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The global provider of secure financial messaging services, SWIFT, is testing to interlink multiple domestic-based emerging CBDC networks for cross-border transactions. The Belgium-based network, which enables financial institutions to communicate with each other for global payments, has tapped the French information technology services and consulting company Capgemini for the move.…

Happy Bitcoin Pizza Day! Before you dial for a Margherita to commemorate the world’s first real-world Bitcoin transaction, here’s a slice of trivia: What do a family holiday to Japan, a 50 Cent album, a steak dinner, and a framed cat photo all have in common?  They were all paid…

Bevan Read/Stuff Andrejus Alfiorovas arrived in New Zealand from Iceland in 2018 to take up the signwriting job. A signwriter who immigrated to New Zealand for a job he was offered has been awarded $34,000 in compensation for five months unpaid work and an unjustified dismissal. A recent Employment Relations…

Gabriel Slonina is just 18 years old, and could have waited to make a decision on his international future in the midst of increased interest from the Polish national team, but the American goalkeeping sensation decided his mind was already made up and there was no point delaying the decision…

Republican Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin will release a Senate advertisement Friday that features his daughter and his son and focuses on the issue of men playing in women’s and girl’s sports. The Daily Caller first obtained a copy of the advertisement. Mullin is a former MMA fighter and the father…

Rwanda's Mukansanga is a nurse, France's Frappart has won the World's Best Woman Referee three times already, and there's more to know about these 'women leaders'. For the first time in the history of the men's FIFA World Cup, female officials will referee matches. Three women: Stephanie Frappart of France,…

Modern screens might not need saving, but it's still fun to watch The first time a PC seemed magical to me was when it dozed off and colourful lines twisted across its screen. I'd launch Windows 3.1 just to watch screensavers, marvelling at Mystify and staring at Starfield. How wonderful…

Blue Fox Entertainment has bought the U.S. rights to StudioCanal’s Waiting for Bojangles, the critically-acclaimed French-language romance directed by Régis Roinsard, which stars Romain Duris, Virginie Efira and Grégory Gadebois. The film was released in France in January and has earned $4.4 million to date. A StudioCanal, Curiosa Films and…

What Is Fair Market Value? How Much a Home Is Really Worth In real estate, an arm’s length transaction is when the buyer and seller each act in their own self-interest to try to get the best deal they can. In most sales, a seller is trying to make a…

Plants — they’re just like us, with unique techniques for handling stress. To save one of the most important crops on Earth from extreme climate swings, scientists are mapping out plants’ own stress-busting strategies. A UC Riverside-led team has learned what happens to the roots of rice plants when they’re…