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The consumer price index for December 2021 was expected to increase 7% from a year ago, according to economists surveyed by Dow Jones.

Wall Street shook off the highest consumer price index increase in nearly 40 years on Wednesday.

Natural gas has started 2022 on a bang with a gain of nearly 30%.

Once the omicron surge abates, countries should expect "far fewer cases" of Covid through the rest of 2022, making the disease far more manageable, Bill Gates wrote on Tuesday.

"The sheer volume of cases is putting a burden on health-care systems," said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's technical lead on Covid-19.

Prince Andrew had been a longtime friend of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, whom dozens of women say sexually abused them as girls.

The bombshell revelation has prompted an enormous public backlash and destabilized Johnson's premiership once again.

European stocks closed higher on Wednesday as investors monitored the latest reading of U.S. inflation data.

There are growing calls in Europe for the coronavirus to be treated as an endemic illness, like the flu, as politicians ache for a return to normality.

Seba Bank CEO Guido Buehler told CNBC that bitcoin's price could rise to between $50,000 and $75,000 in 2022.

The U.K. could be one of the first countries to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to one leading scientist.

Novak Djokovic has admitted to making an "error of judgement" by attending an interview and photoshoot with a French newspaper after testing positive for Covid-19 last month.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that he expects a series of interest rate hikes this year.

Jobs website Glassdoor compiled rankings of the best companies to work for in the U.K. in 2022.

China's consumer and producer price index for December were released on Wednesday.

Goldman Sachs cut its 2022 forecast for China's economic growth Tuesday in expectation of increased restrictions on business activity to contain omicron.

A trove of internal documents released by a former employee sparked a series of hearings and public outrage against the company.

Global growth is expected to slow from 5.5% in 2021 to 4.1% in 2022 and 3.2% in 2023 as more nations start unwinding policy support, the World Bank said.

On Wednesday NATO members will meet with top Russian officials in Belgium to discuss ways to prevent a fresh conflict over Ukraine.

The court filing also said the government will dismiss counts 3, 4 and 5 of the indictment in which the jury deadlocked on.