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At the heart of a nearly US$11 billion takeover tussle for the owner of several Australian coal-fired power plants is a key question for investors: how to value a major polluter that could also become a big enabler of the

U.S. life expectancy rose last year. Now we’re only 20 years behind what we were before COVID.

A CDC analysis of 2022 data finds that U.S. life expectancy is improving after being knocked backwards during the COVID emergency. But it’s still lower than it was pre-pandemic. (Image credit: emholk/Getty Images)

Older men are at highest risk, while suicide rates among young people have declined.

Rescuers freed the 41 construction workers sealed inside a mountain tunnel in northern India by a landslide for over two weeks.

Died: Charlie Munger, 99, business partner of Buffett.

Ukraine said the wife of one of its top military leaders was poisoned, raising suspicion in Kyiv that she was the victim of an assassination attempt.

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