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Turkmenistan just legalized crypto mining and exchanges this year, marking a sharp policy shift for one of the world’s most closed economies and fulfilling legislation that was accepted in November, 2025.  President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed the Law on Virtual Assets, bringing digital assets under civil law for the first time. The legislation creates a licensing regime for miners, exchanges, and custodial services overseen by the Central Bank of Turkmenistan. Cryptocurrencies will not yet be recognized as legal tender, currency, or securities. They cannot be used to pay for goods or services. The law defines virtual assets strictly as “property or…

Noor NanjiCulture correspondentBBCFormer Little Mix star Jesy Nelson has revealed that her twin baby daughters have been diagnosed with a rare genetic condition which means they will “probably never walk”.The singer gave birth to Ocean Jade and Story Monroe Nelson-Foster prematurely last May with musician Zion Foster.On Sunday, Nelson said in an Instagram video that the girls have Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), which she described as the “most severe muscular disease”.”It does affect every muscle in the body, down to legs, arms, breathing, swallowing,” she said.In the video, she explained that her daughters had not been showing as much movement…

NEW DELHI: World chess champion D Gukesh will not be playing in the 2026 Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata. The organisers confirmed the news on Friday. The tournament begins on January 7, and Gukesh will be replaced by fellow Indian grandmaster Nihal Sarin.This event was expected to be Gukesh’s first tournament of the new year. Fans were excited to see the reigning world champion play in India once again. GM Raunak Sadhwani Exclusive: Becoming Grandmaster at 13, hidden costs of the game, and more #chessHis absence means they will now have to wait longer to watch him in…

For more than two decades, the H-1B visa lottery served as a quiet stabiliser for the US technology economy. Its randomness was not flawless, but it still provided businesses with something they value very highly: Predictability. Corporations would be able to chart recruitment cycles, educational institutions could synchronize the graduation of their students, and worldwide engineers would be able to organize their professional development in a fairly predictable manner. Over time, this rhythm became embedded in how the tech ecosystem functioned.That equilibrium is now under strain. Beginning February 27, 2026, the US will replace the lottery-based allocation of H-1B visas…

As 2025 came to a close, subtle changes in Federal Reserve activity started to catch the attention of traders watching both macro markets and crypto. Unusual moves in short-term funding and a series of quiet policy adjustments suggested that liquidity pressures might be easing. For some observers, that raised the possibility that Bitcoin could start moving higher before traditional markets show clearer signs of recovery in 2026. A Tense Year-End in Short-Term Funding On December 31, 2025, banks drew a record $74.6 billion from the Federal Reserve’s Standing Repo Facility. That spike pointed to stress in short-term funding markets right…

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I wrote on the 28th December that the best trades for the week would be:Long of the S&P 500 Index. This gave a loss of 1.12%.Long of Silver with a quarter of the normal position size. This gave a loss of 2.72%.Long of Platinum a quarter of the normal position size. This gave a loss of 3.46%.Long of Gold with half the normal position size. This gave a loss of 2.32%.Long of Palladium with a quarter of the normal position size. This gave a loss of 4.62%.Overall, these trades gave a large loss of 14.24% (2.85% per asset), although this…

On Jan­u­ary 1, 1943, the Amer­i­can folk music leg­end Woody Guthrie jot­ted in his jour­nal a list of 33 “New Years Rulin’s.” Nowa­days, we’d call them New Year’s Res­o­lu­tions. Adorned by doo­dles, the list is down to earth by any mea­sure. Fam­i­ly, song, tak­ing a polit­i­cal stand, per­son­al hygiene—they’re the val­ues or aspi­ra­tions that top his list. You can click the image above to view the list in a larg­er for­mat. Below, we have pro­vid­ed a tran­script of Guthrie’s Rulin’s. 1. Work more and bet­ter2. Work by a sched­ule3. Wash teeth if any4. Shave5. Take bath6. Eat good — fruit —…

Warning: This story contains spoilers from Wicked, Wicked: For Good as well as the Broadway musical. The Yellow Brick Road is paved with changes. Those changes were all over when it came to adapting Wicked for the big screen, with part one hitting theaters in 2024 and its sequel Wicked: For Good being released in November 2025—and picking up seven Critics Choice Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Ariana Grande and Best Costume Design, among others. And both films took some liberties with their source material, the 2003 Broadway musical Wicked, itself an adaptation of Gregory Maguire’s…

For My Sunday Song #466, we are talking Adrenaline Mob’s killer track “Psychosane”. Adrenaline Mob was Mike Portnoy’s first project after leaving Dream Theatre. Also in the band were singer Russel Allen (Symphony X) and guitarist Mike Orlando who were the chief songwriters to the song as well. The song is from their 2013 debut album, ‘Omerta’, which went to #70 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The song was inspired by the movie ‘American Psycho’ where Christian Bale’s character would be acting totally sane and then a minute later would be totally unhinged cutting people up. The song appears…