In the week that we learn Prince Harry has lost another court case, the first product from American Riviera Orchard has been rolled out and it is - ta da! - a jar of strawberry jam.
The board is asking shareholders to approve Musk’s compensation package after it was struck down by a Delaware judge.
Dimitris Givisis: How do you judge things in the run-up to the elections? Vijay Prashad: India’s elections are a mammoth exercise, with 970 million people allowed to vote between April 19 and June 1. The election itself started with a scandal around Electoral Bonds, which are monetary vehicles that would allow undeclared money to be More
Jazz Appreciation Month was created in 2001 at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. April was selected because a lot of jazz greats were born this month, including Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae, Charles Mingus, and Herbie Hancock. This year, JAM is a celebration of Ellington, because 2024 marks his 125th birthday. Also in April, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization—often referred as UNESCO—celebrates...
The Awutu Breku District Court has sentenced Emmanuel Agbeshie to eight months imprisonment for hitting the upper face and lips of a teacher whom he claimed had caused his penis to disappear.
Are we missing the forest for the trees? More than timber grows in forests — including products worth many tens of billions of dollars. Because these goods go unrecorded in
In the Roman Empire, custom taxes on spices, black pepper in particular, accounted for up to a third of the empire's annual income. During the late Middle Ages, European efforts to cut out middlemen and monopolize the spice trade led to colonization in Asia. Historically, non-timber forest products have frequently played a key role in the global economy.
Hamilton, Halton, Niagara and area news from CHCH - Hamilton, Halton, and Niagara news.. A big update from the federal government about the future of the Canadian military, as billions of dollars in new spending on upgrades to equipment like submarines was announced. But Monday’s long-awaited defence policy update does not include a plan to reach NATO’s spending target, something our allies have had issue with for years. The federal […]
Coalition of civil society groups says Paris should return harsh reparations imposed on Caribbean state two hundred years agoFrance should repay billions of dollars to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for recognising the island’s independence, according to a coalition of civil society groups that is launching a new push for reparations.The Caribbean island state became the first in the region to win its independence in 1804 after a revolt by enslaved...
As discovered earlier Sunday — after a three-hour delay — somebody finally won the Powerball jackpot.
Michael RaineyApril 12, 2024President Joe Biden on Friday announced another round of student loan forgiveness, part of a piecemeal effort that
President Biden announced $7.4 billion in new student loan forgiveness days