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Finance Business Insider
A Cornell scientist saved an $11-million industry - and ignited a food controversy that's raged for 30 years
It started with rotting flesh. Slicing into the green skin of a Hawaiian papaya ordinarily...
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News Yahoo News Singapore
Ho Ching had 'no business' acting on PMO's behalf in collection of LKY's papers: Hsien Yang
Lee Hsien Yang has questioned why Singapore leader Lee Hsien Loong's wife, Ho Ching, had acted “under the auspices” of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in collecting papers belonging to the late Lee Kuan Yew despite not holding an official PMO post. In a Facebook post on Thursday (22 June), Hsien Yang - the younger brother of the prime minister - noted that their father Lee Kuan Yew had been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit on 5 February 2015.
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Sports Goal.com
Man Utd transfer news: The latest & LIVE player rumours from Old Trafford
Goal summarises the biggest transfer talk involving the Red Devils as Jose Mourinho prepares for another big summer of spending
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News AFP NewsEx-Wimbledon champ Boris Becker shocked by bankruptcy
Former German tennis star Boris Becker said he was "surprised and disappointed" after being declared bankrupt by a court in London on Wednesday for failing to pay a "substantial" long-standing debt. Lawyers for the three-time former Wimbledon champion pleaded with a Bankruptcy Court registrar to allow Becker a "last chance" to pay off the debt which dates back to 2015. "Surprised and disappointed that Arbuthnot Latham chose to bring these proceedings against me," Becker, 49, wrote on Twitter, referring to the bankruptcy application made by private bankers Arbuthnot Latham & Co in connection with a judgment debt owed to them by the six-time major winner.
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News AFP NewsTrump's new idea -- a 'solar wall' on Mexican border
US President Donald Trump pitched a new concept to his supporters for the wall he intends to erect on the Mexican border: cover it with solar panels -- and use the energy to cover construction costs. "Yes, we will build a wall," he told a crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Right?" quipped the president, whose initial pledge to make Mexico pay for the wall has met with stiff resistance from America's southern neighbor.
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FinanceReuters
Qatar firms cancel expat leave, restrict travel after Arab rift
Expatriates working for Qatar Petroleum and other organisations said on Thursday their employers had cancelled holidays and barred them from leaving Qatar in the wake of its rift with other Arab states. A Qatari official said some leave had been cancelled in "essential government sectors" to keep staff on hand as authorities made plans to cope with the crisis, but did not mention travel restrictions or any focus on foreigners. Expatriate executives and engineers at the energy group said the orders started a day after Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt severed trade and transport links with Qatar this month accusing it of backing militants - a charge it dismisses.
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News AFP NewsBalotelli 'ready to make financial effort' to stay in Nice
Italian international striker Mario Balotelli is determined to stay at Ligue 1 outfit Nice next season, club president Jean-Pierre Rivere revealed on Thursday. Balotelli -- who played in Italy for AC Milan and Inter Milan and England with Liverpool and Manchester City -- joined Nice in 2016, with his 15 goals helping lift the team to third in Ligue 1 and a Champions League spot next season. The 26-year-old could opt to stay in France and try to resurrect his international career with Italy for the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.
