Spencer Platt | Getty Images Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday morning on Feb. 9, 2018 in New York City. The PowerShares QQQ Trust (QQQ), which tracks the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index, dropped 1.4 percent, breaking below its 50-day moving average, a key technical level. « Up until last week,…

OK, let’s get a few things straight: A revolution is not happening in college basketball. Nor is what is happening in this NCAA tournament unprecedented. We’ve had crazier tournaments. What isn’t crazy is The Bilastrator’s order of the 16 remaining teams.

Facebook-Chef Mark Zuckerberg hat in dem Skandal um mutmaßlichen Datenmissbrauch zwar Fehler eingeräumt – sein Unternehmen gerät dennoch immer stärker in die Defensive. Justiz- und Verbraucherschutzministerin Katarina Barley (SPD) kündigte an, Vertreter des Unternehmens in ihr Ministerium zu laden, um eine Erklärung zu erzwingen. Die EU-Justizkommissarion Vera Jourová warnte angesichts des Datenskandals gar davor, die…

Theresa May Leon Neal / Getty Theresa May will today urge EU countries to do more to stand up to Russia. She will address the EU Council in Brussels as she seeks multilateral retaliation for the poisoning of Sergei Skripal. A senior UK government source says the EU must now see Russia as a « strategic…

Britain is set to get a new royal as Princess Elisabeth gets ready to move to a prestigious school in Wales this September. The Duchess of Brabant will start at Atlantic College in St Donat’s, Vale of Glamorgan – moving from a school in Brussels where she has already learnt multiple languages. The 16-year-old, who…

PFLUGERVILLE, Texas (AP) — A 25-minute cellphone video left behind by the bomber whose deadly explosives terrorized Austin for weeks details the differences among the weapons he built and amounts to a confession, police said. But his motive remains a mystery. Mark Anthony Conditt, an unemployed college dropout who bought bomb-making materials at Home Depot,…

Updated March 22, 2018 21:33:01 Photo: George Pell, in 2002, when he was archbishop of Sydney. (Mark Baker, file photo: Reuters) A former choir member has told a court he does not believe Cardinal George Pell could have sexually offended against choristers at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s Cathedral « knowing the layout and how things worked ». Rodney…