来源：环球市场播报 比特币在经历上周短暂反弹后于周一走低，油价暴涨拖累亚洲股市，加密货币同步承压。 数据显示，截至发稿，比特币24小时内下跌1.87%，报66,010美元，较3月5日触及的近期高点73,500美元回落10%。此次回调使其价格回到此前短暂暴涨前的水平，与研究机构CryptoQuant此前分析一致——上周的价格走势更像是一次“缓解性反弹”，而非新一轮牛市的开端。 Zeus Resear...
Sheryl Sandberg — Sandberg is currently the co-founder of Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, which deploys private capital to fund innovation across consumer, enterprise, climate and healthcare technology. As former Chief Operating Officer of Meta and an early executive at Google, Sandberg brings unmatched experience in scaling the world's most influential technology companies, as well as deep ex...
Sheryl Sandberg — Sandberg is currently the co-founder of Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, which deploys private capital to fund innovation across consumer, enterprise, climate and healthcare technology. As former Chief Operating Officer of Meta and an early executive at Google, Sandberg brings unmatched experience in scaling the world's most influential technology companies, as well as deep expertise in operations, growth strategy, and building global organizations. Nscale also today welcomes three new Directors. Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker, and Nick Clegg will join the Nscale Board, bringing substantial global depth across technology, policy, operations, and governance to an already world-class collection of business leaders. "This is the fourth industrial revolution; the world is changing at a rapid pace. Over the next 5 years, Artificial Intelligence will be integrated into every industry, every product, and every job. Accelerating drug discovery, extending human life, autonomizing travel and robotics, lifting productivity, and driving massive growth. This is leading to the largest infrastructure buildout in human history," said Josh Payne, CEO and Founder of Nscale. "Nscale is leading this buildout. We are building this foundation that the market sits on, the engine of superintelligence." AI is reshaping industries, economies and national strategies, and accelerated computing platforms are the engine driving that shift. The constraint on market scaling is not demand, but the ability to deploy capacity and run it reliably in production. Nscale is purpose-built to accelerate AI deployments. This capital deepens Nscale's infrastructure footprint, expands its engineering and operations teams, and strengthens the platform, enabling Nscale to continue to deliver real, production-grade AI deployments at massive scale. LONDON, March 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- U.K.- based AI infrastructure hyperscaler Nscale today announced its $2 billion in Series C funding, led by A...
Israel continued its strikes in Lebanon, as it targeted Hezbollah. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands displaced. Hilal Khashan, Political Science Professor at the American University of Beirut spoke to Bloomberg’s Horizons Middle East and Africa anchor Joumanna Bercetche on the likely end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. (Source: Bloomberg)
Israel continued its strikes in Lebanon, as it targeted Hezbollah. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands displaced. Hilal Khashan, Political Science Professor at the American University of Beirut spoke to Bloomberg’s Horizons Middle East and Africa anchor Joumanna Bercetche on the likely end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. (Source: Bloomberg)
After the assassination of its supreme leader, Tehran has answered with a barrage of strikes, engulfing the Gulf in the conflict A U.S.-Israeli military operation that killed Iran’s supreme leader and about 40 senior Iranian officials has metastasized, drawing missile and drone attacks across the Middle East and narrowing any near-term path back to diplomacy. The Feb. 28 strike on a heavily guarde...
After the assassination of its supreme leader, Tehran has answered with a barrage of strikes, engulfing the Gulf in the conflict A U.S.-Israeli military operation that killed Iran’s supreme leader and about 40 senior Iranian officials has metastasized, drawing missile and drone attacks across the Middle East and narrowing any near-term path back to diplomacy. The Feb. 28 strike on a heavily guarded compound in central Tehran came just two days after U.S. and Iranian negotiators had publicly signaled progress in a third round of nuclear talks in Geneva. Within hours of the attack, U.S. President Donald Trump announced on social media that Iran’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint military operation with Israel. Iranian state media confirmed the death about four hours later, saying the 86-year-old was killed in his office.
