […]

Aries Daily Horoscope for Today 18 April 2018: Aries on this day will be entrusted with a very important secret that affects the life of an outsider. This secret does not belong to you, which means that you do not have the right to discuss it with anyone (even with people you have great confidence […]

PARIS — France persuaded President Donald Trump to stay in Syriaand launch airstrikes as punishment for an alleged chemical weapons attack, French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday. “Ten days ago President Trump wanted the United States of America to withdraw from Syria. We convinced him to remain,” Macron said on BFM television. He also said that France convinced […]