By Katie Paul (Reuters) – Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants racing to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster development of industry standards that would make the companies’ nascent digital worlds compatible with each ot…
Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall are getting a divorce – NYT
(Reuters) -Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and actress Jerry Hall are getting a divorce, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. Murdoch got married to Hall in a low-key ceremony in central London in March 2016….
Latin America’s new ‘pink tide’ gains pace as Colombia shifts left; Brazil up next
By Isabel Woodford, Carlos Vargas and Gabriel Araujo MEXICO CITY/BOGOTA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Latin America’s new “pink tide” is gaining pace after Colombia elected its first leftist leader Gustavo Petro, with Brazil expected to follow suit in election…
Biden asks Congress to pause gas tax to help lower record pump prices
By Jarrett Renshaw and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on Congress to pass a three-month suspension of the federal gasoline tax to help combat record pump prices and provide temporary relief for American …
Yellowstone partially reopens after historic flooding
By Randi Love (Reuters) – Yellowstone partially reopened under restricted conditions Wednesday after historic flooding forced the entire national park to close on June 13 for the first time in 34 years. According to notices on its website, 80 percent o…
Exclusive-Lebanon’s Bank Audi, others, disavow banking group’s objection to IMF plan
By Timour Azhari and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) -Lebanon’s Bank Audi and Al-Mawarid Bank said on Wednesday they disagreed with a letter sent on behalf of the country’s banking association that branded a staff-level agreement (SLA) with the Internati…
Scientists probe link between ‘snow blood’ and climate change
By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse CHAMONIX, France (Reuters) – Standing on a snowy mountainside about 2,500 metres above sea level, Eric Marechal holds up a crimson test-tube. Inside is an algae sample known as “snow blood,” a phenomenon that acc…
Exclusive-Inside the hangar at the centre of $1 billion Airbus-Qatar jet dispute
By Alexander Cornwell and Tim Hepher DOHA (Reuters) -Two high-tech Airbus A350 jets sit idle with their windows taped and engines covered in a floodlit hangar in the Gulf, hobbled by an international legal dispute between European industrial giant Airb…
After fractious debate, EU Parliament votes to back “biggest ever” carbon market overhaul
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Parliament backed reforms to the EU carbon market on Wednesday, allaying fears of a delay to Europe’s climate change policies after lawmakers had rejected the proposals in a first vote this month. The pro…
Sport-Hockey, triathlon join raft of sports reviewing transgender policy
By Rohith Nair and Aadi Nair (Reuters) -The International Hockey Federation (IHF) and World Triathlon have joined a raft of governing bodies reviewing their policy on the involvement of transgender athletes in women’s sport following last weekend’s rul…