At 7 a.m. Eastern Time today, the price of oil sits at $108.34 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s an increase of $1.77 since yesterday morning and roughly $40 more than at this time last year. oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $106.57
The U.S. has ambitious plans to triple the capacity of its nuclear power plants by 2050, but that goal might hit a roadblock if plant operators can’t buy fuel at reasonable prices. Prices for yellowcake, a form of unrefined uranium, are up 75% in the last five years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appeared in person at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where he is due to be tried for alleged crimes against humanity. He is facing charges over his bloody war on drugs, which saw tens of thousands of small-time drug dealers allegedly executed summarily. The 81-year-old wore a
The second re-imagining of “Bad Lieutenant” — Abel Ferrara’s 1992 neo-noir starring Harvey Keitel — Takashi Miike’s baffling “Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo” borrows the broad strokes of the original, but tells its own Yakuza-centric story that never fully gets going. Its stop-start approach sees numerous characters and subplots introduced before existing ones can be resolved, or
Number 10 marks a turning point in my rankings, I am very fond of all remaining grounds and found them quite difficult to rank. New Road is an excellent ground, especially well suited to women’s domestic cricket with a slightly smaller capacity to most of the grounds that make their way into into my top
You’ve just set down your Xbox controller after wiping out the final boss. Now, time for an ad! The folks at Patentlyze made me aware of a recent patent filing from Microsoft that hints at Xbox’s in-game advertising ambitions. The filing, published earlier this month, outlines a concept for a content management system that would
