Cathay Pacific has inaugurated a direct passenger service between Hong Kong and Riyadh, commencing October 28, 2024. This new thrice-weekly route on the Airbus A350-900, featuring Business, Premium Economy, and Economy cabins, marks an important step in strengthening ties between Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia. The launch aligns with the Belt and Road Initiative and…
Apple’s iPhone 16 series starts at $799, and frankly, that’s not cheap. The new iPhone 16 line does include lots of new features, including the addition of the Action button to every model alongside the new Camera Control button for fast photography access. You also have several options for buying a new iPhone, but you’ll likely…
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box. In recent weeks and months, dozens of prominent security and military officials and Republican politicians have come out against Donald Trump, declaring him a security threat,…
By Madalaine Elhabbal Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Nov 1, 2024 / 12:00 pm A Catholic diocese in China recently announced that it had made a tour of “gratitude” to heroes of the Communist Party of China. The Yibin Catholic Diocese of the Shian Province announced in a press release earlier this month that it had led all of…
Major indexes (^DJI, ^IXIC, ^GSPC) are trading slightly higher following October’s weaker-than-expected jobs report. Only 12,000 jobs were added to the economy, far below the 100,000 economists had forecasted. However, hurricanes and strikes weighed on the data. Investors now brace for two major market tests next week: the US presidential election and the Federal Reserve’s…
Reuters Locals cleaning up debris amongst the mud left behind by flash-flooding in Alfafar, Valencia Spain has been coming to terms with devastating floods which have left more than 200 people dead and dozens missing this week. Thousands of emergency services staff and military personnel have been working on search and rescue operations in flood-hit…
Study setting This is a prospective birth cohort study in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China, based on the National Key Research and Development Program “Environment and Embryonic Development.” Pregnant women from Xishui County, Meitan County, Zunyi Medical University Hospital, and the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University in Zunyi City, China, were surveyed using questionnaires,…
In 1999, years before I wrote my first words for CNET, life found me behind the wheel of a 16,000-pound Mitsubishi delivery truck making overnight drops for a local bakery chain in Milwaukee. To feel safer driving by myself, especially during Wisconsin winters, my boss got me a cell phone, the Qualcomm QCP-860, to call…
A New York author and journalist has released audio tapes that appear to detail how Donald Trump had a close social relationship with the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that he has long denied. The tapes, released as part of the Fire and Fury podcast series by Michael Wolff, author of three books about Trump’s…
This week, China confirmed that it has carried out its first dual aircraft carrier operation, while an American aircraft carrier was conducting exercises in the Western Pacific Ocean. The unprecedented Chinese military operation was conducted in the contested waters of the South China Sea and involved two carrier strike groups, led by the country’s first…