SYDNEY / NEW YORK (Reuters) – Asian stocks hovered near four-month highs on Thursday in hopes of a vaccine for COVID-19, while copper prices jumped to a more than six-month spike due to a better global perspective and supply fears in the main producer Chile. FILE PHOTO: An SGX sign …

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and several other top Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday warning of dire consequences for Israel if it continues its plan to annex part of the disputed West Bank, and the document promotes support from organizations that have …

A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft lands after a test flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, USA, June 29, 2020. Karen Ducey | Reuters The Federal Aviation Administration and Boeing have completed certification test flights on the 737 MAX, a key milestone for the plane’s return to service, the US …

A California man who contracted the coronavirus after attending a party posted a disturbing warning on Facebook the day before his death. Tommy Macías, 51, began showing symptoms a week after attending a party in early June at Lake Elsinore, about 70 miles outside of Los Angeles, NBC News reported. …

Chemical intuition tells us that pressure tends to increase the coordination number and therefore generally creates an ordered structure that is especially true for perovskite-like compounds. However, in the recently discovered Y2CoIrO6, a double perovskite compound type A2B’B”O6, the researchers found an exceptional order of the B site induced by …