The world’s debt currently exceeds $86,000 per person on average, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The US, China, and Japan are the top three global borrowers, accounting for more than half of the global debt.
The IMF has calculated that their share of debt exceeds that of output. It stated that the emergence of China among the top ranking is, however, a relatively new development. Since the beginning of the millennium, China’s share in global debt surged from less than three percent to over 15 percent, underscoring the rapid credit surge in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
https://www.rt.com/business/446526-global-debt-hits-record/
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Police are looking for a woman, who bears a striking resemblance to Prime Minister Theresa May, in connection with the theft of money from a cash machine outside a Hertfordshire supermarket.
Hertfordshire police want to speak to a woman with an uncanny resemblance to the PM, after another woman was seen withdrawing money from a cash machine, outside a Tesco Express in Bushey Heath, but accidentally left it behind. It was then quickly snapped up by the May lookalike, the Mirror reports.
https://www.rt.com/uk/446484-may-lookalike-crime-stolen/
Singer Taylor Swift has sparked privacy and surveillance fears after secretly filming fans, using facial recognition software in a bid to detect stalkers on her concert tour.
Swift allegedly hid the facial-recognition camera inside a kiosk displaying rehearsal clips at her May 18 show at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California, according to Rolling Stone.
Pictures of fans’ faces were taken while they gazed at the screen before being reportedly sent to a “command post” in Nashville, where they were cross-referenced with a database of “hundreds” of the singer’s known stalkers.
“Everybody who went by would stop and stare at it, and the software would start working,” said Mike Downing, chief security officer of Oak View Group, an entertainment and sports facilities company for concert venues like Madison Square Garden and the Forum in Los Angeles, to the renowned music magazine.
https://www.rt.com/usa/446478-taylor-swift-face-recognition/
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