China has included several natural gas pipelines with Russia in the draft of its new five-year plan, raising market debate on whether the Power of Siberia 2 – a closely watched project viewed as symbolic of bilateral relations – could be on the fast track for construction. Along with language on two other pipelines, the draft said China would “advance preparatory work for the central route of the ...
China has included several natural gas pipelines with Russia in the draft of its new five-year plan, raising market debate on whether the Power of Siberia 2 – a closely watched project viewed as symbolic of bilateral relations – could be on the fast track for construction. Along with language on two other pipelines, the draft said China would “advance preparatory work for the central route of the China-Russia natural gas pipeline” in the next five years, which some market observers interpreted as being related to the Power of Siberia 2, which would also pass through Mongolia. However, some analysts said a completion date remained distant in the absence of public agreement between Beijing and Moscow on certain details. Advertisement The draft version of the country’s development blueprint for 2026 to 2030, released last week during the annual session of China’s top legislature, did not elaborate further. Aleksei Chigadaev, an associate fellow at New Eurasian Strategies Centre, said several issues needed resolving before work on the whole pipeline could kick off, including the exact stakes of Russia’s Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the two state-owned energy giants spearheading the project. Advertisement Also, questions remained over who would pay for the construction and what price would be agreed for the gas sent through the pipeline, he added. “It is a very long, capital-intensive project that will take many years to complete,” Chigadaev said.
Iraq's World Cup play-off decider later this month should be postponed amid the escalating US-Israeli war with Iran, says the team's head coach Graham Arnold. The Iraqis are set to face either Bolivia or Suriname in the Mexican city of Monterrey on 31 March, with the winner of the inter-continental play-off booking their place in the 2026 World Cup to be held in the United States, Mexico and Canad...
Iraq's World Cup play-off decider later this month should be postponed amid the escalating US-Israeli war with Iran, says the team's head coach Graham Arnold. The Iraqis are set to face either Bolivia or Suriname in the Mexican city of Monterrey on 31 March, with the winner of the inter-continental play-off booking their place in the 2026 World Cup to be held in the United States, Mexico and Canada from 11 June. But Iraq are concerned they might not be able to get their players and staff over to Mexico for the match because of the travel disruption in the Middle East, triggered by the conflict in neighbouring Iran. Iraqi airspace has been closed since 28 February when the first US-Israeli strikes began and Iran responded by firing missiles and drones at Israel, Gulf states and other nearby countries. Arnold, who became Iraq manager in May 2025, said putting together a team solely with players based outside Iraq would hinder the country's chances of qualifying for their first World Cup since 1986. "It wouldn't be our best team and we need our best team for the country's biggest game in 40 years," the Australian said. "The Iraqi people are so passionate about the game that it is insane. The fact that they haven't qualified for 40 years is probably the main reason I took this job. "But at this stage with the airport being shut down we are working hard to try and find another alternative."
As a new report reveals career ‘apartheid’ in newsrooms, I and many others wonder if the fine promises will ever bring genuine change There’s a generally accepted ethical requirement for news organisations to reflect society, both in terms of the content they produce and the people who produce it. Unfortunately, this is just not happening. Look, for example, at the new study released this week by ...
As a new report reveals career ‘apartheid’ in newsrooms, I and many others wonder if the fine promises will ever bring genuine change There’s a generally accepted ethical requirement for news organisations to reflect society, both in terms of the content they produce and the people who produce it. Unfortunately, this is just not happening. Look, for example, at the new study released this week by the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity revealing a DEI backlash in British journalism , with one respondent describing their office as an “apartheid newsroom” . Look, too, at the Press Awards , said to showcase “the best of national journalism in the UK”, and notably the individual awards shortlists. Search for the Black journalists in them. You’ll struggle. Diversity was clearly not a priority: several categories, including news reporter of the year, feature only men. As the head of journalism and strategic communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, this all makes my heart sink. Dr Omega Douglas is an academic and writer. Her latest book The Racial Dynamics of Reporting Africa: Colonial and Decolonial Practices is Mainstream Western News Media is published by Routledge. Continue reading...
