money How to play into the golf boom this summer
Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi shares his thoughts on what's to expect from the golf industry this summer.
Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi shares his thoughts on what's to expect from the golf industry this summer.
It's late morning and steam is rising from water tanks atop the colourful but opaque-windowed "soapland" sex parlours in a historic Tokyo red-light district.Beniko's photos, taken in Tokyo but also in other Japanese red-light districts, focus mainly on the buildings and rooms used that are usually hidden from view.
U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee, called the Justice Department's position irrational.
Police in Japan said Friday that they had arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a YouTuber while she was livestreaming on a downtown Tokyo street. Tokyo metropolitan police said they had arrested Kenji Takano, 42, on the spot on suspicion of attempted murder Tuesday. The victim, Airi Sato, 22, was rushed to a hospital with critical injuries after the attacker stabbed her repeatedly in her upper body, police said, and was later pronounced dead.
Authorities confirmed an arson investigation at the Madison, New Jersey, home of an executive of global pharma giant Bayer.
An American influencer who outraged Australians by snatching a baby wombat from its apparently distressed mother flew out of the country Friday, the government said."To take a baby wombat from its mother, and clearly causing distress from the mother, is just an outrage," he told reporters Thursday.
An American Airlines jet caught fire Thursday after landing at Denver International Airport in Colorado, dramatic images on social media showed."The 172 customers and six crew members deplaned and are being relocated to the terminal," American Airlines said, in a statement published by Denver broadcaster KDVR. Neither the FAA, the airline nor Denver International Airport responded immediately to AFP requests for comment.
The criticism amounts to what could be an early skirmish in the next Democratic presidential primary.
Nepali police officer Jiwan Subba still feels pangs of regret decades after he bludgeoned a strange creature he found wandering in his barn, not realising it was an endangered red panda.Red panda hides are mainly smuggled to China and Myanmar for their supposed medicinal qualities and aesthetic value, according to police.
A second federal judge ruled Thursday that thousands of probationary employees laid off en masse by the Trump administration must be temporarily reinstated to their jobs.
Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer's use of artificial intelligence in trading markets has spurred an AI arms race among mainland asset managers that could shake up the country's $10 trillion fund management industry. Quant fund High-Flyer not only deployed AI in its multi-billion dollar portfolio, it also built China's most notable AI start-up DeepSeek whose cost-effective large language model stunned Silicon Valley and undermined Western dominance of the AI sector. In its wake, aspiring Chinese hedge fund managers such as Baiont Quant, Wizard Quant and Mingshi Investment Management are stepping up AI research, while dozens of mutual fund companies are rushing to incorporate DeepSeek into their investment workflow.
China is hosting diplomats from Iran and Russia for talks on Iran’s nuclear program Friday as Beijing aims to position itself as a power broker on an issue seen internationally as a pressing security concern.
Asian investors fought Friday to grind out gains at the end of a painful week for markets as they welcomed signs US lawmakers will avert a government shutdown but remained fearful over Donald Trump's trade war.However, Asian markets enjoyed a broadly positive Friday amid hopes Congress will pass a bill to avert a painful government shutdown.
A federal grand jury indicted six Colombian nationals for operating a narco-submarine fleet to bring 5,000 kilograms of cocaine to the U.S.
Trump’s plans for the future of Gaza were further shrouded in confusion on Wednesday when he told reporters that “nobody is expelling any Palestinians” from the enclave – an apparent climbdown from his previous proclamations that its population should be relocated.
Nearly 100 people were arrested after protesters gathered at Trump Tower in Manhattan Thursday to denounce the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist detained by ICE over his involvement with pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University.
Minutes after former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte was bundled onto a plane bound for The Hague to face a charge of crimes against humanity, President Ferdinand Marcos said of the arrest: "Politics doesn't enter into it."Those elected will hold the deciding votes in the trial of the vice president, impeached last month on charges of graft, corruption and an alleged plot to assassinate her former running mate Marcos.
Two Japanese tourists in their 20s were detained for two weeks in China then deported for taking photos showing exposed buttocks at the Great Wall, local media reported.Tokyo's foreign ministry said Friday that "the Embassy of Japan in China confirmed on January 3 that two Japanese nationals were detained by local authorities at the Great Wall."
Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the United States-brokered proposal for a ceasefire in the Ukraine war on Thursday, setting forth tough conditions and demanding concessions from Kyiv despite saying he supported the proposal in theory.
Before answering an attendee's question about President Donald Trump's “destructive and disastrous trade war,” U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards made a plea to the rowdy crowd at his Thursday town hall in Asheville, North Carolina. “Let me answer and then if you don't like it, you can boo or hiss or whatever you'd like to do,” Edwards said, visibly exhausted. As he expanded on Trump's use of tariffs as a negotiating tactic, it took less than a minute for the crowd to break out in outrage.
More than a million people have fled Myanmar's brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighbouring Thailand, where experts say nationalists are using disinformation to fuel prejudice against them.Since Myanmar was plunged into civil war by a military coup in 2021, millions more have been displaced.