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Saudi Insurance Stocks See Huge Gains With End of Female Driver Ban
Saudi insurers posted significant gains on Sunday, on hopes that insurance volumes will rise as women began driving in Saudi Arabia, in the end of the world's last ban on female drivers. This lifted ...
Put Down the Video Games: WHO Declares Compulsive Playing as Mental Health Condition
Obsessive video gamers know how to anticipate dangers in virtual worlds. The World Health Organization says they now should be on guard for a danger in the real world: spending too much time playing. ...
The Next Tobacco? Climate Litigation Threat Growing: Opinion
Last month, a group of 10 families filed an action against the European Union at the European General Court, the EU's second highest court. All claim to have suffered loss from climate change. ...
How Do You Count Deaths From a Hurricane?
How many people died in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria? It's a question that has been debated since the powerful storm slammed into the island and devastated the U.S. territory last year. It's also ...
Fracking Doesn’t Impact Groundwater: Studies
New research suggests drinking water supplies in Pennsylvania have shown resilience in the face of a drilling boom that has turned swaths of countryside into a major production zone for natural gas. ...
Lessons From the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Open Models, Real-Time Tracking Are Valuable Tools
Open models and tools to track hurricanes in real time can help boost modeling accuracy and aid the claims process after storms, according to a new Karen Clark & Co. analysis of the 2017 Atlantic ...
South Africa’s Liberty Holdings Says No Evidence of Insurance Customers Losses After Cyber Attack
South African insurer Liberty Holdings said on Sunday it had become the victim of a cyber attack after an external party claimed to have seized data from the firm and demanded payment. Liberty, in ...
Global Warming Set To Surpass Paris Agreement Cap of 1.5°C by 2040: UN
Global warming is on course to exceed the most stringent goal set in the Paris agreement by around 2040, threatening economic growth, according to a draft report that is the U.N.'s starkest warning ...