Iceland’s minister for children and education has resigned after admitting she had a child with a teenager more than three and a half decades ago, according to Icelandic media. Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir revealed that she had started a relationship with a 15-year-old boy when she was 22 and had a son with him, Iceland’s public broadcaster RUV reported on Thursday. ...
Raucous, lightning-paced and brimming with eye-catching fan costumes, the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens is like no other sporting spectacle. Each spring since 1982, for one rowdy weekend, Hong Kong Stadium – nestled among skyscrapers and lush jungle, and just a lofted drop-kick from the city’s fabled nightlife – has transformed into the Asian financial hub’s biggest and wildest party. Rugby ...
Investors have closely watched Nvidia’s week-long GPU Technology Conference (GTC) for news and updates from the dominant maker of chips that power artificial intelligence applications. The event comes at a pivotal time for Nvidia shares. After two years of monster gains, the stock is down 15% over the past month and 22% below the January all-time high. As part of the ...
Everything was breaking right for Notre Dame women’s basketball until a scary moment in the fourth quarter. With the No. 3 seeded Fighting Irish leading Stephen F. Austin 82-43 with 8:44 remaining in the final quarter of the first-round matchup of the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament, guard Olivia Miles went down with an apparent ankle injury. Miles rolled her ankle ...
Julio Urías, the former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher who waylaid his career with a pair of domestic-violence incidents, has been suspended through the 2025 All-Star break, Major League Baseball announced Friday. Urías, 28, last pitched in the major leagues on Sept. 1, 2023. Two days later, he attacked his wife in the parking lot of a professional soccer game in ...
The juiciest coaching matchup of the men’s 2025 NCAA Tournament has occurred 29 times before, over 23 college games and six NBA games. But that didn’t stop the hype from building almost as soon as the March Madness bracket was released and there was the possibility a 30th meeting between John Calipari and Rick Pitino could occur this weekend in ...
Syntheia Corp. (‘Syntheia’ or the ‘Company’) (Syntheia.ai), CSE SYAI, a leading provider of conversational AI solutions for inbound telephone call management, proudly announces 10,000 subscribers for its AssistantNLP platform ahead of Management’s expectations by nine months. Originally, management had set a milestone of obtaining 10,000 subscribers for the year 2025. Management is pleased to report that it achieved 100% its ...
Copper prices surged past US$10,000 per metric ton on Thursday (March 20), hitting a five month high as traders scrambled to secure supply ahead of potential US tariffs on the base metal. London Metal Exchange (LME) copper futures climbed sharply in early trading, reflecting a combination of supply constraints, rising demand and uncertainty surrounding trade policy. US President Donald Trump ...
The big news of the week came on Wednesday (March 19) when the US Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) convened for its March decision on whether to adjust its benchmark Federal Funds rate. Given the economic uncertainty surrounding US President Donald Trump’s economic and trade policies, it has been widely expected that the FOMC would maintain the rate ...
Bitcoin (BTC) price volatility is slowing down as the coin’s capitulation continues. At the time of writing, Bitcoin’s price was changing hands for $84,278.83 as it pared off the losses accrued in earlier trading. At this pace, the question now hinges on whether BTC can form sustainable support at the $84,000 price mark or whether further drawdown lies ahead. Core ...
Tron founder Justin Sun has waded into the ecosystem’s conversation amid a push to explore avenues to enhance the protocol’s deflationary status. The Tron ecosystem is pushing a new proposal to implement a Bitcoin-like halving for TRX. In his post on X, Justin Sun revealed how the move will not disadvantage current validators in the ecosystem. Justin Sun and Advocacy ...
Bitcoin price closed trading at $84,220 on Friday, March 21, with positive momentum from multiple news events. Here’s how Coinbase latest $5 bilion acquisition deal could impact Bitcoin prices in the long-term . Bitcoin holds $84K as Coinbase moves to Acquire Deribit Bitcoin (BTC) closed trading around the $84,200 mark on Friday, March 22, as markets retreated from upwards volatility ...