PARIS (AP) — Dire financial straits are leading droves of Olympic athletes to sell images of their bodies to subscribers on OnlyFans — known for sexually explicit content — to sustain their dreams of gold at the Games. As they struggle to make ends meet, a spotlight is being cast on an Olympics funding system
NEW YORK — Former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang was convicted Thursday in a financial conspiracy case that welled up from from his country’s “ tuna bond ” scandal and swept into a U.S. court. A federal jury in New York delivered the verdict. Chang was accused of accepting payoffs to put his African nation
Open this photo in gallery: Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer for Britain, speaks during an interview at the British Consulate in Toronto on Aug 7.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Britain’s Labour Party romped to victory last month over the incumbent Conservatives with a focus on economic growth and a promise of fiscal restraint aimed
ATLANTA — The federal government is making its first loan to a crystalline silicon solar plant, loaning $1.45 billion to support a South Korean company’s bid to build up key parts of the solar supply chain inside the United States. The loan from the U.S. Energy Department, announced Thursday, will be key to funding a
A German property developer has bought a former Nazi concentration camp that used tunnel slave labour, alarming historians and victims’ relatives. The owner of GPM Projekt 58 UG, a development company in Saxony that is said to specialise in “problem properties”, has agreed to pay €500,000 (£421,000) for the site after the previous owner went
Britain’s new finance minister, Rachel Reeves, will accuse the former Conservative government on Monday of committing to billions of pounds of spending that has not been properly budgeted for. Elected to run the world’s sixth-largest economy in a landslide victory on July 4, Labour has spent much of its first three weeks in power telling
Finance ministers from leading rich and developing nations have agreed to strive toward effectively taxing the super-rich By ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press July 26, 2024, 5:55 PM ET • 3 min read RIO DE JANEIRO — Finance ministers from leading rich and developing nations agreed Friday to strive toward effectively taxing the super-rich, a joint
Markets on Wall Street logged losses in early trading Wednesday as the tech sector was dragged down by some uninspiring earnings from high-profile companies. Futures for the S&P 500 slipped 0.9% before the bell and futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.5%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq tumbled 1.3%. Electric vehicle maker Tesla’s second-quarter net
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. government announced Thursday that $325 million in federal funds will be available for solar and battery storage installations across Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory struggles with chronic power outages. The program, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, will target community centers and healthcare facilities, as well
Open this photo in gallery: Author Gail Vaz-Oxlade in Toronto on Jan. 6, 2010.JENNIFER ROBERTS/The Globe and Mail Finance guru and Til Debt Do Us Part host Gail Vaz-Oxlade didn’t always know about money … because she didn’t have any. In 1977, the new immigrant faced big changes and challenges. In Canada, if she wanted