Defeat in Italy confirmed this is a fast-developing crisis with supporters watching a team stuck on the boulevard of broken dreams Even before the final weekend unfolds the 2026 Six Nations can be adjudged already as a vintage one. Three teams mathematically remain in the title race and all of them are still full of running. Whether it is France, Ireland or Scotland who ultimately pull clear, an e...
Defeat in Italy confirmed this is a fast-developing crisis with supporters watching a team stuck on the boulevard of broken dreams Even before the final weekend unfolds the 2026 Six Nations can be adjudged already as a vintage one. Three teams mathematically remain in the title race and all of them are still full of running. Whether it is France, Ireland or Scotland who ultimately pull clear, an eventful championship this year will be remembered fondly by almost everybody. For every beaming winner, though, there inevitably has to be a frustrated, bruised loser. And to put it mildly things have not unfolded in the way England were hoping just a few short weeks ago. “On 14 March in Paris we want to be in a position entering that game where we can achieve what we’re all aiming to achieve,” Steve Borthwick said on 23 January. “We want England fans flooding across the Channel to watch the team in a massive encounter in the final round with the opportunity to achieve what we want.” Continue reading...
Max Dowman and Rio Ngumoha staked their claim for more game time while Fulham paid for a lack of ambition Port Vale have only ever reached the last eight of the FA Cup once before in their entire history, in 1953-54, when they went one stage further, losing the semi-final at Villa Park 2-1 to West Brom thanks to a much-disputed winning goal. If only VAR had been present then, you might say. In the...
Max Dowman and Rio Ngumoha staked their claim for more game time while Fulham paid for a lack of ambition Port Vale have only ever reached the last eight of the FA Cup once before in their entire history, in 1953-54, when they went one stage further, losing the semi-final at Villa Park 2-1 to West Brom thanks to a much-disputed winning goal. If only VAR had been present then, you might say. In their fifth-round victory over Sunderland this weekend, they were also unfortunate despite the presence of technology. Why was referee Anthony Taylor not asked to go and check the TV monitor when George Hall was cynically taken out by the Sunderland goalkeeper Melkor Ellberg, just outside the penalty area with the match on a knife-edge? Even if the striker’s run was going away from goal, he surely had the pace to have got a shot away. Let’s hope VAR give the remaining lower-division teams fair shrift when it comes to the rest of the competition. Peter Lansley Match report: Port Vale 1-0 Sunderland Match report: Mansfield Town 1-2 Arsenal Match report: Newcastle 1-3 Manchester City Match report: Wrexham 2-4 Chelsea (aet) Match report: Wolves 1-3 Liverpool Match report: Fulham 0-1 Southampton Continue reading...
The Bavarian band known for a love of tinkering embraced a fresh ethos, ditching remote collaboration for a collective recording done in a week ‘It all went so fast,” Markus Acher says. “We’ve never been this fast at making a record.” He is sitting at the far end of a sofa in the Notwist’s Munich studio. On the other end is his brother Micha Acher; next to them, Cico Beck, who joined the band in 2...
The Bavarian band known for a love of tinkering embraced a fresh ethos, ditching remote collaboration for a collective recording done in a week ‘It all went so fast,” Markus Acher says. “We’ve never been this fast at making a record.” He is sitting at the far end of a sofa in the Notwist’s Munich studio. On the other end is his brother Micha Acher; next to them, Cico Beck, who joined the band in 2014, balances on a stool. For a group known for meticulous studio craft, speed is an unfamiliar sensation. For most of their career, the Notwist have worked slowly, layering, revising, rethinking, as if wary of committing too soon to anything at all. Formed in 1989 in the Bavarian town of Weilheim, the Notwist began as a heavy metal trio before evolving, over the next decade, into one of Germany’s most distinctive bands. Their breakthrough album, Neon Golden (2002), married indie songwriting to electronic textures, shaped largely by then-member Martin Gretschmann, also known as Console or Acid Pauli, in a way that felt inward-looking and strangely expansive. Its influence travelled far beyond Germany, securing the band a place in the canon of early-2000s indie experimentalism. Pitchfork named Neon Golden one of the best albums of the 2000s. Continue reading...
