The American financial services giant MSCI has long been a staple of investors’ portfolios. Many of the world’s largest money managers rely on MSCI’s equity, fixed income, and real estate indexes, as well as its analytics tools, and its ESG ratings, to operate each day. That favored position has made the company a powerhouse of […]
Think of a kamikaze pilot and the image that comes to mind is probably a screaming face obscured by goggles embarking on a death plunge. Or perhaps no face at all and just a fighter plane plowing into a warship. It’s probably not a teenager weeping in a dank, half-underground bunker with his bedsheets pulled […]
A shelter feared Precious the cat wouldn’t survive — but a man was waiting “patiently” for her to get better. Now, the man is starting a new chapter as the cat’s owner, according to the Lenoir County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in North Carolina. “Stories like these melt our hearts […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli-French woman who was among scores of people taken hostage by Hamas militants has described how she feared being raped by the gunman who watched over her around the clock in the home where he lived with his wife and children in Gaza. Mia Schem, 21, was released in late November […]
More than 60 migrants are believed to have drowned in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Citing survivors, the UN agency said on Saturday the vessel left the city of Zuwara with around 86 people on board. It said high waves swamped the boat and that 61 […]