WORLD

The World Happiness Report published this week ranked a country’s happiness overall and also by age for the first time since the inaugural list over a decade ago. For Americans over 60, the U.S. ranks in the top 10, but for those under 30 it drops to 62nd place. Across the globe, younger people were typically happier than older people, except for in North America.
#WORLD #English #GR
2 years ago Read more at Fortune

XG announced the details of its highly anticipated first world tour kicking off in May. The group will then perform at K Arena Yokohama on May 25 and 26. It is also scheduled to hit North America in October and Europe in November.
#WORLD #English #TR
2 years ago Read more at Billboard

The fast-growing EV battery materials company earned the #1 ranking in Fast Company's Automotive category for the 2024 list. Other top brands on the global list include Nvidia, YouTube and Taco Bell. This year's list shines a spotlight on businesses that are shaping industry and culture through innovation.
#WORLD #English #TR
2 years ago Read more at PR Newswire

The Black College World Series will return to Montgomery for a fourth time in 2024. The BCWS will take place downtown at Riverwalk Stadium between May 8-11. HBCUs will compete against the four top teams from the NCAA Division II bracket.
#WORLD #English #TR
2 years ago Read more at WSFA

Jonathan Glazer’s latest film, “The Zone of Interest” follows a family through their daily routine. There’s a birthday celebration; the family dog that wants to follow its owners from room to room; a daughter who has sleepwalking issues. The characters in question are Rudolph Höss, the Nazi commandant of the Auschwitz death camp, his wife Hedwig, and their five small children. From its opening in 1940 to the camp’s liberation in 1945, over 1.1 million men
#WORLD #English #SI
2 years ago Read more at Military Times

The crypto crew is exploiting a dispute mechanism nested inside the World Bank, created by an obscure provision of the Central America Free Trade Agreement. The fight presents an almost-impossible-to-believe scenario: A group of libertarian investors teamed up with a former Honduran government, which was tied at the hip with narco-traffickers and came to power after a U.S.-backed military coup.
#WORLD #English #SK
2 years ago Read more at The Intercept

More toxic waste will be extracted from a World War II aircraft carrier in Charleston Harbor. The removal of over 1.2 million gallons (4.5 million liters) of petroleum and other hazards is part of an $18 million remediation effort for the USS Yorktown.
#WORLD #English #RO
2 years ago Read more at Yahoo Finance

The lab is the world's largest in vitro training facility at Rocky Mount Mills. Between 80 and 100 students travel from across the world to eastern North Carolina to train as embryologists.
#WORLD #English #PT
2 years ago Read more at WRAL News

The Los Angeles Dodgers take on the San Diego Padres in South Korea. Here are the latest World Series odds ahead of Opening Day. The New York Yankees (+900) have the fourth-best odds.
#WORLD #English #PT
2 years ago Read more at New York Post

During the Battle of Okinawa in Japan, a group of American soldiers took residence in the palace of a royal family who had fled the fighting. When a palace steward returned after the war was over, he said later, the treasure was gone. Some of those valuables surfaced decades later in the attic of the Massachusetts home of an World War II veteran.
#WORLD #English #PT
2 years ago Read more at The New York Times