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Despite its vast mangrove forests, tea plantation-covered hills and record-breaking beaches, Bangladesh remains a blank spot on the map for most tourists. According to the Bangladesh Tourism Board, the South Asian country welcomed just 650,000 foreign tourists in 2024, a fraction of the number of neighboring countries such as India and Sri Lanka. Bangladesh has historically struggled to emerge as a mainstream travel destination, despite the country’s natural treasures and urban attractions of more than 170 million people. “I think there’s an unconscious connection between this country and natural disasters. We only hear about this country for the wrong reasons,”…

Futures and options traders work on the NYSE American (AMEX) floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 15, 2026 in New York City, USA. Brendan McDiarmid | ReutersStock futures rose Friday morning as gains in banks and tech stocks lifted major averages.S&P500 futures Although it increased by 0.29%, Dow Jones Industrial Average Futures increased by 78 points (0.16%). Nasdaq 100 futures It increased by 0.44%.Major US stock indexes rebounded across the board in regular trading on Thursday. of S&P500 and Nasdaq Composite Each stock rose nearly 0.3%, but 30 stocks rose by nearly 0.3%. Dow Added 0.6%. small…

Beijing — For China, the record annual trade surplus of $1.2 trillion that authorities reported Wednesday is strong evidence of its economy’s resilience in the face of U.S. trade tensions. But this historical figure also tells a different story. It’s one possibility that China’s massive export engine could reshape the global economy and help China gain more leverage in its competition with the United States. Whether that engine can keep running at its current speed, with a 20% surplus in 2025 compared to the previous year, is uncertain and will depend on the extent to which countries continue to erect…

Suzette Quintanilla and Chris Perez reveal the secret behind Selena Quintanilla’s iconic Grammys lookSelena Quintanilla’s loved ones are still dreaming of her. And after visiting the Grammy Museum’s new exhibit, “Selena: From Texas to the World,” and seeing the iconic sparkling dress the queen of Tejano music wore to the 1994 Grammy Awards, husband Chris Perez and sister Suzette Quintanilla were struck by a long-forgotten memory. “I’m looking at the costumes,” Chris told E! News during the museum’s Jan. 14 event. “We were just gushing because we weren’t really thinking about the Grammys dress in particular. But when we saw…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer suggested Thursday that the company had a strong quarter this year. taiwan semiconductor Wall Street renewed confidence in artificial intelligence stocks, including industry leaders Nvidia. “The Taiwanese cicada has thoroughly crushed the skeptics who have questioned the staying power of AI,” he said. “They said something we’ve only heard from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: The demand is insatiable, and more importantly, the benefits could be huge for customers.”Taiwan Semiconductor, the world’s largest contract chip maker, exceeded expectations, setting a new record and reporting a 35% increase in profits. The company has currently recorded eight consecutive quarters of…

Riccardo Milani AFP | Getty ImagesWikimedia announced new deals with several artificial intelligence companies in a blog post Thursday. Amazon, Meta and Perplexity as part of the company’s 25th anniversary celebration.Through a new partnership under Wikimedia Enterprises, companies will pay Wikipedia to use its data to develop and train AI models instead of web scraping. partnership with Amazon, Meta, microsoftMistral AI and Perplexity were formalized last year, but have not been shared publicly, Wikimedia said.”All of these organizations rely on Wikimedia Enterprise to integrate human-managed knowledge into their platforms at scale,” Wikimedia said in a release.The technology company joins existing…

When Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Colina Machado entered the White House on Thursday, she came with the Nobel Peace Prize in hand, a gift that U.S. President Donald Trump has long coveted. Machado, a fierce critic of former Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro, won the award last year for his campaign for greater democracy. Now she has left her medal at the White House, hoping that her act might lead her to do something even more valuable: the United States helping her fight to usher in Venezuela’s post-Maduro future. But if she thought this gift might encourage the president to support…

5. Pussycat DollIt was Anne who ultimately sent Harry his X Factor application when he got cold. “People say I’m a good singer, and it’s usually my mom,” said the 16-year-old, who was already charming when he auditioned for The X Factor in spring 2010 and performed an a cappella rendition of Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely.” “Singing is something I want to do, and if the people who can make it happen think I shouldn’t sing, that’s a huge setback to my plans.” Well, they did and they didn’t. Harry didn’t stay in the last boy group, or even…

CNBC’s Jim Cramer praised Thursday. morgan stanley and goldman sachssuggesting the financial giant is worth more than the price it’s currently trading at.”These aren’t temporary roller coaster companies. They’re granite, tungsten and even solid,” he said. “Yet they’re selling at a much lower multiple than Colgate or Procter & Gamble or the average stock price of the S&P 500. That’s a travesty.”Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs released their quarterly reports on Thursday, successfully impressing Wall Street. The performance of both banks was boosted by strength in wealth management. Each company set new 52-week highs, with Morgan Stanley up 5.78% and…

China’s artificial intelligence models may be just “months” behind U.S. and Western capabilities, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis told CNBC.The director of one of the world’s leading AI research institutes and a key promoter behind Google’s Gemini assistant’s assessment goes against views that suggest China remains far behind. On CNBC’s new podcast, “The Tech Download,” launched Friday, Hassabis said China’s AI models are closer to the capabilities of the United States and the West than “we probably thought a year or two ago.””They’re probably just a few months behind at this point,” Hassabis told The Tech Download. About a year…