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  • Pakistan military court sentences 60 civilians up to 10 years in prison

    A Pakistani military court sentenced sixty civilians to jail time ranging from 2 to 10 years in connection with attacks on military facilities following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan in 2023, the military's media wing said on Thursday. Those sentenced include a relative of Khan as well as two retired military officers. Khan’s arrest in May 2023 sparked countrywide protests that saw his supporters attack and ransack military installations in an unprecedented backlash against Pakistan’s powerful army generals.

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  • How Long You Could Last on Nothing but Social Security in 50 Major Cities

    It's time to reconsider retiring on Social Security alone, especially if you're one-half of a married couple. New data from GOBankingRates shows that across 50 major U.S. cities this income will not...

  • 6 Reasons End-of-Year Car Deals Aren’t Always the Best Move

    The hype around year-end car sales can make buyers feel like they're missing out if they don't act fast. After all, dealers are advertising big discounts and the idea of saving money before the clock...

  • 2 Best Investments To Beat Inflation, According to Warren Buffett

    Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic nearly five years ago, the U.S. has experienced 40-year record-high inflation that has just over the past year started to cool down. As per the U.S. Bureau of...

  • China revises up 2023 GDP, sees little impact on 2024 growth

    China revised upwards on Thursday the size of its economy by 2.7%, but said the change would have little impact on growth this year, as policymakers pledged more stimulus to spur expansion in 2025. Gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023 was raised by 3.4 trillion yuan to 129.4 trillion ($17.73 trillion), Kang Yi, the head of the National Bureau of Statistics, told a presss conference, while releasing the fifth national economic census. China's economy has "withstood the test of multiple internal and external risks over the past five years, and maintained a generally stable trend while progressing," Kang said.

  • Can I travel around the UK by public transport on Boxing Day?

    Exclusive: Key questions and answers for travelling around the UK by train, bus, ferry and air for the rest of the year

  • What colors can cats see? Here's how your pet perceives the world.

    Animals see differently than humans. Cats can navigate low-light environments, but what about their perception of color?

  • New Year's resolutions: self-improvement guru Francesca Amber reveals how to make 2025 your best year yet

    EXCLUSIVE The host of the the UK’s number-one podcast for self-improvement shares her top tips for make your goals for the year ahead work for you

  • OOO? No, just negotiating nap time with a toddler. How working parents are setting boundaries with creative auto-responder emails.

    As the holidays approach, some working parents are drawing boundaries with creative OOO messages.

  • The men’s Test cricket team of the year: from Atkinson to Jaiswal

    Our special board of selectors announce the picks for the best men’s Test XI of the past 12 months

  • Sensual surrealism, Kiefer’s delights and Gehry’s Guggenheim: the best art and architecture shows to visit in 2025

    Anselm Kiefer’s homage to Van Gogh, Ithell Colquhoun’s seaside of surrealism and Gilbert & George fill the galleries, while the V&A opens its archives at the illustrious new East Storehouse

  • Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse review – Holocaust secrets unearthed

    Based on a massacre in an Austrian town at the end of the second world war, this thoughtful novel confronts the long shadow of Nazism

  • End-of-year sales are here: Score discounts at Amazon, Walmart, Target and more

    Did Santa forget to put something under your tree? Scoop up savings on Apple, Dyson, Kate Spade, KitchenAid and more.

  • Ancient martyrs, fighting rules and disappearing cats – take the Boxing Day Thursday quiz

    Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday, even on Boxing Day. How will you fare?

  • 2025 auto industry outlook: How to play auto market in new year

    Electric vehicles and trucks will be the focus of the US auto market in 2025, iSeeCars.com executive analyst Karl Brauer tells Brad Smith and Josh Lipton on Market Domination. The analyst takes a closer look at what to expect from the auto market in 2025 and what it means for investors. The EV market is expected to be challenged in the new year with President-elect Trump returning to the White House and ongoing slow consumer demand. "A lot of these companies are starting to already shift their EV product kind of into [a back-up] plan and moving forward with more internal combustion and hybrid vehicles, which is, I think, smart," Brauer says. The analyst highlights Toyota (TM) as a standout automaker in the hybrid space. Another challenge for the electric transition is that the US is "a truck country," Brauer says, adding, "It's going to be tough to ever really kill those truck sales [since] there's just so many uses for them here both commercially and privately." He says that Ram hybrid truck offerings, made by Stellantis (STLA), are "brilliant" since they provide consumers with an electrified truck option while easing range anxiety with an internal combustion engine. He adds, "We're going to watch how quickly the other full-sized truck makers, GM (GM) and Ford (F), struggle to catch up." To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination here. This post was written by Naomi Buchanan.

  • Investing in AI: Why it's not to late to put money to work

    Listen and subscribe to Stocks In Translation on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you find your favorite podcast. In this episode of Stocks In Translation, Yahoo Finance markets and data editor Jared Blikre and producer Sydnee Fried welcome Callie Cox, the Chief Market Strategist at Ritholtz Wealth Management, to discuss investing in AI. If you're looking to identify companies poised to benefit from the AI revolution as it gradually integrates into the economy, Cox says “this year was all about the picks and shovels” and Nvidia (NVDA) is best example of that. Although, Nvidia isn't directly rolling out products like ChatGPT, it supplies the essential chips for neural networks and machine learning. “So the companies that are tangential to AI, products that we got excited about in 2022, are really the companies that did well this year,” Cox says. She also advises investors to be patient, reminding them that "the story is still early." Twice a week, Stocks In Translation cuts through the market mayhem, noisy numbers and hyperbole to give you the information you need to make the right trade for your portfolio. You can find more episodes here, or watch on your favorite streaming service. This post was written by Shelby Boamah.

  • NI tourism sector braced for hit as full rollout of visa waiver scheme looms

    The industry is concerned that international tour operators will omit the region from all-island itineraries if they have to apply for the new ETAs.

  • 21 States To Raise Minimum Wage For 2025

    Successful ballot initiatives and statehouse bills are driving a record number of minimum wage increases this coming year.

  • Exclusive: KKR and Bain each bid more than $5 billion for Seven & i assets, sources say

    TOKYO (Reuters) -Private equity firms KKR and Bain Capital each offered more than $5 billion in first-round bids for the non-core assets of Japan's Seven & i Holdings, according to people familiar with the matter. KKR offered around 800 billion yen ($5.1 billion) for York Holdings, an entity due to be spun out of the Japanese retailer, two of the people said. Rival U.S. firm Bain offered around 1.2 trillion yen, one person said.