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How Game of Thrones reflects historical anxieties about women, motherhood and power

Jul 22, 2017 07:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Warning: This article contains spoilers about Game of Thrones series seven, episode 1. Game of Thrones is back and the female characters are at the forefront of the action. Sansa Stark is still struggling to control...

From Elizabeth I to high fashion, the tales behind Game of Thrones' costumes

Jul 18, 2017 14:10 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Game of Thrones, which returns today for its seventh season, offers fantasy, horror and intrigue, and, as Sarah Mower has put it, shines a light on our cynical, sophisticated, brutal, hopeless new Dark Ages. It is also...

'Chinks in the world machine' – on the casting of the 13th Doctor Who

Jul 18, 2017 10:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who dreamed of going into space. She would sit on the floor in the library, cross-legged on the carpet before a big shelf of books and read about a machine that could travel in...

Global hijabista style, from the Afghan burqa to the cover of a fashion magazine

Jul 12, 2017 19:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

July 12 is National Hijab Day in Iran, a celebration that has been met by defiant protests by women driving headscarfless in their cars. At the same time, the American glossy Allure has featured, for the first time, a...

Game of Thrones and the cut and thrust of warring women through the ages

Jul 12, 2017 18:46 pm UTC| Entertainment

Enemies to the east, enemies to the west, enemies to the south, enemies to the north. Whatever stands in our way, we will defeat it. So says Cersei Lannister to her brother Jamie, as she considers the various threats to...

A very British EU: how Europe has been portrayed by thriller writers

Jul 08, 2017 18:21 pm UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment

Over a year before the UKs fateful EU membership referendum, BBC Four broadcast The Great European Disaster Movie. This was an authored documentary by Italian journalist Annalisa Piras. Co-produced with several European...

The Mummy: what the West's obsession with ancient Egypt reveals

Jun 30, 2017 17:13 pm UTC| Entertainment

With another version of The Mummy menacing cinemas, the curse of the pharaohs is back. Again. Hollywoods determination to put marauding mummies in our sights suggests we still havent reached peak curse, almost a century...

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Economy

U.S. Treasuries gain on short-covering amid muted trading session

The U.S. Treasuries jumped in an uneventful day with no economic data of note due for release. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury, slumped 2-1/2 basis points to 2.24 percent, the super-long 30-year bond yields...

UK gilts tad higher in silent trading; investors eye Q2 GDP next week

The UK gilts traded tad higher Friday ahead of the countrys Q2 gross domestic product (GDP), scheduled for release early next week amid a silent trading session that witnessed data of little economic significance. The...

FxWirePro: Recession in US still far-fetched idea

There are many indicators like PMI reports, jobs reports, inflation, industrial output, business sales etc. that we take a look into in determining whether the US economy is slowing down and heading for a recession but...

Eurozone periphery bonds jump ahead of benchmark German manufacturing PMI

The Eurozone periphery bonds jumped as investors wait to watch the benchmark Germanys manufacturing PMI, scheduled for release early next week. The benchmark German 10-year bond yields, which moves inversely to its...

Bank Indonesia unlikely to change current monetary policy stance thorough 2017, says ANZ Research

Bank Indonesia (BI) is expected not to change its current monetary policy stance through 2017 and is keen to preserve the on-going stability in the bond and FX markets. The central banks decision to remain on hold in its...

Politics

Law expert: where the Brexit battles over the Repeal Bill will be fought in parliament

The most important national law governing the Brexit process has been tabled before parliament by the UK government. The proposed European Union (Withdrawal) Bill previously known as the Great Repeal Bill is likely to...

Modi's polarising populism makes a fiction of a secular, democratic India

After Donald Trump was sworn in as US president, The Times of India published a piece titled Why both Modi and Trump are textbook populists. Citing Jan-Werner Mllers What is Populism?, the journalist, Amit Varma, was...

Politicians jeopardise the safety of whistleblowers with bad technology

The Western Australian Liberal Party has created a website, www.wawhistleblowers.com, encouraging whistleblowers to report on WA public officers, government ministers and members of parliament. The site has already been...

Malawi set out to give students skills to support democracy. But it's not been easy

Like many other countries, Malawi was caught in the wave of democratic change that swept sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990s. The wave was triggered by the fall of communism along with military and civilian dictatorships...

US under Trump Series: Donald Trump Jr. may be called to testify before Senate over his meeting with Russian lawyer

President Trump eldest son Donald Trump Jr. might be called upon by the Senate Intelligence Committee to question about a meeting that took place in June 2016 at the Trump Tower between Trump Jr., President Trumps...

Science

Scientists Create Material 5x Stronger Than Steel And Soft As Rubber

Researchers in Japan recently succeeded in creating a soft and flexible material that is five times stronger than steel but feels like rubber. Such a material could have numerous applications including the development of...

Scientists Create Super Spinach That Can Function As Bomb Detector

For the most part, the leafy green spinach has only ever been super in the animated classic Popeye the Sailor Man when the quirky main character would down a whole can of the leaves to gain strength. Recently, scientists...

The Most Advanced Artificial Heart Can Perform As Well As A Real One

Scientists have been trying to create artificial versions of human organs for decades, be it the liver, skin, eyes, and above all, the heart. These efforts are aimed at solving one of the biggest challenges in the medical...

93% Of Patients Prefer Medical Marijuana To Opioids, Study Says

For years, medical marijuana was the only means of people to legally acquire a batch of cannabinoids. It was used by folks who suffered from actual medical problems and those who just preferred to get high alike. In a...

