Fears of a trade war between the US and China have cast a shadow over Wall Street and spurred the buying of gold as a safe haven. Investor Peter Schiff is convinced that gold is on the verge of a breakthrough.
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Soybean trade between China and the US, crucial for American agriculture, would become the first casualty in a trade war between the world’s biggest economies.
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Supported by Art & Design Women Say Richard Meier’s Conduct Was Widely Known Yet Went Unchecked Not long after she joined Richard Meier’s architecture firm in 1989, Karin Bruckner was working at the office one Sunday, she said, when Mr. Meier came up beside her at a copy machine and started rubbing his body up and down against hers.
“I just stood there and froze,” Ms. Bruckner said. “‘This is not happening’ — that’s the first thing you think about — ‘He’s not doing this right now, I’m sure he’s not doing this.’”
She later confided to John Eisler, a senior associate, about what had occurred, and Mr. Eisler was sympathetic.
“It’s not something that was a secret,” he said in a recent interview about Mr. Meier’s conduct. But Mr. Eisler, who spent 20 years at the firm, said he did not confront Mr. Meier after hearing from Ms. Bruckner.
“I am sorry,” he said, “that I did not.”
After a report last month by The New York Times detailing a pattern of sexual misconduct by Mr. Meier, more wom..
Supported by Learning An Expert’s View: Sir Ken Robinson Photo Sir Ken Robinson is a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education. Credit Ying Ang for The New York Times Our new Learning sections will feature a question-and-answer segment with an education expert. For our first installment, we’ve chosen Sir Ken Robinson, a best-selling author and longtime advocate of transforming education. His latest book, “You, Your Child, and School,” was published in March by Viking. The following interview was edited and condensed.
Your new book offers wide-ranging advice for parents as they try to manage their children’s education. If you had to choose one takeaway, what would it be?
Parents have more power and more choices than they may realize in educating their children. Many parents are worried about how the world is changing and the uncertain futures their children face. Parents are especially anxious about education. They worry that there’s too much testing and c..
Around 1,500 organisations failed to report figures before the deadline of midnight on Wednesday
Almost eight in 10 large UK companies and public sector bodies pay men more than women, the latest gender pay gap reporting has revealed.
After the deadline to publish passed at midnight on Wednesday, around 1,500 organisations with over 250 employees had yet to report.
More than 10,015 companies met the deadline, with 78 per cent of those revealing that they pay men more than women, on average.
Read more Gender pay gap latest: 1,500 firms fail to meet reporting deadline Of the remaining employers, 8 per cent claimed that they have no gender pay gap and 14 per cent reported one in favour of women.
More than 15 per cent of employers left it to the last minute, sending their information between Tuesday at 4pm and the cut-off point. A further 10 companies had submitted their figures after the deadline by 8am on Thursday.
Companies that fail to publish their mean and median gender pa..
India Is Close to Buying a Russian Missile System, Despite U.S. Sanctions Photo India is on the verge of buying five Russian-made S-400 Triumf surface-to-air missile systems like these. Credit Sergei Malgavko/Tass, via Getty Images NEW DELHI — India’s defense minister is visiting Moscow this week to finalize the purchase of a Russian missile defense system, Indian officials say, in a weapons deal that would violate American sanctions against Russia.
The potential $6 billion deal comes at a time when the Trump administration is both weighing more extensive sanctions against Russia and trying to forge a military alliance with India. Indian officials say the agreement could be finalized as soon as this week, with India purchasing five S-400 Triumf systems, an antiaircraft missile array that can also intercept missiles.
If the purchase goes through, the Trump administration would have to choose between punishing India for violating the sanctions or granting an exemption to avoid souring th..
The BBC has outraged Jeremy Corbyn supporters once again with their bizarre coverage of the Labour leader. This time they used footage of him playing with a Russian doll.
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It’s true that everyone’s definition of a good time varies, but one group of Russian friends managed to have fun in the oddest of ways – by sawing off a huge chunk of ice and sailing it down the river while sitting in a bath tub.
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How Do You Count Endangered Species? Look to the Stars
The conversation started over a fence dividing two backyards. On one side, an ecologist remarked that surveying animals is a pain. His neighbor, an astronomer, said he could see objects in space billions of light years away.
And so began an unusual partnership to adapt tools originally developed to detect stars in the sky to monitor animals on the ground.
The neighbors, Steven Longmore, the astronomer, and Serge Wich, the ecologist, both of Liverpool John Moores University in England, made their backyard banter a reality that may contribute to conservation and the fight against poaching.
The scientists developed a system of drones and special cameras that can record rare and endangered species on the ground, day or night. Computer-vision and machine-learning techniques that help researchers study the universe’s oldest and most distant galaxies can now be used to find animals in video footage.
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