The United States is considering restricting imports of Venezuelan crude oil and exports of U.S. refined products to Venezuela, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday, to put pressure on socialist President Nicolas Maduro to “return to the constitution.” “One of the aspects of considering sanctioning oil is...
Researchers at Stanford University's School of Medicine have made a breakthrough in a new cancer treatment experiment. According to a study, injecting two immune-stimulating agents directly into tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancers in the animals, including cases of distant, untreated metastases. Eighty-seven percent of 90 mice were...
As an awesome follow up to the revelations of ancient creatures, upwards of 70 tracks of around 8 such creatures have been found in the backyard of the federal agency, NASA by a dinosaur-track master named Ray Stanford. Nasa’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland unwittingly housed the impressions...
Cutting the number of Royal Marines and the ships they use to carry out beach landings would significantly undermine UK security, MPs have warned. There is speculation the government is considering axing up to 2,000 marines and the Royal Navy's two specialist landing ships in a security review. But a Commons...
If you live in the South African city of Cape Town, you can't get away from the fear of "Day Zero." Residents have been forced to think about how they will flush toilets, shower or even drink water in the days and months ahead—all coming to a climax in April...
The U.S. judge who will decide if wireless and pay TV provider AT&T Inc may purchase Time Warner Inc said on Friday that he saw “no big issues” in pre-trial preparations. The Justice Department has said that the $85 billion deal is illegal because AT&T, once it owned movie and...
The sale of Merck KGaA’s (MRCG.DE) consumer health unit has been thrown off track after Nestle (NESN.S) has pulled out, leaving the race to buy the maker of Seven Seas vitamins without its main contender, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Nestle has walked away from the process, led...
Here's a reminder that while you are out in the world buying groceries, picking up dry cleaning or catching up on The Crown, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is on the red planet doing work. The nuclear-powered mobile science laboratory has been slowly roving across the surface of Mars since 2012,...
Exxon Mobil Corp and Chevron Corp posted rare quarterly earnings misses on Friday as cost cuts and rising oil prices failed to offset weakness in international refining operations, sending shares of both companies plunging. The results surprised Wall Street, where analysts had been steadily raising expectations due to stronger crude...
Put it on your Starbucks card. But we're not talking about one of those gift cards. The coffee king has a new idea to fight slowing sales -- its own Visa credit card. It'll help you build Starbucks rewards even if you're using it to buy stuff outside of the...
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