Angela Merkel visits the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki walked past the infamous “Work Sets You Free” gate at the Auschwitz memorial on Friday....
Brief visit to severely polluted city can up biomarkers of heart disease
(Reuters Health) – Air pollution has often been linked with increased heart disease risk, but a “natural experiment” involving travelers to a city much more...
New mining waste dam rules should not be retroactive, says review chief
New global standards for mining waste dams should take into account the difficulties of making existing dams compliant, the chair of an independent panel of...
U.S. agencies looking into Goldman-1MDB settlement below $2 billion: Bloomberg
Goldman Sachs Group Inc could end up paying less than $2 billion to resolve criminal and regulatory probes over its role in raising money for...
U.S. FTC finds Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users
U.S. regulators on Friday said they had found now-defunct British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica deceived consumers about the collection of Facebook Inc data for...
FDA approves Amgen’s biosimilar to J&J’s rheumatoid arthritis drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Amgen Inc’s biosimilar copy of Johnson & Johnson’s blockbuster rheumatoid arthritis drug, Remicade, according to the...
Swedish start-up Epidemic Sound tunes into demand for original music
Epidemic Sound, backed by Spotify’s investors, is one of a new wave of music companies expanding rapidly on the back of demand for easy access...
U.S. recorded 15 cases of measles over the past month
The United States recorded 15 measles cases over about a month as of Dec. 5, taking the total cases for the year to 1,276 in...
Bumper jobs data, upbeat trade tone push Wall Street higher
U.S. stocks jumped on Friday as a strong jobs report and upbeat comments from President Donald Trump on trade talks with China breathed new life...
Teenager who threw boy from London Tate Modern platform admits attempted murder
A British teenager admitted on Friday to throwing a six-year-old French boy from a 10th-floor viewing platform at the Tate Modern art gallery in London...