This day marked the 50th anniversary of a momentous phone call

This day marked the 50th anniversary of a momentous phone call

On April 3, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper was standing in a street of New York when he made the first ever call on a true mobile phone, calling his chief rival at Bell Labs, Joel Engel, presumably to gloat....
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‘Dr. Doom’: Most US banks are “technically near insolvency,” with hundreds already “fully insolvent.”

‘Dr. Doom’: Most US banks are “technically near insolvency,” with hundreds already “fully insolvent.”

Renowned economist Nouriel Roubini, who predicted the global financial crisis of 2008 caused by fraudulent MBS, has issued a grim assessment of US banking sector’s status. In an opinion piece for Project Syndicate, Roubini, nicknamed ‘Dr. Doom’ by Wa...
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Ukraine claims it has assembled manpower for new offensive

Ukraine claims it has assembled manpower for new offensive

Interior Minister Igor Klimenko: Eight new brigades have been assembled. Kiev has completed the recruitment of its so-called “Attack Guard,” which has been assembled with the aim of retaking territories lost to Russia during the ongoing conflict, Ukraini...
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