With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era Train Dreams is arguably the lowest-profile of all the Oscar best film nominees, and could have easily passed me by, destined instead to be lost in the sprawling Netflix library, if it weren’t for...
With its meditative pace and sincere interest in moral questions, Clint Bentley’s film of a rudderless man cutting down trees in Idaho’s verdant vistas has the air of a Hollywood classic from another era Train Dreams is arguably the lowest-profile of all the Oscar best film nominees, and could have easily passed me by, destined instead to be lost in the sprawling Netflix library, if it weren’t for a phone call with a friend last year. She had just watched one of last year’s big films – which carried famous names, plenty of hype, and promised to generate lots of debate – and emerged feeling despondent about it as well as the state of cinema. It was a film that, like so many she had recently encountered, contained only empty provocations that amounted to nothing. “I don’t want to sound like a cliche,” she said, “but I believe this was all better in the 1970s!” Train Dreams was one of the few films of the year she had enjoyed. So I came into Train Dreams, Clint Bentley’s adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella, with that idea in mind: that it was a thing out of step with our time and possibly better for it, too. Immediately, its use of a kindly voiced omniscient narrator recalled Hollywood classics of the late 20th century. Our voice of God drops us into Bonners Ferry, Idaho, in the early 1900s, to the life of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), a man who drifts through his first two decades without much purpose before he falls in love with the free-spirited Gladys (Felicity Jones). Continue reading...
The showpiece festival is a key indicator of the state of racing and leading storylines can offer timely lift amid concern over health of the sport In the long-forgotten time, about 30 years or so ago, when the Cheltenham festival was a three-day get-together for country types, no one gave much thought to attendance figures, the price of beer or maximising the customer experience. It was a coming ...
The showpiece festival is a key indicator of the state of racing and leading storylines can offer timely lift amid concern over health of the sport In the long-forgotten time, about 30 years or so ago, when the Cheltenham festival was a three-day get-together for country types, no one gave much thought to attendance figures, the price of beer or maximising the customer experience. It was a coming together of the National Hunt clans, much anticipated and hugely enjoyed but not, in the grand scheme, an event with a story to tell about the overall health of the sport. But not any more. The state of the Cheltenham festival is a key indicator of the state of the racing nation as a whole, and perhaps more so than ever this year, as the sport heads to Gloucestershire rudderless after Lord Allen, who took over as chair of the British Horseracing Authority just six months ago, turned out to be a temporary hire. There is even talk of schism in the dysfunctional racing family, as the showpiece tracks, Cheltenham included, demand change “to ensure that significant views from key racecourses can influence outcomes”. Continue reading...
With the prospect of National Rugby League investment in Super League – however that may look, and with whatever level of control the Australian authorities want to overhaul the British game – now at boiling point, there has been a lot of discussion lately about what Super League does, and perhaps does not, need. That debate will rage in the coming weeks but what is surely beyond doubt is that, fo...
