Increasingly besieged at home by working class struggles against his draconian labour laws, French President Emmanuel Macron travelled to the other side of the world this week for a six-day visit to Australia and the nearby French outpost of New Caledonia. While Macron is undoubtedly seeking to use the trip to shore up his position […]

Twitter on Thursday issued a security alert recommending its 336 million users change their passwords, the result of an apparent bug that caused some codes to be stored unprotected on an internal log.  The company revealed the issue in a post to its official blog and a tweets from Twitter Support. CEO Jack Dorsey and Twitter’s official account retweeted the […]

A group of travel agents who spoke to Travel Market Report recently, raised an old issue that’s attracting new interest: suppliers who don’t pay agents the commissions they are due. Sometimes it’s a hotel that offers to upgrade a guest, then cancels the agent’s booking and rebooks the reservation, so the agent does not get […]

A federal judge has ordered Shawn Carter, better known as Jay-Z, to explain why he shouldn’t have to testify in an SEC probe into Iconix, the company that now owns the Rocawear clothing brand he co-founded. Carter must appear in a Manhattan court room on May 8 to make his case, according to a court […]

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted Thursday, sending lava shooting into the air in a residential neighborhood and prompting mandatory evacuation orders for nearby homes. Hawaii County said steam and lava poured out of a crack in Leilani Estates, which is near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island. Footage shown on local television showed lava […]

Apple Inc’s stock hit an all-time high on Friday after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc disclosed it had bought 75 million more shares of the iPhone maker in the first three months of the year. Buffett’s increased stake, confirmed by a representative of the billionaire investor, pushed Apple’s shares up as much as 3.8 percent […]

It has become apparent that scalability in the world of blockchain technology will remain a pressing problem. While cryptocurrency developers are working on addressing these issues right now, there is no unified approach. BloXroute Labs is working on a proprietary solution that will allegedly offer scaling and be compatible with all existing and future blockchains without too much of a problem. It’s an ambitious goal, and one […]

Washington –President Donald Trump has requested options for reducing the number of US troops in South Korea, the New York Times reported late Thursday, citing several people briefed on the matter. The President’s request of the Defense Department comes ahead of his highly anticipated sit-down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, expected to take place along the […]

Aries (March 21-April 19) Something unusual or unexpected might impact your travel plans today. You might suddenly have to take a trip or conversely, a scheduled trip might be changed, delayed or cancelled. This same influence is a mild accident-prone influence as well so do be careful. Pay attention. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Double check […]

On this beautiful spring day, we welcome Jason Kibbey Design and Landscape as a new WSB sponsor. Here’s what they would like you to know: Are you looking for an exterior space to match the detail of your home’s interior? Do you want to extend your living space out into the garden? Jason Kibbey Design and Landscape has distinguished […]