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Indigenous Peoples are critical partners for the development solutions needed to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet. This is due to both their significant ...

A bitter Kansas divorcee will be imprisoned for lying that her astronaut ex-wife had hacked her bank account - even though her victim was orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station at ...

Yogeshwari, a 27-year-old woman, had stepped out of work for lunch with a colleague. Little did she know the outing would turn disastrous for her, taking her life. She was crossing a road when a ...

Natural water storage is shrinking, pollution pressures are mounting, and floods and droughts are intensifying. The World Bank Group supports countries in managing ...

Charlie Nunn said the revelation had obviously "created some concern". The chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group has acknowledged there have been concerns over its use of information from staff bank ...

TOKYO – Japan’s Transport Ministry has notified airlines that it will ban the use of power banks on airplanes from April after a series of incidents in which mobile batteries caught fire on flights, a ...

Saving for a home is one of the biggest — and hardest — financial steps many people will take. Nationwide, the average down payment is $64,000, according to December 2025 data from Redfin. And while ...

Elderly bank customers say they have been forgotten as 15 bank branches are set to close, forcing some online or into long drives, while questions mount over a bank’s merger promises and its federal ...

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The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More ...