The jump, which was at the fastest pace since January 2020, exceeded a median market forecast for a 0.5% increase and followed a 0.6% fall in February.
A rushed cull of Denmark's minks over concerns about a coronavirus mutation has left the country facing a new horror, as cadavers of the animals re-emerge from the earth.
Brent crude LCOc1 futures rose 34 cents, or 0.6%, to $55.27 a barrel by 0250, but were heading for a fifth weekly loss amid lingering fears over the impact of the virus.
KABUL/WASHINGTON: Prospects have risen for negotiations between the Taliban and the United States after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called a ceasefire and allowed militants...
LONDON: Oil prices rose more than 3 percent on Wednesday, hitting 3-1/2-year highs after U.S. President Trump abandoned a nuclear deal with Iran and...
WASHINGTON: The number of sexual assaults reported in the US military increased last year by 10 percent, Pentagon officials said Monday, attributing the spike...
Mass shootings at US schools are rising rapidly, killing more people in the last 18 years than in the entire 20th century, said a study which excluded gang shootings and any shootings that occurred at universities.
TEHRAN: A senior Iranian cleric called during Friday prayers for Palestinians to “rage” against Israel after US President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem as the...
PARIS: Two books about the Nazis took France's biggest literary prizes on Monday, with Eric Vuillard's story of how German industry and finance backed...
WASHINGTON: Levels of glyphosate, a controversial chemical found in herbicides, markedly increased in the bodies of a sample population over two decades, a study...