World's 15 most competitive nations
The 2013 Global Competitiveness Report, produced by the World Economic Forum, profiles and analyzes 144 economies. It is the most comprehensive assessment of its kind. [Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013]
The 2013 Global Competitiveness Report, produced by the World Economic Forum, profiles and analyzes 144 economies. It is the most comprehensive assessment of its kind. [Global Competitiveness Report 2012-2013]
Alphabet announced its first-ever dividend on Thursday and a $70 billion stock buyback, cheering investors who sent the stock surging nearly 16% after the bell. The Google parent is returning capital while spending billions of dollars on data centers to catch up with rivals on generative artificial intelligence. The dividend will be 20 cents per share.
A Citi analyst contends Hermès is set to surpass its biggest competitor in the next few years and become the largest luxury fashion brand.
NEW YORK (AP) — Relentlessly rising auto insurance rates are squeezing car owners and stoking inflation. Auto insurance rates rose 2.6% in March and are up 22% from a year ago. Premium costs have been marching steadily higher since 2022, even as inflation at the consumer level steadily cooled from its 9.1% peak in the middle of that year. Consumers have had some relief as the rate of cost increases for food and energy, two key components of most budgets, has eased greatly. But auto insurance and
Greece on Friday handed over the Olympic flame to Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 Games, at a ceremony at the Panathenaic stadium in Athens, where the first modern games were held in 1896. On Saturday, the flame will board a French three-masted sailing ship to be transported to France.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Cenovus Energy has been ordered to pay a $2.5-million fine for its role in the largest offshore oil spill ever recorded in Newfoundland and Labrador. The fine was handed down in provincial court this morning, and the company has 30 days to pay up. The 2018 spill from a flowline connector in the White Rose oilfield released about 250,000 litres of oil into the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast east of St. John’s. N.L. The spill happened when the field was operated by Husky Energy,
ZEBALLOS, B.C. — A young killer whale swam under a bridge and out of a Vancouver Island lagoon on Friday, finishing her own weeks-long rescue operation to get to the open ocean. The Ehattesaht and Nuchatlaht First Nations say the team is "ecstatic," although the two-year-old whale still has to leave the Little Espinosa Inlet to reach ocean where it is hoped she'll reconnect with her family pod. A statement from the rescue team says the calf swam past the area where her mother died, under a bridg
Toronto police have identified a man who plunged to his death from an eighth-floor balcony downtown late Wednesday in the city's latest homicide.Ryan Williams, 38, of Toronto, fell from a balcony just before midnight at a highrise in the area of Church and Shuter streets, police said in a news release on Thursday.Paramedics say they transported a man to a trauma centre. He was pronounced dead in hospital, according to police.Williams is the city's 24th homicide victim of the year.Police have sai
Michael M. Santiago/GettyDonald Trump used his break between court sessions to wish wife Melania a very happy birthday with a message focused mostly on himself. “I want to start by wishing my wife Melania a very happy birthday. It would be nice to be with her—but I’m in a courthouse for a rigged trial,” grumbled the former president, who is facing 34 felony counts for allegedly falsifying business records to cover up an affair that could’ve hurt him in the 2016 presidential election. PRESIDENT T
A Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris’ detail was removed from their assignment after displaying behavior that colleagues found “distressing,” the agency said.
The palace previously announced the king's cancer diagnosis on Feb. 5.
Sabrina Carpenter went braless wearing the Mirror Palais Anemone Dress in butter featuring illusion tulle adorned with lace appliqués along the neckline and hem
Jill Cornick, 82, is out of work for the first time in her life after being told the Clarks shop she worked in since 1956 in Dorset was closing.
He wore a blonde wig, blue dress and sunglasses, photos show.
Kylie Jenner shares Instagram selfies of her new bleached eyebrow look for 2024. She looks so different, with the ash-blonde look.
“That just brings back all those bad memories about that issue," Jim Schultz told CNN's Jake Tapper.
As Greene threatens to oust House Speaker Johnson over his support for Ukraine aid, a rift has ruptured in the MAGA Media landscape.
Laurence Tribe pulled no punches over what he described as a “shameful performance by the court.”
"I'm trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into the seat of criminal activity in this country," Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said.
Poppy Harlow, who has been with CNN since 2008, is departing the network. Harlow announced her decision in a memo to colleagues. She was offered a new role following the cancellation of CNN This Morning, but instead decided to leave, the network confirmed. Harlow was co-host, along with Don Lemon and Kaitlan Collins, of CNN’s …
"The Simpsons" has killed off a long-time character who was a regular at Moe's Tavern. Fans are mourning the loss online.