Reg Murphy, a renowned journalist whose newsgathering career included stints as an editor and top executive at newspapers in Atlanta, San Francisco and Baltimore — and who found himself the subject of national headlines when he survived a politically motivated kidnapping — has died at age 90. Murphy, who lived on St. Simons Island, Georgia, […]
Most of us would love to have $10 million stashed away when we retire. Yet most of us will never get there. In fact, most of us will get nowhere close. But that doesn’t mean attaining a $10 million nest egg is out of the question. You’ll have to remain incredibly disciplined, but if you […]
In a long-sought move, the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday formally began the process of abandoning oral doses of a common over-the-counter decongestant, which the agency concluded last year is not effective at relieving stuffy noses. Specifically, the FDA issued a proposed order to remove oral phenylephrine from the list of drugs that drugmakers […]
Voters in Botswana have rejected the country’s long-serving governing party in a result that marks a political earthquake in the diamond-rich southern African nation. The Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) – in power since independence in 1966 – has won only one parliamentary seat as of early Friday morning, election results so far show. President Mokgweetsi […]
After a recent dam disaster, Nigerian officials blamed God, climate change and poor people. But experts had warned the dam was at risk well before it collapsed. The officials did nothing.
Analysis of the Bullet Cluster, which was formed after two large clusters of galaxies collided, supports the existence of dark matter. X-ray: NASA / CXC / CfA / M. Markevitch et al.; Optical: NASA / STScI; Magellan / U. Arizona / D. Clowe et al.; Lensing Map: NASA / STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan / U. […]
(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades. The Sahara does experience rain, but usually just a few inches a year and rarely in late summer. Over two days […]
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s now almost exactly a quarter-century since the economists Barry Eichengreen and Ricardo Hausmann first argued that the “original sin” of the developing world was borrowing in overseas currencies like the dollar. For centuries, this […]