Google Subsidiary Wants To Eliminate Zika Virus By Releasing 20 Million Mosquitos

Fighting fire with fire is a phrase that many have used over the years to indicate the intent to answer aggression with the same. A Google subsidiary called Verily is taking the concept a step further with its goal of...

Technology

Musk Announced New York To D.C. Hyperloop Given The Go-Ahead

In case there was any doubt that Elon Musk can do the impossible, the Tesla boss recently announced via Twitter that he received a verbal green light regarding plans to create a Hyperloop connection from New York to...

Nintendo N64 Classic Could Be Coming, Trademark Filings Indicate

The SNES Classic isnt even out yet and already, there are indications that Nintendo could be producing N64 Classics down the road. This is what publications are interpreting from trademark filings that the company recently...

Crash Bandicoot: N.Sane Trilogy Is Offering A Free Previously Unreleased Level, Limited Time Offer

The Crash Bandicoot franchise has been around for a long time but it seems the original games still had content that players never got to try. One previously unreleased level is actually on offer right now for free, but...

It Could Fail, Elon Musk Dampens Expectations Regarding Falcon Heavy Launch

SpaceX is set to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket, the much bigger brother to the Falcon 9 soon, but the companys CEO is already trying to dampen expectations. According to Elon Musk himself, the launch could end up as a...

YouTube Finally Gets Serious About ISIS Recruitment On The Platform, It’s About Time

While it might sound odd that YouTube, one of the biggest and most influential video sharing platforms in the world has not exactly stamped out ISIS recruitment videos yet, this is exactly the case. Somehow, there are...

Digital Currency

FxWirePro: ETH/USD forms Dragonfly Doji pattern, bias neutral

Change Healthcare joins Hashed Health blockchain consortium

NRI Secure announces Blockchain Assessment service

Law

We need more than just laws to ensure responsible alcohol service

Australia's planned decryption law would weaken cybersecurity

We're close to banning nuclear weapons - killer robots must be next

Life

Why the Catholic Church bans gluten-free communion wafers

Hinduism and its complicated history with cows (and people who eat them)

How loneliness in older people makes them more vulnerable to financial scammers

Nature

Rising sea temperatures will hit fisheries and communities in poor countries the hardest

Africa’s tropical forests could be next in line as global food demand grows

How we discovered that brain connections shape memories

Sports

Women cricketers hit sixes too

When Bosnia was torn apart, football clubs were ethnically cleansed along with the population

Channel 4 has a real opportunity to up the profile of women's football in its UEFA coverage

Technical Analysis

FxWirePro: USD/JPY pauses decline, downside risk remains

FxWirePro: USD/CAD outlook weaker on renewed downside pressure

S&P500 breaks minor trend line support, dip till 2435 likely

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CANADA'S S&P/TSX COMPOSITE CLOSED AT 15,180.72, DOWN -0.55%

BRAZIL'S BOVESPA CLOSED AT 64,610.07, DOWN -0.51%

NASDAQ UNOFFICIALLY CLOSES DOWN 3.94 POINTS, OR 0.06 PERCENT, AT 6,386.06

S&P 500 UNOFFICIALLY CLOSES DOWN 1.23 POINTS, OR 0.05 PERCENT, AT 2,472.22

DOW JONES UNOFFICIALLY CLOSES DOWN 33.25 POINTS, OR 0.15 PERCENT, AT 21,578.53

CFTC-SPECULATORS INCREASE CBOT US 5-YEAR TREASURY FUTURES NET SHORT POSITION BY 6,731 CONTRACTS TO 282,325 IN WEEK ON JULY 18

CFTC-SPECULATORS RAISE CBOT US 10-YEAR TREASURY FUTURES NET LONG POSITION BY 25,302 CONTRACTS TO 282,329 IN WEEK ON JULY 18

CFTC-SPECULATORS INCREASE CBOT US 2-YEAR TREASURY FUTURES NET SHORT POSITION BY 17,400 CONTRACTS TO 274,213 IN WEEK ON JULY 18

CFTC-SPECULATORS INCREASE CBOT US ULTRABOND TREASURY FUTURES NET SHORT POSITION BY 7,736 CONTRACTS TO 63,676 IN WEEK ON JULY 18

CFTC-SPECULATORS RAISE CBOT US TREASURY BONDS FUTURES NET LONG POSITION BY 1,018 CONTRACTS TO 51,450 IN WEEK ON JULY 18

QATAR EMIR DENOUNCES CLOSURE OF JERUSALEM'S AL-AQSA MOSQUE, EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

QATAR EMIR SAYS QATARIS ARE CALLED UPON TO OPEN ECONOMY FOR INVESTMENTS

QATAR EMIR SAYS TIME TO RESOLVE DIFFERENCES THROUGH NEGOTIATIONS

QATAR EMIR SAYS QATAR FIGHTING TERRORISM NOT BECAUSE IT WANTS TO PLEASE OTHERS BUT BECAUSE IT BELIEVES IN THAT

QATAR EMIR SAYS IT IS CLEAR THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST QATAR HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY PLANNED

QATAR'S EMIR SAYS HAVE DIFFERENCES WITH SOME NEIGHBOURS, BUT WE ARE NOT TRYING TO IMPOSE OUR VIEWS ON OTHERS

BRENT CRUDE FUTURES SETTLE AT $48.06/BBL, DOWN $1.24, 2.52 PCT

U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY JIM MATTIS SAYS ASSUMES ISLAMIC STATE LEADER BAGHDADI IS ALIVE

EURO EXTENDS GAINS VS U.S. DOLLAR, HITS NEARLY TWO-YEAR HIGH OF $1.1682

U.S. DOLLAR INDEX EXTENDS LOSSES, HITS MORE THAN 1-YEAR LOW OF 93.942

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