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Employers are worried that the 5.2% minimum pay increase will fire up inflation and higher interest rates, and maybe fuel a recession. Are they unnecessarily worrying?

Drinking fountains have faced a challenge from bottled water, but they seem to be making a comeback. By the way, we throw away over 60 million PET water bottles every day in the U.S. alone.

DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia: The white walls of the innovation lab at Ithra were once again illuminated as it served as a physical backdrop to the digital blank canvas that will bring to life some of the most ambitious projects to date. The new cohort of Creative Solutions kicked off on June 2, where selected cohorts gathered to team up and be introduced to the program.

Vocalist and composer Jimmie Herrod, a Tacoma native and a graduate of PSU’s Master of Music in Jazz Studies, has put the School of Music & Theater on the map with his jaw-dropping appearances as a finalist on the 2021 season of “America’s Got Talent.” A member of the highly successful Pink Martini, Herrod has...

The council area of Brimbank in Melbourne’s west has had the highest number of COVID deaths in Victoria in the first four months of the year, more than its death toll for all of 2021.

You know Labor is fair dinkum determined to win the election at all costs when it ditches the tax reform agenda that saw Bill Shorten crash and burn in the 2019 poll. But who will it tax now?

It’s Budget leak-time and the big headline is fuel, which could be slashed by up to 20 cents a litre.

- The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture's Creative Solutions initiative highlights immersive digital technologies developed with UK tech experts - Ithra's $100,000 program spotlights

- 231 groups entered the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture's Creative Solutions initiative launched under the theme Digital Immersive Content Creation- Five projects selected for global

The program is designed to boost Saudi Arabia’s creative economy by empowering digital content creation in immersive technologies, and drew 231 applications.