World/International

Palm oil and wheat among them.

Oil prices neared $120 a barrel over the weekend. How are countries responding to the spike in prices?

Across universities and research centers, experts are studying how nuclear weapons, engineered pathogens, and artificial intelligence could reshape humanity’s future.

Diesel fuel powers trucks and trains, and a whole lot of the things we buy move by one if not both.

On today’s show: a look at gasoline and diesel prices following the outbreak of war in the Middle East.

Iranian-linked hackers have attacked U.S. banks before with widespread Distributed Denial of Service, or DDoS, attacks. Rafe Pilling, Director of Threat Intelligence at the cybersecurity firm Sophos, says banks are better prepared to fend those off as war in the Middle East intensifies.

Amazon Web Services confirmed that several of its data centers in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were damaged after drone strikes, disrupting service on several consumer apps in the region.

Amid global uncertainty, investors are parking their dollars.

Uncertainty and sudden conflict almost always make mortgage rates more volatile.

Even though most of what moves around the world travels by ocean freight, a growing volume of goods travels via plane, with about 13% of that air cargo passing through the Gulf.