U.S. manufacturing activity slowed last month and construction spending rose less than expected in April, which could temper hopes of a sharp pick-up in economic growth this quarter.The Institute for Supply Management on Monday said its index of national factory activity fell to 53.2 in May Continue Reading
Month: June 2014
Google services are being disrupted in China ahead of this week’s 25th anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, a censorship watchdog said on Monday.GreatFire.org said in a blog post that the government appeared to have Continue Reading
American rock star Steven Tyler took over a street musician’s self-made instrument consisting of water filled wine bottles to play in the streets of Helsinki on Saturday, performing Aerosmith’s 1973 hit “Dream On.”Tyler played a glass-bottle xylophone, a concoction made Continue Reading
India’s new energy minister pulled an all-night work session to tackle power cuts caused by a dust storm in New Delhi on Friday and provide more electricity to Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest state that is suffering outages in sweltering summer heat.The power crunch is a test Continue Reading