China has announced new tariffs of 84% on imports of all US goods, in a move that sent stock markets falling further and will raise fears of further escalation of Donald Trump’s trade war. The Chinese ministry of finance said on Wednesday that it would impose 84% tariffs on US goods from Thursday, up from…
A “ten-pound pom” left Glasgow for Australia after the war and never saw her family again. My gran’s little sister occupied an empty space for me until last year, when a couple of enterprising women posted a photograph online that they had taken of a tombstone in a Tasmanian cemetery. It would bring me in…
You wouldn’t think a deep dive on slime-squishing and head-scratching videos could be haunting, but a recent study on ASMR content left me haunted and also slightly grossed out. ASMR, for those not particularly online, is a content genre named after the feeling it provokes in some viewers: autonomous sensory meridian response, a pseudoscientific name…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Billions wiped off Australian stocks Jonathan Barrett In Australia, shares swung wildly early on Wednesday, wiping tens of billions of dollars of value from the market over concerns the world’s two largest economies are headed for a full-blown trade war. The…
The Greek prime minister has appointed a former far-right student activist to the helm of the migration ministry as part of a broad reshuffle aimed at “resetting” his government amid public outrage over its handling of a deadly 2023 train crash. In an attempt to stem declining approval ratings, Kyriakos Mitsotakis placed the self-described nationalist,…