With the prospect of National Rugby League investment in Super League – however that may look, and with whatever level of control the Australian authorities want to overhaul the British game – now at boiling point, there has been a lot of discussion lately about what Super League does, and perhaps does not, need. That debate will rage in the coming weeks but what is surely beyond doubt is that, for the competition to be at its most appealing, it needs its strongest clubs to thrive. Underdog stories are compelling, and we have had plenty of those in the past few years; they create great sporting drama and fresh narratives for the powerbrokers to sell. But what will drive Super League forward – with or without NRL investment – is the might of its heavyweight sides. Few fit that billing quite like Leeds who, after a fairly tepid few seasons, are beginning to show they could be in a position to reclaim their spot at the summit of the British game, both on and off the field. For more than 10 years Leeds were the team to beat. Having won eight Super League titles in 13 years, however, around the turn of the decade their influence began to wane. But with Super League going through a set of rule changes in the off-season, with quicker and better policed rucks designed to make for a faster, free‑flowing game, it looks to be Leeds and Wigan who are flourishing the most, illustrated best by the Rhinos’ dismantling of the champions, Hull KR, in Las Vegas last week. The game on Sunday was not at the same heights as the match at Allegiant Stadium, as Leeds muscled their way past a spirited Castleford thanks largely to a hat-trick from Maika Sivo. There was undoubtedly an element of Vegas fatigue in this performance but, under Brad Arthur, Leeds have the hallmark of a side ready to compete for silverware again. Last season was a year of progression; having missed the playoffs in each of the previous two seasons, Leeds returned to the top four before a surprise home defeat...
‘I wish that by plucking a single hair you would get more to grow back,” says Desmond Tobin, professor of dermatological science at University College Dublin. “It would be a great solution for people who are thinning and unhappy about it.” Unfortunately, it’s a myth. Our scalp is covered in follicles – essentially tiny hair factories – and each one produces just a single hair shaft. Plucking a hai...
‘I wish that by plucking a single hair you would get more to grow back,” says Desmond Tobin, professor of dermatological science at University College Dublin. “It would be a great solution for people who are thinning and unhappy about it.” Unfortunately, it’s a myth. Our scalp is covered in follicles – essentially tiny hair factories – and each one produces just a single hair shaft. Plucking a hair won’t cause multiple hairs to grow from the same follicle. In fact, repeatedly pulling hairs out can have the opposite effect. Over time, the damage may mean the hair never grows back at all. Tobin points to the ultra-thin eyebrow trend of the 1990s and early 2000s, when many people overplucked and found their follicles simply stopped producing hair. “They weren’t getting two for every one,” he says. “They were actually getting none.” double quotation mark Grey hair isn’t necessarily a negative development. It often grows just as well as – and sometimes better than – pigmented hair Damage is the key issue. “You may fracture the hair as you pluck it, or pull it out by the root,” Tobin explains. “Sometimes when you see tiny blood droplets on the skin, you know you’ve removed the entire follicle and it will not recover.” Is there anything you can do to discourage grey hairs from appearing? It is largely genetic, says Tobin. Looking at close relatives can give you a sense of what to expect. That said, chronic stress, poor sleep and nutritional deficiencies may accelerate aspects of biological ageing, including changes in the hair. Still, grey hair isn’t necessarily a negative development. It often grows just as well as – and sometimes better than – pigmented hair. Men with salt-and-pepper beards, for example, frequently notice that white hairs grow longer between shaves. “There seems to be a preferential growth-rate advantage to white and grey hair,” says Tobin.
Listen to Odd Lots on Apple Podcasts Listen to Odd Lots on Spotify Watch Odd Lots on YouTube Subscribe to the newsletter Last year, we had Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the podcast to talk to us about his company's plans to tokenize shares of private companies. The idea is that retail investors want to participate in hot names like OpenAI and SpaceX, and that tokenizing private equity would allow th...
Listen to Odd Lots on Apple Podcasts Listen to Odd Lots on Spotify Watch Odd Lots on YouTube Subscribe to the newsletter Last year, we had Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on the podcast to talk to us about his company's plans to tokenize shares of private companies. The idea is that retail investors want to participate in hot names like OpenAI and SpaceX, and that tokenizing private equity would allow this to happen. Right after our episode though, a number of companies expressed frustration at the idea, saying that they were not voluntarily participating in the plan. So where do things stand now? And how is Robinhood thinking about how it will play in the red hot prediction market space? On this episode, Vlad returns to talk about where things stand, and all of the company's new efforts to give retail traders even more instruments to use.