Month: September 2021

Penn State University Suspends Students Who Failed to Get Weekly COVID-19 Test

At Penn State University, 117 students have been placed on interim suspension for failure to comply with the university’s weekly COVID-19 testing requirement. Students at University Park who are subject to required weekly COVID-19 testing and who have missed at least three weeks of testing have been notified by Penn State that they are out…


Tales of Wisdom: Lustful, Lazy Man’s One Good Thought Saves Village From Starving

Our “Tales of Wisdom” series aims to highlight important morals and inspire a cherishing of the age-old virtues that can uplift our souls and help us return to tradition. We hope you will enjoy reading this. At times, we reach a dead-end in life and accept things just the way they are. But traditional cultures…


Farmer Pays Tribute to Late Aunt by Herding Sheep Into Heart Shape

He came up with the best way possible to honor his aunt. Truly an act from the heart!


Canada Paused COVID 19 Vaccine Deliveries as Supply Far Exceeds Demand

OTTAWA—Further deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to Canada are on pause because provinces already have more doses than they can currently use. Canada was to get 95 million doses of vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna by the end of September, but is about 20 million doses shy of that as of Wednesday. But Canada is already…


Toronto Pearson ranks low among North American mega airports in J.D. Power survey

Toronto Pearson International Airport has ranked near the bottom among major North American flight hubs in J.D. Power’s latest customer satisfaction ranking. The 2021 study released Wednesday ranked Pearson second-lowest among the 20 airports in the ‘mega’ category, which see at least 33 million passengers per year. Michael Taylor, head of travel intelligence at J.D….


UK Foreign Secretary to Push for CPTPP Membership on Mexico Trip

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will visit Mexico on Thursday to seek its continued support for the UK to join a Trans-Pacific trade pack, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) said. The newly appointed foreign secretary is travelling from New York, where she represented the UK at the U.N. General Assembly along with Prime Minister Boris Johnson….


Salesforce Raises Full-Year Revenue Outlook on Hybrid Work Boost

Salesforce.com Inc. on Thursday raised its full-year revenue forecast, as the pandemic-led shift to hybrid work fueled demand for its cloud-based software. Shares of the company were up 2.4 percent at $265.4 in premarket trading. The business software maker’s revenue has gone from strength to strength over the past year, with the rise of automation…


Italy’s Enel Sets Up Digital Grid Service Company

MILAN—Italy’s biggest utility, Enel, has set up a new company to offer digital grid services to power distributors round the world to help upgrade networks as the energy transition gathers pace. Gridspertise will manage all activities related to digital meters and intelligent grid services to help its clients deal with the increasing amounts of power…


Bank of England Nudges up Inflation Outlook, Split Over QE Widens

LONDON—The Bank of England said inflation would rise above 4 percent later this year, and two policymakers called for an early end to the central bank’s quantitative easing programme due to rising price pressures. Policymakers voted 7–2 to stick with the 895 billion pound ($1.2 trillion) asset purchase target they set in November 2020, when…


Starmer Urges Labour Party to Stop ‘Squabbling’ Over Past

Keir Starmer has urged the Labour party to stop “squabbling over its own past,” saying “harmful and alienating” ideological contestation has made the party feel like “separate families living under one roof.” In an essay published ahead of Labour’s annual party conference in Brighton, Starmer called for unity and urged party factions to stop focusing…