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India’s housing market is defying the downdraft that has inflicted home sales and prices in the U.S. and most of the developed world.Affluent Indians who kept working during the pandemic but throttled back on spending are returning to the country’s housing market in force. They are driving up the volume of new home sales as well as prices, which stagnated in the years leading up to the pandemic. Sales of new residential units in India’s major cities in 2022 are on track to be the highest in at least eight years, according…

Sumatra tiger on the forest’s edge. Credit: UQ/Matthew LuskinSome of Asia’s largest animals, including tigers and elephants, are defying 12,000 years of extinction trends by coexisting with people, according to research led by the University of Queensland. Researchers combed through paleontological records to compare the past distribution of Asia’s 14 biggest species to their current populations in tropical forests.Zachary Amir, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Queensland’s School of Biological Sciences and the…

Opponents of China's anti-COVID measures are resorting to dating apps and social media platforms blocked on the mainland to evade censors. Opponents of China's anti-COVID measures are resorting to dating apps and social media platforms blocked on the mainland to evade censors, spread the word about their defiance and strategy, in a high-tech game of cat and mouse with police. Videos, images and accounts of the opposition to China's tough COVID-19 curbs have poured onto China's tightly censored cyberspace since…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Since Russia first invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western media has frequently suggested that economic sanctions against the Russians are going to stifle the war effort or even bring the country to its knees. As recently as early November, for example, the Wall Street Journal reported that…

Coty Inc., COTY 0.72% one of the world’s biggest beauty companies, on Tuesday said organic sales grew 9% in the quarter ended Sept. 30, the company’s sixth-straight substantial quarterly sales gain after years of declines that predate the Covid pandemic. The maker of products from CoverGirl makeup to Hugo Boss cologne said demand for makeup, fragrances and hair-care products continues to rise across regions and product categories. Organic sales strips out currency moves…

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was sentenced Friday to serve four months behind bars after defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The judge allowed Bannon to stay free pending appeal and also imposed a fine of $6,500 as part of the sentence. Bannon was convicted in July of two counts of contempt of Congress: one for refusing to sit for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents. U.S.…

Man, it’s almost enough to restore your faith in America.The happiness I felt when a jury ordered defamer extraordinaire Alex Jones to pay a billion dollars to the Connecticut parents he’d tormented for years had barely ebbed when the Justice Department did something that made my heart sing.It recommended that Stephen K. Bannon, the white nationalist chaos agent who defied the Jan. 6 select committee’s subpoena, be jailed for six months and pay a $200,000 fine. In July, a jury found President Trump’s former strategist…

The electric strategy includes building battery factories across Europe and the US. Luxury sports carmaker Porsche will debut on the Frankfurt stock exchange Thursday in one of Europe's biggest listings in years, hoping its brand power can attract investors despite market turbulence. Even as stocks…

The hawkish FED is back again, and the impact has been massive this time. The selling pressure in the crypto market is growing rapidly. The global marketcap for the crypto market had reduced by 5.79% as of writing. Solana (SOL) and Cardano (ADA) are among the coins that have posted a decline in the past few hours of the FED announcement. Bitgert (BRISE) is among the coins that withstood the selling pressure sweeping across the crypto market. Bitgert price has remained steady, with the coin projected to keep surging this…

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, was convicted on Friday of contempt charges for defying a congressional subpoena from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Bannon, 68, was convicted after a four-day trial in federal court on two counts: one for refusing to appear for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents in response to the committee’s subpoena. The jury of eight men and four women deliberated just under three hours.…