The US government’s move to greenlight a 300-mile natural gas pipeline as part of legislation to stave off a Treasury default shocked just about everyone, except for a mystery trader who somehow appears to have seen it coming.
China is Southeast Asia’s leading development financier, but is facing rising competition for regional sway, according to Lowy Institute research.
A French drug developer’s experimental therapy slowed the progression of a type of brain cancer by more than 16 months on average, results that could lead to one of the first targeted therapies for the most common form of the tumor in adults younger than age 50.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.’s leading cancer treatment fought a serious blood cancer better than Seagen Inc.’s in a study, raising questions about the biotech’s portfolio just weeks after Pfizer Inc. agreed to buy it.
Iran is continuing to lie to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the agency’s “capitulation” to Iranian pressure is a “black stain” on its conduct, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.
The United Nations is in the process of defining global carbon markets for decades to come, and it could make or break the fledging carbon removal industry.
India said its deadliest rail accident in nearly three decades was due to a fault in an electronic signaling system, as the focus turned from recovering victims to restoring train operations.
A blockbuster lung cancer drug from AstraZeneca Plc was found to improve survival by more than half in a subset of patients, boosting the company’s ambitions to widen its oncology portfolio across as many groups and indications as possible.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan named Mehmet Simsek as treasury and finance minister, the most prominent appointment in a renewed cabinet that will face the challenge of restoring investor confidence after elections.
India’s salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group signed an agreement with the Gujarat state government to set up a giga-factory for manufacturing lithium-ion cells, with an estimated initial investment of around 130 billion rupees ($1.6 billion).
