Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Don McLean's 'Vincent' lyrics expected to fetch $1 million at auction
By Omar Younis (Reuters) - The original handwritten lyrics of Don McLean's song "Vincent," a tribute to painter Vincent van Gogh, are going up for auction in November with an estimated value of $1 mil...
Sep 21, 2022
U.S. rents surge, leaving behind generation of younger workers
By Rose Horowitch (Reuters) - The cost of renting a home in the United States is surging and young workers have felt the sharpest pain, many of them taking on additional jobs or roommates to afford ho...
Sep 21, 2022
Bolsonaro's gun laws arm Brazil's brazen bank thieves
By Gabriel Stargardter UBERABA, Brazil (Reuters) - In August last year, Brazilian farmer Reinaldo Huijsmans reported a break-in at his house in the town of Maracaju, where thieves stole six legally re...
Sep 21, 2022
Italian fruit farmers use hill caves to help cut energy bills
By Matteo Berlenga PREDAIA, Italy (Reuters) - Apple farmers in the north of Italy are using natural refrigerators carved under a hillside to store their harvest in a controlled environment that remain...
Sep 21, 2022
Marketmind: Fed meets as dogs of war growl
(Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in markets from Alun John. Investors were finally starting to turn all their attention to Wednesday's interest rate announcement from the Federal Reserve, when geop...
Sep 21, 2022
Russian opposition calls for protests against Putin's 'criminal war'
TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia's opposition on Wednesday called for protests against President Vladimir Putin after he ordered the mobilisation of 300,000 reservists for what Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny sa...
Sep 21, 2022
Britain's M&S raises staff pay for second time in 2022
LONDON (Reuters) - Marks & Spencer on Wednesday became the latest British retailer to again raise pay for store workers amid a cost-of-living crisis and a tight labour market. The clothing and food gr...
Sep 21, 2022
UK's Sainsbury's in talks to sell stores worth 500 million stg
LONDON (Reuters) -British supermarket group Sainsbury's is in talks to sell 18 stores in southern England to property investor LXi REIT for about 500 million pounds ($568 million). Both companies said...
Sep 21, 2022
U.S. asks World Court to dismiss Iran's claims over frozen assets
THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday asked judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to dismiss claims by Tehran that Washington illegally allowed courts to freeze asse...
Sep 21, 2022
Youth vote more important than ever in Italy's election
By Alvise Armellini and Rodolfo Fabbri ROME (Reuters) - For the first time in Italian history, 18-24-year-olds will enjoy full voting rights at the Sept. 25 national election, meaning the voice of you...
Sep 21, 2022
